Install Guide

Configure VMware hosts to access SC Series arrays with SAS FE ports
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3.8 Create datastores and configure Multipath settings
This section covers connecting vSphere hosts to storage presented from SC Series SAS FE arrays. Steps are
provided for both environments managed by VMware vCenter, as well as standalone host environments.
Note: Mapping volumes to VMware vSphere clusters or stand-alone VMware vSphere hosts one at a time
helps to properly correlate volumes to datastores.
3.8.1 vCenter environment
VMware vCenter is an enterprise management platform used to manage multiple VMware vSphere hosts
through a single application. The interface used to connect to and manage a vCenter environment is the
VMware vSphere Web Client.
The following steps were used to connect to storage mapped from an SC Series array and create a new
datastore from that storage when in a vCenter-managed environment. Configuration of the native VMware
MPIO is covered as well.
3.8.1.1 Connect to mapped storage
1. From the vSphere Web Client, click Hosts and Clusters and then select a host.
2. In the Configure tab, click Storage > Storage Adapters and then select the SAS HBA adapter. In
this case, the SAS HBA is Dell 12Gb SAS HBA.
3. Click the Rescan Adapter icon.
4. Following the rescan of the SAS HBA, the new storage appears on the Devices tab under Adapter
Details.