HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Installation Guide

From the vSphere Client, the Storage Module for vCenter enables you to do the following:
• Monitor the status and health of HP storage arrays.
• Understand the relationships between physical storage and virtual objects.
VM—VM to datastore mapping and VM to raw device mapping◦
◦ Datastore—Datastore to physical device mapping and datastore to VM mapping
◦ RDM—RDM to physical device mapping and RDM to VM mapping
• Manage LUN and volume connections from VMs, datastores, and hosts (ESX servers) to HP
storage arrays.
• Provision storage on supported HP storage arrays.
• Take advantage of VASA storage API features.
The Storage Module for vCenter supports the VASA storage API from VMware. The VASA API
provides visibility into the physical storage infrastructure through vCenter. VASA capabilities
are supported for HP StoreVirtual, HP EVA, HP MSA P2000 G3, and HP XP arrays.
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