Diagram 1: FlashBlade Integration 2.0 Phase 1 overview workflow showing claim, validation, target visibility, and inventory branches.
Diagram 1 provides a high-level view of the Phase 1 user flow. After a FlashBlade target is claimed and validated in Intersight, it becomes visible in the Targets list and serves as the entry point to the initial inventory experience, including system-level visibility and key object and hardware views such as object storage accounts and blades.
What's New in Phase 1
With this release,
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Target claiming: Users can claim a Everpure FlashBlade target through the Intersight “Claim a New Target” workflow using FlashBlade-specific connection details and authentication inputs.
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Immediate visibility: After a successful claim, the FlashBlade target appears in the Targets list with health, connection status, target type, claimed time, and claimed-by information.
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Target details: Users can open the target details page to view overall health, connection state, identification data, and recent events for the claimed FlashBlade system.
Figure 1 below shows the FlashBlade target type selection in the Claim a New Target flow.
Figure 1: Claim Everpure FlashBlade Target form in the “Claim a New Target” flow.
Figure 2: Claim Everpure FlashBlade Target form in the "Claim a New Target" flow.
After a successful claim, the FlashBlade target appears in the Targets list with health, connection status, target type, claimed time, and claimed-by information, giving operators immediate confirmation that the system has been onboarded correctly.
Figure 3: Targets list page showing all claimed targets, including FlashBlade.
Users can then open the target details page to view overall health, connection state, identification data, and recent events for the claimed FlashBlade system.
Figure 4: Target details page for a specific FlashBlade target.
Inventory and Visibility Delivered in Phase 1
Phase 1 also introduces the initial FlashBlade inventory experience inside the Storage domain.
Users can view shared storage inventory, drill into FlashBlade systems for more detailed inventory views, and navigate key logical and hardware entities including file systems, object storage accounts, buckets, and blades.
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Shared storage grid: A shared storage inventory grid provides an at-a-glance view of discovered storage systems, including both FlashBlade and FlashArray, with health, model, software version, capacity, and utilization.
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Detailed views: Users can drill into a FlashBlade detailed view that summarizes overall health, usable capacity, hardware context, and major logical entities such as file systems and object storage accounts.
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File Systems: Grid and detailed views enable operators to review capacity, data reduction, promotion state, writability, and creation details for each file system.
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Object Storage Accounts: Grid and detailed views are available, along with bucket- and user-level projections for a selected account.
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Buckets: Grid and detailed views allow operators to inspect usage, object counts, bucket type, versioning state, and related metadata.
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Blades: Hardware inventory includes grid and detail pages for reviewing blade health and raw capacity for each FlashBlade system.
Figure 5: Storage grid view showing FlashArray and FlashBlade systems in the Storage UI.
From that landing view, users can drill into a FlashBlade detailed view that summarizes overall health, usable capacity, hardware context, and major logical entities such as file systems and object storage accounts.
Figure 6: FlashBlade General overview
The release includes File Systems inventory with both grid and detailed views, enabling operators to review capacity, data reduction, promotion state, writability, and creation details for each file system.
Figure 7: FlashBlade FileSystems Grid View
Figure 8: FlashBlade FileSystems Detailed View
It also includes Object Storage Accounts inventory with grid and detailed views, along with bucket- and user-level projections for a selected account.
Figure 9: FlashBlade Object Store Accounts Grid View
Figure 10: FlashBlade Object Store General Detailed View
Figure 11: FlashBlade Object Store Account-Bucket Grid View
Figure 12: FlashBlade Object Store Account-Users Grid View
At the Bucket Level, Phase 1 adds both grid and detailed views so operators can inspect usage, object counts, bucket type, versioning state, and related metadata.
Figure 13: FlashBlade Bucket Grid View
Figure 14: FlashBlade Bucket Detailed View
For hardware visibility, the release includes Blades inventory with grid and detail pages so teams can review blade health and raw capacity for each FlashBlade system.
Figure 15: FlashBlade Blades Grid View
Figure 16: FlashBlade Blades Detailed View