A protocol endpoint (PE) is a logical I/O proxy that establishes the data path between the ESXi hosts and FlashArray for vVols. Establishing this connection at the FlashArray level is a simple, but required step before the VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Domain can be successfully deployed.
As mentioned earlier, it is expected that the ESXi hosts to be used in the Workload Domain have been added to the FlashArray and their WWNs have been associated with that host object. Another required step is to create a Host Group and add those hosts to it.
From there, select the Host Group (1), click on the radio button under Connected Volumes and click on the Connect... button (2).
Click the checkbox next to pure-protocol-endpoint (1) and then click Connect (2) to complete the operation.
Inspect the Host Group to confirm that the pure-protocol-endpoint has been successfully connected to it.
Alternatively, the Purity CLI can be used to connect the PE to a Host Group via the following command, which also provides confirmation of PE connectivity to each host within the host group:
pureuser@FlashArray> purevol connect --hgroup VCF-Sisters pure-protocol-endpoint
Name Host Group Host LUN
pure-protocol-endpoint VCF-Sisters sn1-m5-ch1-05 254
pure-protocol-endpoint VCF-Sisters sn1-m5-ch1-06 254
pure-protocol-endpoint VCF-Sisters sn1-m5-ch1-07 254Now that the PE has been connected to the host group, we can move forward with commissioning the ESXi hosts into SDDC Manager for use.