vSphere Plugin: Importing FlashArray Protection Groups as SPBM Policies with the Everpure vSphere Plugin (5.1.1 and lower workflow)

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vSphere Plugin 4.5.0 through 5.1.1

  1. From the main plugin page, select the FlashArray to import the protection group settings and click on Import Protection Groups

  1. Select the vCenters in which you would like the polic(ies) to be created.
  1. Choose one or more protection groups. The selected protection groups will be used as "templates" to create vVol storage policies.
  1. In the next screen, you can enter in a name for the policies. It will default to the protection group name, but you can change it as needed here.

Note that it will prevent you from using a name that is in-use in one or more of the vCenters:

  1. The last screen offers two optional settings.
    1. Require array match: This will add the selected FlashArray into the policy and doing so will make sure that only storage from that specific FlashArray comply with the policy. This option maps to the FlashArray Group capability.
    2. Require protection group match: This will add the selected protection group name into the policy and doing so will make sure that only arrays with the specific protection group configuration AND name will comply with the policy. This option maps to the Consistency Group Name capability.
Note:

These settings will be configured uniformly for each selected protection group in the wizard, so if you want to configure the resultant policies differently, run through the wizard more than once, selecting the specific protection groups each time. Note a given protection group can be imported more than once as the source protection groups are used a templates for policies, but there is no strict one-to-one mapping.

Complete the process after confirming the selections on the final screen.

Note that policies do not span vCenters, so the policy will be created once per selected vCenter in the wizard.

If you selected the Require array match option in the wizard you will see the array name populated in the policy:

If you selected the Require protection group match option in the wizard you will see the protection group name populated in the policy:

vSphere Plugin 4.4.0 and Earlier

  1. From the main plugin page, select the FlashArray to import the protection group settings and click on "Import Protection Groups"

  2. The screen that shows up next will list the FlashArray protection groups. In the parentheses the schedule and capabilities of the protection group will be listed. In the event that a Storage Policy in vCenter already matches the FlashArray pgroup schedule the option to select that pgroup will be grayed out. Select the policy or policies and click Import.

  3. Navigate to "Policies and Profiles" and click on the VM Storage Policies tab. From here you will see that the Storage Policies have been created. The naming schema for these policies will be [FlashArray] [either Snapshot or Replication] [Schedule Interval]. Below there is a Replication and Snapshot policy shown.