Manually Registering the FlashArray VASA Providers with the vCenter UI

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Alternatively, VMware administrators can use the vCenter Web Client, PowerCLI, and other CLI and API tools to register VASA providers. This section describes registration of FlashArray providers with the vCenter Web Client and with PowerCLI.

Finding the FlashArray Controller IP Addresses

Prior to registration, use the FlashArray GUI or CLI to obtain the IP addresses of both controllers’ eth0 management ports.

Click Settings in the GUI navigation pane, and select the Network tab to display the array’s management port IP addresses

FlashArray GUI Network Tab - Management IP Addresses 


pureuser@sn1-x70-c05-33> purenetwork list ct0.eth0,ct1.eth0
Name      Enabled  Subnet  Address       Mask           Gateway      MTU   MAC                Speed      Services    Subinterfaces
ct0.eth0  True     -       10.21.149.22  255.255.255.0  10.21.149.1  1500  24:a9:37:01:f2:de  1.00 Gb/s  management  -
ct1.eth0  True     -       10.21.149.23  255.255.255.0  10.21.149.1  1500  24:a9:37:02:0b:8e  1.00 Gb/s  management  -

FlashArray CLI - Management IP Addresses

Registering the Storage Provider in vCenter

After the management IPs for the FlashArray are gathered head over to the vCenter UI and run through the following workflow to register the storage providers.

  1. Navigate to the either the Hosts/Datacenters, VMs, Storage or Network page.
  2. Select the vCenter Server to register the storage providers with.
  3. Navigate to the Configure and click Storage Providers under more.
  4. Click on the Add Button

  5. Register CT0's storage provider

    Name

    • A friendly name for the VASA provider. A best practice is to use names that make operational sense (for example, array name concatenated with controller number).

    URL

    • The URL of the controller’s VASA provider in the form: https://<controllerIP>:8084. HTTPS (not HTTP) is required, the controller’s IP address must be specified, unless a custom cert with a FQDN in the Subjective Alternative Name is used, and port 8084 is required

    Credentials

    • Credentials for an administrator of the target array. Best practice is to use a local array user and not the default user (pureuser). The user name entered is associated with VASA operations in future audit logs.
  6. Register CT1's storage provider

    Name

    • A friendly name for the VASA provider. A best practice is to use names that make operational sense (for example, array name concatenated with controller number).

    URL

    • The URL of the controller’s VASA provider in the form: https://<controllerIP>:8084. HTTPS (not HTTP) is required, the controller’s IP address must be specified (not its FQDN), and port 8084 is required

    Credentials

    • Credentials for an administrator of the target array. Best practice is to use a local array user and not the default user (pureuser). The user name entered is associated with VASA operations in future audit logs.

    Please ensure that both CT0 and CT1's storage providers are registered.