{"id":3255,"date":"2014-12-04T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2014-12-04T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:52:43","slug":"vsphere-5-5-the-isilon-nas-vaai-plugin-part-2-v1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vsphere-5-5-the-isilon-nas-vaai-plugin-part-2-v1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere 5.5 &#038; the Isilon NAS VAAI Plugin \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 v1.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have vSphere 5.0\/5.1 and have waited to upgrade to 5.5, at least in part because you have some Isilon NFS datastores, you wait is over.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, an updated vSphere VAAI plugin for use with Isilon storage (NFS) was released recently.<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the updated plugin from <strong><a title=\"EMC Support\" href=\"http:\/\/support.emc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMC&#8217;s Support Site<\/a><\/strong>. Looking at the release notes, OneFS 7.1.0 is the minimum version of OneFS supported.<\/p>\n<p>The installation process is the same as a previous post\u00a0(<strong><a title=\"Configuring the EMC Isilon NAS VAAI Plugin for vSphere 5.0\/5.1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=2561\">Configuring the EMC Isilon NAS VAAI Plugin for vSphere 5.0\/5.1<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>In my lab, tried it out on a OneFS 7.2.0 virtual cluster&#8230; After a host reboot, I see VAAI is supported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3258 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2-300x46.png\" alt=\"isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2\" width=\"300\" height=\"46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2-300x46.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2-1024x159.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2-900x140.png 900w, https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/isilon-nfs-vaai-1.2.png 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t tried the plugin with vSphere 5.0 or 5.1.<\/p>\n<p>I know that EMC and VMware worked together for a while to validate this package, and I&#8217;m glad to see it has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have vSphere 5.0\/5.1 and have waited to upgrade to 5.5, at least in part because you have some Isilon NFS datastores, you wait &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[35,47,58,138],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage-2","category-virtualization","tag-emc","tag-isilon","tag-nfs","tag-vaai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}