{"id":4351,"date":"2023-10-11T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2023-10-12T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:00:24","slug":"add-pure-to-vsan-p3-vvols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/add-pure-to-vsan-p3-vvols\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I add Pure Storage FlashArray to vSAN or VxRail? – Part 3 vVols"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Part 2<\/a>, I covered how to add Pure Storage backed iSCSI datastores to vSAN or VxRail.<\/p>\n

Many of VMware’s customers have looked to utilize Virtual Volumes, or vVols, to provide the same Storage Policy Based Management capabilities that vSAN\/VxRail provide, but when using external storage such as Pure Storage FlashArray.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of Pure Storage and vVols posts on Cody Hosterman’s site<\/a>, Alex Carver’s site<\/a>, David Stamen’s site<\/a>, my site<\/a>, and purestorage.com<\/a>, so I won’t go into the great things that vVols can do here.<\/p>\n

Register the FlashArray for vVols<\/h2>\n

The Pure Storage Plugin for VMware vSphere makes it easy to register FlashArray for the VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) use case.<\/p>\n

Simply choose Register Storage Provider in the Pure Storage Plugin.
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And provide appropriate credentials\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now you’re ready to add a vVols Datastore.<\/p>\n

Creating\/Adding a vVols Datastore<\/h2>\n

The Pure Storage Plugin for VMware vSphere makes the process of adding a vVol datastore very easy.<\/p>\n

Right click on the cluster you’d like to create a vVol datastore on, choose the Pure Storage context menu, and choose Create Datastore.
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Choose vVols
\n\"\"<\/a>After picking the Cluster, choose the FlashArray
\n\"\"<\/a>The FlashArray in this example is running Purity 6.4.10, which supports multiple Storage Containers (vVol datastores). This functionality was introduced in 6.4.3.<\/p>\n

We can use the default container, which will have a capacity of 1PB regardless of how much storage is on FlashArray. Or we can create a new Storage Container.
\n\"\"<\/a>And we can limit the size of the container:
\n\"\"<\/a>Give the datastore a name and a capacity maximum (we can grow this later) to proceed.<\/p>\n

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After pressing Finish, we will see the vVol Datastore present in the vSphere Client.
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Easy peasy.<\/p>\n

In Part 4<\/a>, I’ll cover adding NFS storage using the Pure Storage Plugin for VMware vSphere version 5.3.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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