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- Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 1
Dell EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide Version 2.x July 2021 Rev. A06 - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 2
and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 - 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 3
...20 Monitoring ESXi hosts...21 Manage Local Users...21 Configure a vCenter Server connection...21 Manually register the VASA provider in vCenter Server 22 Change a vCenter Server connection...23 Updating internal ESXi hosts on PowerStore X model appliances 23 Adding an external ESXi host to - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 4
vVols across multiple vCenter Servers...29 vSphere host profiles...29 Internal PowerStore X model cluster components visible in vCenter 29 Block access for LUNs...30 Service and recovery...31 Support for VSS...31 PowerStore limitations...31 vSphere limitations...31 VMware snapshot limitations...32 - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 5
PowerStore Documentation page at https:// www.dell.com/powerstoredocs. ● Troubleshooting For information about products, software updates, licensing, and service, go to https://www.dell.com/support and locate the appropriate product support page. ● Technical support For technical support and service - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 6
in vCenter Server. ● How to add the ESXi hosts in a PowerStore X model cluster to VMware NSX-V. ● Best practices and limitations for PowerStore, vCenter Server, and vSphere. Audience The information in this guide is primarily intended for: ● System administrators who are responsible for a wide - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 7
X model appliances, see the VMware Licensing and Support for PowerStore X table in the PowerStore Simple Support Matrix, which can be downloaded from the PowerStore Documentation page at: https://www.dell.com/powerstoredocs. ● On a PowerStore T model cluster, a connection to a vCenter Server is - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 8
anti-virus solution. Virtual Volumes Virtual Volumes (vVols) are an object type that corresponds to VM disks and snapshots. vVols are supported on a PowerStore cluster using the VASA protocol. vVols are stored in storage containers that are known as vVols datastores. vVols datastores allow vVols to - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 9
clusters automatically create and provision Protocol Endpoints when adding an ESXi host. PowerStore X model appliances support only the iSCSI protocol for internal ESXi hosts, but support both iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols for external hosts. Storage containers overview Storage containers - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 10
Figure 1. Storage containers spanning appliances in a PowerStore cluster Multitenancy PowerStore appliances support multiple storage containers on a cluster to support multitenancy requirements. Multiple storage containers can be created allowing the separation of VMs and associated vVols from one - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 11
Guide for PowerStore X Models. The document includes: ● Planning and preparation information ● Configuration recommendations and best practices ● Network configuration, VLAN, and IP address requirements ● Switch configuration and cabling procedures ● Network configuration validation instructions - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 12
uplink port group and nine distributed port groups by default. The following table displays the default configurations for port groups on a PowerStore X model appliance: Table 3. Port group configurations Name DVUplinks NIC teaming None VLAN type VLAN trunking (VGT) VLAN ID 0-4094 12 Overview - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 13
I/O Control (NIOC) is enabled by default on the vDS. The following table displays the default settings for traffic types on a PowerStore X model appliance: Table 4. Default traffic settings in NIOC Traffic type Shares Management Traffic Low Fault Tolerance Traffic Normal vMotion Traffic Low - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 14
existing VMware ELA or purchase licenses from Dell EMC, VMware, or a partner. PowerStore X model appliances support two types of vSphere licenses: ● you must contact your service provider for a resolution. The resolution to this issue might require reinitializing the PowerStore X model cluster. - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 15
these settings are listed below and should not be changed because they are specific to the PowerStore X model cluster. Before changing any settings in vCenter or vSphere, review the following configuration details: Table 6. vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) policy Default vSphere value - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 16
value Disabled Disabled Table 13. Path selection policy for a Protocol Endpoint (PE) Default vSphere value Recommended PowerStore value ● Path Selection Policy = Most Recently Used ● iops = 1000 ● Number of outstanding I/Os with competing worlds = 32 ● Path Selection Policy = Round Robin - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 17
Disabled Disabled Notes To prevent networking problems, do not change this setting. ESXi passwords The default root password for ESXi on a PowerStore X model appliance is in the following format: _123!, where is the seven-character Dell Service Tag for the appliance. Do - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 18
documentation for the version of vCenter Server you are using. Monitoring and managing VMs The Compute > Virtual Machines page in the PowerStore Manager displays essential information about all connected vVolbased VMs in a centralized location. The main view shows essential details for each VM - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 19
interactive line charts with latency, IOPS, bandwidth, and I/O operation size manual or scheduled, create VMware-managed snapshots. You can take snapshots from PowerStore Manager or vSphere. Whether the snapshots are taken from PowerStore select multiple vVols to collect support materials or add or - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 20
on page 20. ● Change the name of a storage container. If the PowerStore cluster is connected to a vCenter Server, the name of the storage container , and download the chart data as an image or CSV file. The PowerStore Manager raises an alert when usage of a storage container reaches or exceeds 85% - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 21
VASA provider in vCenter Server is required to use vVols. NOTE: A PowerStore cluster cannot be connected to more than one vCenter Server at a time. Perform the following steps in PowerStore Manager to manually establish a connection to a vCenter server and register the VASA provider to use - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 22
you are unable to register the VASA provider in PowerStore Manager, you can manually register the VASA provider on the vCenter Server. About this task Perform the following steps to manually register VASA provider for a PowerStore T model cluster using vCenter Server: Steps 1. If a VM Administrator - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 23
Upgrade Guide. CAUTION: The internal nodes of a PowerStore X model appliance can only use ESXi updates that are validated by Dell EMC and available for download from the Dell Digital Locker. Do not use ESXi updates that are obtained from VMware or any other source. To view a list of supported ESXi - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 24
VMware integration You can use many VMware products with PowerStore the same way you would in your existing VMware environment. The following products are supported in this release: ● VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) ● Dell EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for VMware vSphere Client - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 25
hosts to an existing NSX-V deployment VMware NSX-V introduction PowerStore X model appliances include support for VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere (NSX-V). NSX-V Instead, deploy the Guest Introspection services on a vSphere cluster using the PowerStore private datastores, which are named PRIVATE - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 26
cluster components visible in vCenter • Block access for LUNs • Service and recovery • PowerStore limitations • vSphere limitations Performance best practices for PowerStore X model clusters During the initial configuration of a PowerStore X model cluster, best practice settings can be automatically - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 27
For instructions on distributing VM clones across a multi-appliance PowerStore cluster, see Distribute VM clones across an existing PowerStore T load and network traffic on the appliance. The best practices solution is to manually migrate some of the VM clones to the new appliance in the cluster - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 28
as the base VMs. The best practices solution is to migrate some of the VM clones to the new appliance in the cluster using PowerStore Manager. For instructions on migrating vVols for VM clones, see Migrate vVols to another appliance on page 28. NOTE: Migrating vVols for linked clones transforms them - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 29
to reset the root password of the internal ESXi hosts on the nodes of a PowerStore cluster. If you create a host profile, ensure that the SSH public key field ESXi hosts. The SSH public key field is in the Security and Services > Security Settings > Security > User Configuration > root entry on the - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 30
the vVol implementation due to the design optimizations and integration within PowerStore Manager. However, PowerStore X model clusters also support VMFS datastores for VMs by mapping block volumes to internal ESXi hosts using the PowerStore REST API or CLI. See KB Article Number 182813 for more - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 31
Service and recovery The PowerStore virtualization configuration affects some of the troubleshooting processes that an experienced virtualization administrator may be familiar with. To collect diagnostic information for appliances in your PowerStore cluster, go to Support > Gather Support Materials - Dell PowerStore 500T | EMC PowerStore Virtualization Infrastructure Guide - Page 32
snapshots count towards this limit, they are never deleted automatically unless the expiration date is reached. Manual snapshots Manual snapshots that are created with PowerStore Manager or vSphere cannot have a retention policy and are never deleted without user action. If the maximum number of
Dell EMC PowerStore
Virtualization Infrastructure Guide
Version 2.x
July 2021
Rev. A06