The virtual appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) is a product suite that includes the capabilities of
VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA. You can deploy this product suite as a virtual appliance, which reduces your effort of installing and registering each product separately with the
vCenter Server.
The product suite includes SRA and VASA Provider as plug-ins for vCenter Server, which provide end-to-end lifecycle management for VMware virtual server environments running on
NetApp storage and the
VMware vSphere Web Client. The virtual appliance for
VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA integrates smoothly with the
VMware vSphere Web Client and enables you to use single sign-on (SSO) services. In an environment with multiple
vCenter Server instances, each
vCenter Server instance that you want to manage must have its own registered instance of VSC. The VSC dashboard page enables you to quickly check the overall status of your datastores and
virtual machines.
By running the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA, you can perform the following tasks:
VASA Provider for ONTAP is registered with vCenter Server as soon as you enable the VASA Provider extension. You can create and use storage capability profiles and virtual datastores. You can also set alarms to warn you when volumes and aggregates are approaching the threshold limits. You can monitor the performance of
virtual machines disks (VMDKs) and the
virtual machines that are created on virtual datastores.
You can configure and use VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA in the following combinations:
To enable administrators to control access to the vCenter Server objects and to secure the system, VSC supports role-based access control (RBAC) at two levels:
Tip: VSC has a
View privilege that is available after the virtual appliance for
VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA is installed. You can add the
View privilege to the
vCenter Server roles. The
View privilege is required if you want to view VSC in the
VMware vSphere Web Client.