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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

Configure network access

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When you have multiple ESXi hosts IP addresses, all the discovered IP addresses from the host are added to an export policy by default. If you do not want to add all IP addresses to export policy, provide a setting for allowing specific IP addresses in a comma separated list or range or CIDR, or combination of all three for each vCenter.

You can choose to allow a few specific ESXi host addresses for datastore mount operation. If the setting is not provided, export policy adds all IP addresses discovered in the pre-mount step. If the setting is provided, ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere add only the ones which fall within the listed IP addresses or range. If none of the IP addresses of a host belong to the listed IP addresses, the mount on that host fails.

Steps

  1. Log in to the vSphere client using https://vcenterip/ui

  2. In the shortcuts page, click on NetApp ONTAP tools under the plug-ins section.

  3. In the left pane of ONTAP tools, navigate to Settings > Manage Network Access > Edit.

    Use comma (,) to separate the IP addresses. You can specify a specific IP address, or a range of IP addresses or IPv6 addresses.

  4. Click SAVE.