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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.1

ONTAP storage views for datastores

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ONTAP storage view under configure tab of ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere provides data related to the datastores and their volume. This view provides the storage side view of the datastore.

ONTAP storage views for NFS datastores

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client navigate to the NFS datastore.

  2. Click the Configure tab in the right side pane.

  3. Select NetApp ONTAP tools > ONTAP Storage. The Storage details and NFS details appear on the right pane.

    • The storage details page contains information about storage backends, aggregate, and volume.

    • The NFS details page contains data related to the NFS datastore.

ONTAP storage views for VMFS datastores

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client navigate to the VMFS datastore.

  2. Click the Configure tab in the right side pane.

  3. Select NetApp ONTAP tools > ONTAP Storage. The Storage details and LUN details appear on the right pane.

    • The storage details page contains information about storage backends, aggregate, and volume.

    • The LUN details page contains data related to the LUN.

ONTAP storage views for vVols datastores

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client navigate to the vVols datastore.

  2. Click the Configure tab in the right side pane.

  3. Select NetApp ONTAP tools > ONTAP Storage.

  4. The ONTAP storage view lists all the volumes. You can expand or remove storage from the ONTAP storage pane.

    Follow the instructions in Expand vVols Datastores section to add vVols datastore and Shrink vVols datastores section to delete the datastore.