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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

ONTAP storage views for datastores

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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere shows the ONTAP storage side view of the datastores and their volumes in the configure tab.

Steps

  1. From the vSphere client, go to the datastore.

  2. Select the Configure tab in the right pane.

  3. Select NetApp ONTAP tools > ONTAP Storage. The view changes by datastore type. See the table below:

Datastore type

Information available

NFS datastore

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

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

VMFS datastores

The Storage details page contains storage backend, aggregate, volume, and storage availability zone (SAZ) details.

The Storage unit details page contains details of the storage unit.

vVols datastores

Lists all the volumes. You can expand or remove storage from the ONTAP storage pane.

ONTAP tools do not support this view for ASA r2 system-based vVols datastores.