The virtual appliance for Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) has the VASA Provider capability enabled by default. You can configure VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) datastores with required storage capability profiles for each vVols datastore.
Before you begin
- You must have set up your vCenter Server instance and configured ESXi.
- You must have deployed the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA.
About this task
If the VASA Provider capability is
disabled before upgrading to the 9.7.1 release of the virtual appliance for
Virtual Storage Console (VSC), VASA Provider, and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA), the VASA Provider capability remains disabled after the upgrade. This
release allows you to enable vVols replication feature for vVols
datastores.
Procedure
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Log in to the web user interface of VMware vSphere.
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From the vSphere Client, click .
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Click Settings.
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Click Manage Capabilities in the
Administrative
Settings tab.
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In the Manage Capabilities
dialog box, select the VASA Provider extension to
enable.
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If you want to use replication capability for vVols datastores, then use the Enable vVols
replication toggle button.
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Enter the IP address of the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA and the administrator password, and then click
Apply.
After you finish
If you are using ONTAP 9.6 or earlier clusters, then you must register
OnCommand API Services with VASA Provider to get details of vVols
datastores and
virtual machines used in the SAN vVols VM and SAN vVols
datastore reports. But if you are using ONTAP 9.7 or later, then you do not need to register
OnCommand API Services with VASA Provider.