Everpure FlashArray Management Extension for Windows Admin Center

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is Microsoft’s next generation management tool for Servers, Clustering and Compute. Unlike the Windows Server Manager which has been part of Windows Server for many years WAC has a full extensibility model. With that extensibility the Everpure FlashArray Management Extension for Windows Admin Center was build to provide ability to manage Everpure all-flash storage arrays. Both on-premises and cloud deployed FlashArrays can be managed. Today Cloud Block Store for AWS deployments can be added to Windows Admin Center and there will be support for Cloud Block Store for Azure in the future.

The new Everpure FlashArray Management Extension provides these key features:

• Ability to connect and manage multiple on-premises and cloud FlashArrays.
• A comprehensive dashboard view of the FlashArray with all the key metrics that can be viewed with the main Web Management. That includes:
  • IOPS, Bandwidth, Latency, Data Reduction and Space Management.
• Consolidated view for managing Host Groups and Hosts, including details about protocols, iSCSI Qualified Name (IQNs) and World Wide Names (WWNs).
• Protection Group management for setting up Targets and creating snapshots. In order to add Members it requires the use of the Web Management GUI.
• Volume Management which includes the ability to create and destroy volumes. When a volume is destroyed, it will be placed in the Destroyed items bucket. Eradication of the destroyed volume must be done from the Web Management GUI.
• Manage connected servers to the FlashArray which is determined by analyzing the connected servers in Windows Admin Center.
• View connected disks (volumes) to individual Windows Servers and check if MultiPath-IO (MPIO) is installed and properly configured. Create and mount the new volumes.
• Support for Light and Dark mode through WAC personalization.