New in this Release

• Optionally specify a protection group when creating a new datastore in a dropdown on the "create datastore" dialog This feature allows customer to create a new datastore and immediately protect it using an available protection group on the FlashArray.
  • If the new datastore is automatically protected through the associated host or cluster, the selection is disabled, and "Already protected" message is displayed.
  • If there is no protection group existing on the targeted FlashArray, or no protection group that can be used to protect volumes directly, the selection is disabled.
• Create FlashArray snapshots for a FlashArray based datastore A new action called "Create FlashArray Snapshot" is added to the datastore objects. Newly created FlashArray snapshot objects can be managed under the "Related objects" tab of the datastore.
• Create snapshots for all FlashArray based datastores in a host, a cluster, or a datastore cluster A new action called "Create FlashArray Snapshots" is added to host, cluster and datastore clusters. The action will allow the user to take snapshots of all or a subset of the FlashArray based datastores in the object (host, cluster or datastore clusters). The snapshots taken can be managed in the "Related objects" tab of the corresponding datastore.
• Copy the FlashArray snapshots to a new Datastore After selecting a FlashArray snapshot of a datastore, the user can create a new datastore from this snapshot on the same FlashArray. Size will not be configurable in this case.
• Restore the FlashArray snapshots to the original Datastore After selecting a FlashArray snapshot of a datastore, the user can restore it back to the datastore where the snapshot was taken originally. This operation can be blocked if there exists virtual machines in "Powered On" state on the datastore. This is to avoid accidentally corrupting the running VMs.
• Destroy the FlashArray snapshots After selecting a FlashArray snapshot of a datastore, the user can destroy the FlashArray snapshot, optionally the user can also choose to eradicate the snapshot immediately from the FlashArray. .
• Update Protection Group on a datastore, a host, or a cluster On a datastore, a host or a cluster, the user can configure which protection group to add or remove from..
• Best Practices On a newly created datastore, the multipathing policy is set to Round Robin(VMware).
• Configure Multipathing On a datastore, a host, a cluster or a datacenter, the user can configure multipathing policy to set to Round Robin(VMware) for all datastores underneath.
• Rename Datastore On a datastore, the user can rename the datastore to a new name. If the checkbox is applied then it will only rename the volume on the flash array only.
• FlashArray "Everpure" tab When the user select the FlashArray Everpure tab, it will verify if the flash array has a self-signed certificate. If it does then it will pop-up an error message stating how to resolve the self-signed certificate issue or the user can select the "ignore" button.
• Storage Configuration Health On a host, the user can select the "Storage Configuration Health" which determines the current health of the ESX host against the recommended ESX host limits specified in the Configuration Maximums document. Also, it search out to see if there are any issues with the ESX host's devices.
• Upgraded the REST API used by the plugin Upgraded the REST API used internally in the plugin from a private API to the Purity public REST API 1.2.

Release notes for Everpure FlashArray Plugin for the vSphere Client.