NFS Datastore Management with the vSphere Plugin

User Guides for VMware Solutions

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The vSphere Plugin has integration with FlashArray file services and allows users to unlock the Purity features for NFS directly with the Plugin. Such as creating a new datastore, monitoring the performance and capacity usage of the datastores as well is the virtual machines on those datastores, recovering the virtual machine from a point in time snapshot and recovering a virtual machine that was deleted. Each of these workflows is covered in these section of the user guide.

Prerequisites: This KB article assumes that the remote vSphere Plugin has been installed to vCenter, that one or more FlashArray(s) have been added as a connection to it, that one or more ESXi host(s) or clusters have been configured for use with the plugin and that the FlashArray(s) are on Purity version 6.4.0 or later:

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