HP 3PAR Management Software Plug-In for VMware vCenter – Overview & Features

Overview

HP 3PAR Management Plug-In Software for VMware vCenter offers administrators access to powerful management capabilities from within the VMware vCenter Server management console. VMware administrators can gain greater visibility into storage resources and precise insight into how individual virtual machines are mapped to data stores and individual volumes on the HP 3PAR Storage System. With this plug-in, quality of service (QoS) characteristics for individual storage volumes such as RAID level, subsystem failure protection level, drive type, and volume size and type are all displayed within the familiar easy-to-use vCenter Server virtualization console. When used in conjunction with HP 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vShpere, this plug-in also gives VMware administrators the power of rapid online recovery from within the vCenter console.

Features

• View HP 3PAR Storage System resources connected to the VMware infrastructure using the native interface provided by the VMware vCenter Server virtualization console.
• Improves visibility for VMware administrators, who can now view information on virtual machine-to-data store-to LUN mapping.
• Gives precise insight into underlying storage properties for easy reporting and troubleshooting of infrastructure issues by VMware administrators.
• Frees VMware administrators from relying solely on storage administrators for critical information and for help troubleshooting infrastructure performance issues.
• Minimizes storage administration by consolidating all host configuration information in a central location; enables the transfer of that information to HP for service purposes.

• Integrates with optional HP 3PAR Recovery Manager Software for VMware vSphere to give VMware administrators seamless, rapid online recovery from within the vCenter console.
• Works with Recovery Manager to enable VMware administrators to create and view hundreds of space-efficient, point-in-time snapshots of virtual machines and their associated storage volumes.
• Can be used with Recover Manager to create application-consistent virtual copies for rapid recovery of mission critical applications.
• Allows stored snapshots to be used for granular, rapid online recovery of individual files or directories inside a virtual machine, for entire virtual machines, or even for an entire datastore.