HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual page 124

Service Template name
Allocate Fabric Aware Volumes
and Create Datastore for ESX
Cluster
124 Services catalog
Software prerequisites
• Configuration Manager REST
API v8.5.3 or later.
• Brocade Network Advisor (BNA)
14.2 (SAN System Administrator
or Zone Administrator role is
required)
• VMware vSphere Hypervisor
(ESXi) v6.5, v6.5 U1/U2
• VMware vCenter v6.5, v6.5
U1/U2
• Python 3.5
The following libraries are
required:
◦ pyvmomi 6.5.0.2017.5.post1
◦ six 1.11.0
◦ urlib3 1.22
◦ certifi 2017.1.5
◦ idna 2.6
◦ chardet 3.0.4
◦ requests 2.18.4
Setup prerequisites
• Create a datastore cluster.
• Connect the storage
system and hosts to the
SAN and verify that they
belong to the correct fabric.
• Create a storage pool.
• Disable storage DRS
before using this service
template. Adding a
Datastore into a Datastore
cluster can fail when
Storage DRS is enabled.
• When specifying email
addresses in Notification
Settings, configure the
SMTP settings in the
Administration Tab and
verify that the SMTP server
is accessible from the
Automation Director server.
• If LIP reset is enabled,
register all ESX server
information with login
credentials as Agentless
Remote Connections in the
Administration Tab.
• Create an ESX cluster.
• Add hosts to the ESX
cluster.
• Configure a single Brocade
Network Advisor to manage
the fabric.
• Verify that all storage ports
and HBA ports, which are
used by this service
template, belong to the
fabric.
• When allocating volumes in
VSM, add all required
resources such as LDEV ID
and host group ID to the
VSM resource group.
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