EMC VPLEX

Note:

After reviewing telemetry data and conducting interviews with customers to determine use of this capability, this target was deemed appropriate to deprecate. If you replaced this technology with something that is currently not supported, submit an idea at the Cloud Management and AIOps Idea Portal. The last Turbonomic version that will contain this target is 8.15.0.

Turbonomic supports management of EMC VPLEX virtual storage systems in a local configuration, via the VPLEX API. Currently, Turbonomic does not support Metro or Geo configurations.

VPLEX is used to aggregate and refine data collected between connected Storage and Hypervisor targets. VPLEX supports one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one relationships between virtual volumes and LUNs. Only one-to-one mapping between virtual volume and LUNs is supported by Turbonomic.

Prerequisites

  • EMC VPLEX Local Architecture with 1:1 mapping of virtual volumes and LUNs

  • VPLEX Management Server

  • Hypervisor target supported by Turbonomic

  • Storage target supported by Turbonomic

    Note:

    In order for Turbonomic to make use of the information provided by VPLEX, you must also add the hypervisor and storage layered under it as targets.

VPLEX permissions

Turbonomic Functionality Required Permissions
Monitoring Service Account
Action Execution Admin account

Adding EMC VPLEX targets

  1. Click Settings > Target Configuration.

  2. Click New Target > Storage.

  3. Select EMC VPLEX.

  4. Configure the following settings:

    • Address:

      The IP or Hostname of the VPLEX Management Server

    • Username:

      The Username for the VPLEX Management Server

    • Password:

      The Password for the VPLEX Management Server

    • Port Number:

      The port number for the remote management connection. The default port number for the VPLEX Management server is 443

    • Secure Connection:

      Select this option to use a secure connection (HTTPS)

      Note:

      The default port (443) uses a secure connection.

Actions

For this target, actions are generated and executed via the underlying storage targets. Turbonomic will use the enhanced visibility provided by VPLEX to make more accurate storage decisions, such as recommending storage vMotion between pools.