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vSphere Plugin User Guide: Installing the Local vSphere Plugin

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The Pure Storage Plugin for the vSphere Client provides the ability to VMware users to have insight into and control of their Pure Storage FlashArray environment while directly logged into the vSphere Client. The Pure Storage plugin extends the vSphere Client interface to include environmental statistics and objects that underpin the VMware objects in use and to provision new resource as needed.

Installing with the FlashArray Web Interface

Installing the vSphere Client Plugin can exist accomplished directly from the FlashArray Spider web Interface with a few simple steps. This choice is used most often when client environments are unable to utilize the PowerShell or vRealize Orchestrator options due to software or firewall limitations.

Step i: Login to the Pure Storage FlashArray Web Interface (GUI).

Step 2: In the left manus pane of the GUI select the Settings choice.

Step 3: Subsequently yous have selected Settings in the right hand pane you volition then select the Software option (shown below).

Footstep 4: Once in the Software department you volition see an choice on the acme right of the lower pane titled " vSphere Plugin" .

Step v: In the summit right paw of that section yous will annotation a radio button resembling pencil and newspaper icon, select that icon to edit the vSphere Plugin options (shown below).

Step 6: An embedded window is opened allowing y'all to fill in the vCenter Server details where the vSphere Client Plugin volition exist installed. Once completed select Salvage .

Step 7: Once the vCenter details have been saved, and the plugin status verified on the vCenter Server, an pick will be displayed to Install .

Please note the Available Version on the FlashArray. If the available version is not listed you will need to open a ticket with Pure Storage Back up to have the desired version loaded onto the FlashArray.

Step eight: Subsequently the install has been completed yous will note that the Version on vCenter is at present populated and the Install radio button will have changed to Uninstall.

Stride 9: Verify the installation is successful by logging out of the vCenter Server and back in again. Note that this process in the FlashArray UI is only an installer, one time you navigate from this page the credentials are not stored. This is not a persistent connection to vCenter, just a one-time install process. All direction of the plugin is now washed from with the vSphere Client itself. This allows you to install the vSphere Plugin to many vCenters from the same FlashArray.

When utilizing the Flash Client at that place are times where you may need to restart the vSphere Web Client service (vsphere-client) for the Plugin to appear.

Installing with PowerShell

If your FlashArray does not incorporate the version of the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin you demand, and yous prefer a cocky-service option, y'all tin can apace install the plugin by using the "Install-PfavSpherePlugin" cmdlet in PowerShell.

Installing the Pure Storage PowerShell Module

In order to use the same cmdlet you need to offset ensure yous take the Pure Storage module installed and loaded.

The beginning pace is to ensure yous have installed the VMware PowerCLI module on the server. Without this module installed the Pure Storage commands volition not piece of work:

PS C:\> Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI

After the VMware PowerCLI module has been installed you can and so install the Pure Storage module on the server and load it for utilize:

PS C:\> Install-Module PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware PS C:\> Import-Module PureStorage.FlashArray.VMware

Updating the Pure Storage Module

The Pure Storage PowerShell module is actively maintained and thus updating every so often is recommended. This will ensure you take the about recent fixes and features bachelor when utilizing this module. This procedure is relatively quick and requires just a single command:

PS C:\> Update-Module Purestorage.FlashArray.VMware

Listing Available Plugin Versions

If y'all would like to know which versions are available for download, for both the Wink and HTML-5 customer, yous can execute the following command:

PS C:\> Become-PfavSpherePlugin  Source Type   Version ------ ----   ------- Pure1  Flash  3.1.iii Pure1  HTML-5 4.iii.1

vSphere Client Plugin Installation Steps

Once you have installed the required modules on the server, and know which version you want installed, you can and so install the vSphere Customer Plugin using the PowerShell cmdlet"Install-PfavSpherePlugin".

Step ane: Connect to the vCenter Server that yous desire to install the plugin on (1 case below):

PS C:\> Connect-VIServer Ip.Address.Goes.Hither

Step 2: Install the vSphere Client Plugin:

Installing the HTML-five version:

PS C:\> Install-PfavSpherePlugin -html

Installing the Flash Customer version:

PS C:\> Install-PfavSpherePlugin -flash

Step 3: Verify the installation is successful past logging out of the vCenter Server and back in again.

When utilizing the Wink Client there are times where you may need to restart the vSphere Web Client service (vsphere-client) for the Plugin to appear.

Installing with vRealize Orchestrator

Another quick and easy way to install the Pure Storage vSphere Plugin can exist done past using the "Install Pure Storage vSphere Customer Plugin" workflow available in VMware's vRealize Orchestrator (vRO).

This workflow is bachelor in Pure Storage vRO Plugin 3.5 and later.

Workflow Overview

The post-obit is the logic congenital into the aforementioned workflow:

Check to make certain vCenter 6.v or later is installed. If not, then that vCenter Server will be skipped.
Cheque to make sure the plugin is not already installed. If the plugin already exists it must exist an older version. If it is newer (or the same version) that vCenter Server will be skipped.
It volition and so register the plugin. vCenter volition and then subsequently download the plugin and make information technology bachelor in the vSphere Client.

This workflow is designed to install the HTML-5 plugin, this cannot be used for the Flash Client installation.

vSphere Customer Plugin Installation Steps

Stride 1: Login to the vRealize Orchestrator Customer.

Step 2: Under the Library department in the left manus pane, select Workflows.

Step 3: In the right hand pane search for the following terms: Pure_Storage and vSphere.

Step 4: With the "Install Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin" workflow available, select RUN .

Stride 5: Click the " + " sign and add the vCenter Server(s) y'all wish to install the vSphere Client Plugin on.

Footstep six: Select RUN .

Step vii: Monitor the workflow until a status of COMPLETED is reported (as shown below).

If the installation is unsuccessful for whatever reason, you can refer to the Logs section that is selected in the screenshot above to troubleshoot the issue further.

Step 8: If yous are logged into the vCenter Server, utilizing versions 6.5 or 6.7, and then you will demand to log out and login again to complete the vSphere Client Plugin deployment.