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Table of ContentsLab Overview .................................................................................................................... 2
NetApp Virtual Storage Console for vSphere Web Client.........................................3NetApp Portlets & Web Client.................................................................................. 5
Deployment .................................................................................................................... 14Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) & User Management.......................................15NFS for VAAI Plugin ............................................................................................... 20ESXi Host Configuration ........................................................................................ 25
Provisioning .................................................................................................................... 29Creating Datastores .............................................................................................. 30Rapid-Cloning Virtual Machines............................................................................. 36
Maintenance ................................................................................................................... 45Resizing & Destroying Datastores ......................................................................... 46Backup a VM ......................................................................................................... 51Restoring VMs ....................................................................................................... 55Schedule Backup Jobs ........................................................................................... 59Conclusion............................................................................................................. 66
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Lab Overview
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NetApp Virtual Storage Console forvSphere Web ClientWelcome to the NetApp Hands-On-Lab, featuring our latest version of the VirtualStorage Console (VSC) for the vSphere Web client! I hope that you get a good indicationof the work we've done to completely rebuild the VSC for this new UI. In this lab, wehope you'll enjoy working through all of the most common workflows. If you have ANYquestions or feedback, developers that wrote the software that you're using areproctoring the Hands-On-Lab and would love to come and help you out, or receive anytips about something that could be done better. All you have to do is click the HELPbutton above, and someone will come to see you! I hope you enjoy the lab. If you'dprefer to email us feedback, you can send it to [email protected].
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that both the VMware and NetApp software you'reworking with today are currently in Beta, and subject to change.
ENJOY!
VMware vSphere Web Client
VMware vSphere has a new face, known as the Web Client. This new interface bringswith it a new efficient way of doing things, multiple vCenter support leveraging SingleSign-On (SSO) services, and a new plugin framework that vendors can use to developbeautiful, highly-functional plugins that seamlessly integrate into this new design.
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NetApp Virtual Storage Console
We've rebuilt the user interface of the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) to match the flow,look, and feel of the vSphere Web client. In the Summary screen, you will be able tocheck the overall status of your vSphere environment, including Storage Systems,Automatic Discovery status and findings, and Host Configuration compliance.
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NetApp Portlets & Web ClientLet's take a quick tour of the new Web client!
Start Firefox
Launch the Firefox web browser. The browser's home page is already set to load the webclient, so no need to type anything in.
Log in to the web client
Type in the following:
Username: CORP\Administrator
Password: VMware1!
...and click Login.
NOTE: If you are using a multi-national keyboard, there is a cheat sheet on thedesktop to copy/paste the credentials in the event you cannot type them in.
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Welcome to the new interface!
As we progress through the lab, you'll begin to get more and more familiar with this newuser interface. NetApp has deeply integrated with this interface, and you will notice ourblue logo wherever these integrations have taken place. The web client has a muchricher API than the traditional thick/C# client, which allows us to integrate in a moregranular fashion. Let's take a look at some of the places where these integrations occur.
NetApp Virtual Storage Console
On the Home screen, you'll notice the blue "N" in several places. Let's refresh all of theviews to insure we get the most out of our experience in this lab. Click on VirtualStorage Console.
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NetApp Storage Systems
We'll explore this dashboard extensively throughout this lab. For now, click on StorageSystems...
Storage Systems refresh
Click the Update All icon located above the systems listing inventory.
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Confirm
You'll receive a confirmation dialog to kick off a background process that will rediscoverall storage controllers and integration points and refresh their information. (NOTE: Thisis not necessary in production environments, but due to the way these labs areprovisioned, a manual refresh is necessary!)
Success!
When you receive the success notification, simply click OK. The storage systems and allviews will refresh in the background.
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vCenter inventory
At the top of the window, you will notice an icon that looks like a house. This button willbe your best friend when navigating through the web client to take you back to theHome view. Throughout the rest of this lab, we'll refer to this as "Home." Click Home.
Hosts & Clusters
Click on vCenter, and then Click on Hosts and Clusters
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Hosts and Clusters view
In our lab, you'll notice we have two ESXi hosts in a single vSphere Cluster. You'll alsonotice that one of our Hosts is currently in Maintenance Mode.
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Right-click context menu's
All right-click menu's are context-sensitive. Different options will be presented to youbased on what object you interact with. For example, when we right-click on a vSphereCluster, we get the option to provision a datastore.
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Datastores view
Click on the Datastores inventory as noted by the number 1 above, then right-click on aDatastore, and then the NetApp VSC submenu. Notice that we have many more options,and we will explore all of these throughout the course of this lab.
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Portlets
When navigating through the web client, keep an eye out for the blue NetApp logo. Thiswill provide an indication of an area where we have integrated, and a place where youcan find some extra helpful information specific to the storage being used to host yourvirtual datacenters.
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Deployment
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Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) &User ManagementManaging Users and their Abilities
Storage systems
Let's go take a look at the storage systems that VSC has automatically discovered. FromHome, click on Virtual Storage Console.
Configuration
Click Configuration in the left column, and check out the list of tools available on theright. Click on Set Default Storage System Credentials.
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Setting Default Discovery credentials
This will not directly affect the rest of this lab, as the necessary info has already beenentered for you. This is merely to showcase a feature of the VSC that is gettingenhanced. When you first install the VSC, it auto-discovers all storage systems in yourenvironment. These credentials will be used to attempt to authenticate to all newlydiscovered storage controllers going forward. Click Cancel to close this dialog box.
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Storage-centric Role-based access
Traditionally, even against best practice, people would simply use root credentials toauthenticate to a storage controller. We have gone to great lengths to make it easier toimplement Role-Based Access Control within both the storage controllers as well aswithin vSphere. Let's take a look at some ways to use RBAC for storage controllers. ClickStorage Systems.
Modify storage system credentials
Right click on the cluster and select Modify to update the credentials used to log in to astorage controller.
RBAC
NetApp storage systems support role-based user management, and you can createspecialized accounts per storage system to limit what an admin can and cannotperform. The NetApp VSC fully supports this construct, and accounts created on storagecontrollers can be used to authenticate a VSC user so that the admin is able to perform
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his specified tasks. Traditionally, this was required to be done at the command line ofeach storage controller. However...
RBAC User Creator
...enter the RBAC User Creator. One of the lead developers of the NetApp VSC has alsocreated this Community-Supported tool that gives an admin a simple-to-use GUIinterface to quickly add a set of user accounts to a specified storage controller. Byselecting which auxiliary software you intend to use, the RBAC User Creator can simplifyalmost all of the necessary configuration. Let's take a quick look at it and create a useraccount that we will use later. Locate the icon on the desktop and double-click on theshortcut.
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RBAC User Creator
Follow the steps notated in the image to create a vsc_admin account on the SVM(Vserver) named 'HOL.' Note: In the "Storage System" section use VMware1! asthe admin password.
NOTE: If you are using a multi-national keyboard, there is a cheat sheet on thedesktop to copy/paste the credentials in the event you cannot type them in.
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NFS for VAAI PluginvStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is a method of offloading storage-relatedtasks to an intelligent array, eliminating the I/O between ESXi hosts and storagecontrollers. For SAN, this is natively built-in to both hosts and most storage systems. ForNFS, a plugin (VIB) is required to be installed on each host. This can be accomplished bysimply running an esxcli command at the host terminal, but a lot of checks cannot bedone to insure it is installed properly. Using VSC to deploy the NetApp NAS VAAI plugininsures that compatible ESXi hosts and storage systems are available, as well asenabling and setting several parameters FOR you, eliminating the guess-work.
Home --> Virtual Storage Console
From the Home screen, click on Virtual Storage Console.
NFS VAAI Tools
Inside the Virtual Storage Console "command center," click on NFS VAAI Tools.
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Plugin version
In your production environment, there is a separate VIB file to download and place in aspecified folder. You can find instructions on how to do that in the Install & Admin Guidefor VSC. For the purpose of this lab, we have done this for you. You should see theversion number detected. Click the link to Install on Host.
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Install the NFS VAAI plugin
Since NFS VAAI is only supported in vSphere 5.x and Data ONTAP 8.1.x, VSC does aquick background check to insure that your hosts and storage systems are compliant. Ifany of your hosts are not compliant, they will be greyed out and you are unable toselect them. Since both of our hosts are vSphere 5.5, we can move ahead. Weintentionally started your lab with esx-02a in Maintenance Mode so that we couldperform the install here. Select the checkbox for esx-02a and click Install.
Confirm
Click OK to confirm the installation.
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Completion
Once you see the tasks complete in Recent Task, we can reboot the ESXi host.
Reboot the host
Click Home, and then Hosts and Clusters. Select esx-02a. It should say "RebootRequired" in the Summary. This is a good indication that the installation was successful.From the Actions menu, select Reboot.
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Confirm
In the confirmation dialog, it's always a good idea to mark the timestamp where youinstalled the plugin, in case there are any issues. Append the Reason field with themessage and click OK to Reboot the host.
Reboot Complete
Once the host comes back online, the reboot process will take several minutes,the "Reboot Required" flag should be gone. Click Actions, and Exit Maintenance Mode toput the host back into normal operation.
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ESXi Host ConfigurationIn order to avoid any service interruptions, it is considered a NetApp and VMware BestPractice to make some configuration changes to ESXi hosts when pairing vSphere withNetApp storage controllers. The NetApp VSC makes this process simple by providing aneasy-to-use interface to apply these Recommended Settings to all of your ESXi hostswith a couple of mouse clicks.
Hosts view
From the Home screen, click vCenter.
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Hosts
Click Hosts.
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Right-click menu
Right click on esx-02a and follow the menus to traverse to NetApp VSC -> SetRecommended Values. Click on Set Recommended Values.
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NFS Settings
For SAN environments, there are options for HBA's and path optimization with MPIO. Forthe purpose of this lab, we are only going to configure the NFS settings. Uncheck HBA/CNA Adapter Settings, and MPIO Settings, and Click OK.
Progress...
This dialog will track the progress of the config changes.
Completed!
Success!
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Provisioning
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Creating DatastoresNow that our ESXi hosts and NetApp storage controllers are properly configured, it'stime to create some Datastores. The old methods of doing this natively with the vSphereinterface, per-host, are a bit cumbersome. With the VSC, we allow you to create a newDatastore once, and attach it to all hosts at the same time! Let's create one so you cansee what we mean.
Hosts & Clusters
From the Home screen, click Hosts and Clusters.
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Create a Datastore for the entire Cluster!
As always, you can create a Datastore and then mount it to each host individually, butthat isn't a very efficient use of your time. Let us do all the legwork for you! Right clickon the CLUSTER01 --> NetApp VSC --> Provision Datastore
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NetApp Provisioning Wizard
Type in a name for your Datastore (i.e. VMworldHOL), select NFS, and click Next.
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NetApp Provisioning Wizard
Your storage systems will be presented to you to select from. This is because VSCautomates the creation and export of your volume (and LUN/igroup for SAN uses), andwe need to know which controller to allocate the storage from. In this case we are usingClustered Data ONTAP, so we need to select a node and SVM (Vserver). Leave thedefaults and click Next.
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Volume specifics
Once you specify the name, protocol, and storage system, we need a few moreingredients from you. Do you want to Thin Provision? How big do you want it to be?Which aggregate (i.e. Disk Pool) do you want it to come out of? Do you want to leverageAutoGrow? If so, specify the max size and growth increments. Set all of the picturedsettings in 1 - 7 and click Next.
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Summary
Review your settings and click Finish. That's it! Your volume will now be created withyour set parameters, properly exported using best practices configurations, andmounted to all ESXi hosts in CLUSTER01. As an additional note, this same process worksat both the Datacenter and even an entire vCenter level!
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Rapid-Cloning Virtual MachinesFor years now, NetApp's rapid-cloning technology (RCU) has changed the way peopledeploy VDI environments. We've carried that forward into our newest version of VSC forthe Web client. Let's take a look...
Creating Rapid Clones
From the Home Screen, click on VMs and Templates.
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Right-click menu
For the purpose of this lab, we have pre-populated some virtual machines for you touse. Right-click on "vm_to_clone" --> NetApp VSC --> and click on Create Rapid Clones
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Alignment check
The first thing we perform is an alignment check. For the purpose of this lab and fordemonstrative purposes, this machine has been left misaligned in order to showcasethis feature. You should never clone misaligned virtual machines, as this canexponentially affect the performance of your virtual datacenter. Click OK.
Create Rapid Clones Wizard
You have the option of selecting a single host, or a cluster, when creating rapid clones ofVM's. By selecting a cluster, VSC will automatically spread the clones evenly across allhosts in the cluster. Select CLUSTER01 and click Next.
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Warning
You may receive an alert about esx-01a not supporting FC/FCoE. This is a known issueand will be corrected in a future release. If you receive it, please click OK to advancepast it.
Disk Format
Leave defaults set to Same Format As Source and click Next.
Virtual Machine Details
Set the memory size to 128, Number of Clones to 5, and change the Name to"VMworldClone." Note that we also have a tight integration with both VMware View andCitrix XenDesktop. Once the clones are created, we can import them into Connection
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Broker's, and automatically populate all of the information for you, making VDIdeployments extremely easy to manage. Click Next.
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Storage System Details
This screen allows you to select the storage system that you wish to place the clonesupon. Leave the defaults and click Next.
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Datastore Options
There are also multiple methods to distribute the cloned VM's across multipledatastores, as well as logically place certain types of data amongst VMDK's in sets ofdatastores. To find out more about this feature, come by the booth for a demo, or checkout the VSC Install & Admin Guide. For this exercise, leave Basic selected and click Next.
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Datastore Details
This screen gives you the option of creating a new datastore for the clones, or selectingan existing one. We have already populated one for this exercise. Select "ds_to_clone"and click Next.
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Summary
The last screen is a summary. Once you're sure everything is as you'd like it to be, clickFinish.
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Maintenance
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Resizing & Destroying DatastoresOne of the most troubling things in IT is leaving a mess behind when something getsdeleted. VSC programatically cleans up auxiliary configuration items when deletingdatastores, and makes resizing a datastore literally a 1-step change. Let's walk throughboth.
Home screen
From the Home screen, click on Storage.
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VMworldHOL Datastore
Remember the VMworldHOL datastore we created earlier? Turns out, it needs to bebigger than 10GB. Let's resize it to 20GB. Right click on the VMworldHOL datastore -->NetApp VSC --> click on Resize.
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Resize
Set the New Datastore Size (GB) to 20 and click OK.
Success
In a matter of seconds, we have expanded the size of the volume on the storagecontroller, and updated the mounts to all ESXi hosts. For NFS, this operation alsosupports shrinking.
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Destroy Datastore
Imagine a scenario where someone requesting a datastore changed their minds and donot need it anymore. We can quickly and cleanly destroy this datastore, and this processwill also clean up any exports, igroups, etc that are associated with it. Right click on theVMworldHOL datastore --> NetApp VSC --> click on Destroy.
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Checking for contents within the Datastore
It's important to note that when destroying a datastore, all contents within will also bedestroyed. If this list is blank, it means the datastore is empty and you're safe toproceed. Click OK.
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Backup a VMVSC leverages NetApp array-based snapshots to take consistent backups, with theability to build a schedule, without ever leaving the vSphere client. These can beexecuted as Instant Backups of either VMs or entire Datastores, or scheduled as jobs tobe run at pre-determined time. Let's take a look at both...
VMs and Templates
From the Home screen, click on VMs and Templates.
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Backup Now
Right click on "vm_to_backup" --> NetApp VSC --> Backup --> click on Backup Now
Backup Now config
If you leave the name field blank, it will automatically name it for you with a uniquename based on the VM or Datastore backed up, and include a date-timestamp in thename. Let's change ours to "VMworldBackup" and click OK. It will quite literally be donein seconds.
Note: If the VM is contained in a volume that is part of a SnapMirror relationship, youcan check the box to Initiate a SnapMirror update once the backup completes toreplicate the latest backed-up information off-site. If you want to include a VM-consistency snapshot, which will trigger a native VMware Snapshot because taking the
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storage snapshot, you can check that box as well. With most modern journaled OS'stoday, this is no longer necessary in most cases.
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Backup a Datastore
For Datastores, the process is similar. We simply execute the workflow against adatastore rather than a VM, and all objects contained within that datastore are includedin the snapshot backup.
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Restoring VMsVSC makes restoring VM's just as easy as backing them up.
Right-click Menu
Since we just backed it up, right click on "vm_to_backup" --> NetApp VSC --> click onRestore.
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Restore - Backup Selection
When the Restore wizard loads, select the backup that you want to Restore from. In thiscase, it's the job we just ran, named "VMworldBackup." Select it and click Next.
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Restore - Virtual Entity Selection
In this pane, we have a lot of granularity. We can restore individual VMDK's to theoriginal or different datastores, we can select ESXi host the restored VM will land on, orwe can simply restore the entire VM to it's original state. For the purpose of this lab,since it is the most popular, let's leave the defaults selected, and click Next.
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Restore - Ready to Complete
Review your selections and click Finish.
Restore - Progress
You can monitor the progress in the recent tasks.
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Schedule Backup JobsIf you have VM's or Datastores that need to be backed up on a regular basis, VSC allowsyou to create scheduled jobs that will run whenever you determine is best.
Right click menu
Let's work with the same VM we backed up earlier. Only this time, we're going toschedule it as a job, rather than executing an instant backup. Right click on"vm_to_backup" --> NetApp VSC --> Backup --> click on Schedule Backup.
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Schedule Backup - Details
Let's give a fitting name to the Job. Name it something you like, or simply name it"VMworldSchedule" and click Next.
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Schedule Backup - Spanned Entities
Spanned entities, for example, would be a VM with multiple VMDK's across multipledatastores. We fully support such a setup, but it is not common. Simply click Next toskip this step.
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Schedule Backup - Scripts
VSC can execute any number of scripts, independent of language (powershell/perlpreferred!), as pre and post-operations for when the job is run. Since we won't be usingany scripts, simply click Next.
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Schedule Backup - Schedule and Retention
There are many different ways you can customize and configure a backup job in VSC.For this example, we'll do a typical 30-day retention. Select DAILY as the Schedule, setthe time to 0300 (3:00AM), and set the Max # Days to 30, and then click Next.
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Schedule Backup - Credentials and Alerts
VSC backup jobs fully support RBAC functionality for executing the job as a specificvCenter user. If you leave it as Use default credentials, then whatever use you arecurrently logged in as will be the account used to execute the job going forward. Sincewe do not have an SMTP host, Set email alerts to Never, and click Next.
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Schedule Job - Summary
Double-check your job parameters, and check the box for Run Job Now, and then clickFinish. You've now successfully setup a Daily backup job, retaining 30 days worth ofbackups. All without ever leaving the vSphere client or needing any auxiliary software!
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ConclusionDON'T LEAVE YET!
Thank you for taking the time to walk through the NetApp Virtual Storage Console withus! We hope you have enjoyed what we are putting together for all of the virtualizationand storage admins of the world. If we are NOT, then please let us know! Thedevelopers of the NetApp VSC are right here in the lab with you! Press the big HELPbutton above so that one of them can come by, take your feedback, scan your badge,and get you entered into a drawing for some cool swag!
If you'd prefer, you can email feedback directly to the development team: [email protected]
DISCLAIMER: This is beta software from both VMware and NetApp. It is subject tochange.
Be sure to stop by the NETAPP BOOTH to check out all of our demo's that wedid not get to cover in this lab session, including FlashRay, V-series, VASA,vVols, and many others. If you have further questions about the VSC itself, wewill have a live version running in the booth!
Enjoy VMworld 2013!
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ConclusionThank you for participating in the VMware Hands-on Labs. Be sure to visithttp://hol.vmware.com/ to continue your lab experience online.
Lab SKU: HOL-PRT-1301
Version: 20141126-105741
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