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Registering VASA Provider for ONTAP with VSC for VMware vSphere

After you have installed VASA Provider for ONTAP, you must register it with Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere.

Before you begin

About this task

You must register VASA Provider with VSC in order to have access to all the VASA Provider features. You should not use the vCenter Manage > Storage Provider option to register VASA Provider.

Registering VASA Provider normally takes about 30 seconds. If you have an exceptionally large environment, the process can take longer.

If you upgrade VSC, you must first unregister VASA Provider. You will have to re-register VASA Provider with VSC again to have all access.

Steps

  1. From the Virtual Storage Console Home page, click Configuration > Register/Unregister VASA Vendor Provider.
  2. In the Register VASA Vendor Provider dialog box, enter the following information:
    • The IP address or the name of the host where you installed VASA Provider
    • The password for the VASA Provider's vpserver account

  3. Click Register All to register VASA Provider with VSC and all the vCenter Servers that are listed in the dialog box.
    Unlike VSC, VASA Provider has a 1:All relationship with vCenter Servers. You cannot configure VASA Provider to register with only one vCenter Server in a multiple vCenter Server environment.
    A message is displayed stating that VASA Provider was successfully registered.
  4. Log out of the vSphere Web Client, and log in again.
    Logging back in to the vSphere Web Client enables you to view the VASA Provider interface within VSC. From this interface, you can set up storage capability profiles, assign them to datastores, and set threshold alarms.