HPE 3PAR plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

By Victor Wu on 2017 年 12 月 08 日 • ( Leave a comment )

The HPE 3PAR Plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator is free for all customers to download and includes prebuilt workflows that allow a vSphere administrator to quickly and easily deploy and manage many of the common tasks that might be needed to manage your HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage system with vSphere.

The HPE 3PAR Plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator is free for all customers to download and use. Once the plugin is installed and you have your HPE 3PAR StoreServ array registered, the fastest and easiest way to start working with the new vRO plugin is to leverage the prebuilt workflows included.

These workflows allow a vSphere administrator to quickly and easily deploy and manage many of the common tasks (create, query, modify, and delete) that might be needed to manage your storage system with vSphere. Some examples of tasks that can be automated include:

Connect and manage HPE 3PAR storage resources
Provision volumes
Create host groups
Export volumes
Create VMFS data stores from volumes

The HPE vRealize Orchestrator plug-in communicates directly with the HPE 3PAR StoreServ REST API (WSAPI) and provides the following objects that provide additional management capabilities that can be used within workflows or passed to vRealize Automation as a resource:

3PAR Connection
CPG
VVSets
Hostsets
Hosts
Volumes
Snapshot
Tasks

The workflows included in the plugin should cover most common use cases and storage provisioning tasks. For those that want to extend the capabilities of the plugin, many built-in Actions can be leveraged to create custom workflows.

The HPE 3PAR plugin for vRealize Orchestrator also includes composite workflows that simplify and automate complex or tedious tasks within vRealize Orchestrator.

Examples: