NetApp在其NOW网站上开放了NetApp® Virtual Storage Console 1.0 for VMware vSphere的下载

VSC的主要功能如下:

• Support for ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.0 hosts.
• Limited support for ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 hosts.
• Viewing the status of storage controllers from a SAN (FC and iSCSI) perspective.
• Viewing the status of storage controllers from a NAS (NFS) perspective.
• Viewing the status of ESX hosts, including ESX version and overall status.
• Checking at a glance whether the following are configured correctly, and if not, automatically setting the correct values without needing to access the ESX console. You can select multiple ESX hosts and update settings for all hosts with a single command.
  • Storage adapter timeouts
  • Multipathing settings
  • NFS settings
• Setting credentials to access storage controllers.
• Collecting diagnostic information from the ESX hosts, storage controllers, and Fibre Channel switches.
• Tools to identify and correct misaligned disk partitions.
• Tools to set guest operating system timeouts.