I was playing around with vSphere this weekend while replying to topics on the VMTN Community. One of the things often asked is storage reporting… (Snapshot info / Disk utilization etc) With ESX 3.5 / vCenter 2.5 it needs to be scripted and can be integrated into vCenter by using custom fields, but as you can imagine not everyone would like to add custom functionality to vCenter.
As of the next version of ESX/vCenter aka vSphere you can just click the storage tab on a host or VM. The following is the storage tab of a VM, click the pic for a large version:
And of course the storage view on a host:
And of course the storage view on a host:
And what about the new map functionality, drilling down to HBA level
I do like the new Map functionality.
Maps was just begging for some improvments to make it a really usefull tool.
beside this, there are some new features simplify the datastore or LUN management which allow us to rename it ourselves. Very useful to manage the RDM in virtual infrastructure.
I like the “Snaphot space”…
There are some great features as I see. I can’t wait to be able to play with, and to install it for some client…