storage admin then needs to assign these volumes to a particular ESXi server and then on the host side, the user needs to discover the volume and create a datastore out of it. Without the vCenter plugin, if the user wants to create datastore, then he needs to ask the storage admin to create a volume with some configuration (like size, name, and redundancy). Let’s take a few examples to understand the need of vSphere web client plugin. But if the plugin is available, then the admin user needs to give few inputs to plugin and then the plugin will do the rest of the job.

Then the admin user needs to perform certain operations on storage through his/her respective CLI or Rest APIs and then perform certain operations on vCenter to achieve the expected outcome.

The plugin will have mainly 2 entities involved, 1) vCenter server and 2) Storage server.Ĭonsider, we do not have a plugin developed. Previously, plugin UI was developed in Flex but after 5.5 version VMware has added support for HTML to develop the plugin. Storage plugin for vSphere web client consumes the REST APIs from storage vendor and VMware web client SDKs that allows a user to perform vSphere Storage related operations. It allows VMware admin to perform storage-related operations easily. Different storage vendors develop vSphere web client plugin which allows their customer to manage their storage efficiently through an isolated interface.

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