Pure Storage FlashArray adapter for Cisco UCS Director

Overview

The FlashArray UCS Director adapter helps automate FlashStack deployments. FlashStack is a converged infrastructure reference architecture from Pure Storage that includes Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS), Cisco Nexus ethernet and MDS Fibre Channel switches.

http://flashstack.com

Contents

The UCS Director repository includes folders containing: -

• Pure Storage Connector User Guide PDF
• Pure Storage FlashArray Workflows wfdx file
• Pure Storage Connector Adaptor zip file
• Pure Storage Adaptor source code zip file.

Supported Storage Version

Any FlashArray Hardware running:

• Purity 4.x
• Purity 5.x
• Purity 6.x

Deploy/Modify the Pure Storage Connector

1. Log in to Cisco UCS Director by using the Admin role credential
2. In Cisco UCS Director, from the Administration menu, select Open Automation
3. On the Connectors tab, click Add or Select Existing Connector and Click Modify
4. Click Open. Select the PureStorageUCSDirectorAdapter v3.1 (UCSD 6.7.2).zip
5. Click Upload, and then click Submit
6. If the connector is not listed as Enable, select the newly added psucs module and Click **Enable
7. Use SSH to connect to the Cisco UCS Director instance and log in as shelladmin (Default password is changeme)
8. To enable the Pure Storage Connector, stop all services (option 3), and then restart all services (option 4)
9. [Optional when deploying/updating to v3.1 connecter] Go to the Physical→ Storage→FlashArray account’s edit/modify button and provide the correct FlashArray IP Address (For more details check the Troubleshooting section in the User Guide)
10. Note: After Cisco UCS Director becomes available, be sure to check that the Pure Storage Connector is Enabled/Active.

Capacity and inventory report views

• Inventory Report
• Storage capacity Report
• Volume Report
• Host Report
• Host Group Report
• Protection Group Report
• Snapshot Report
• Network Report
• Host Connections Report
• FC Target Report
• IQN Target Report
• Pod Report
• Volume Group Report
• System Repot
• Space Report
• CloudSense Report

Five end to end workflows for ESXi deployments that include use of BMA (bare metal agent) PXE boot server.

• Advanced Fibre Channel end to end workflow that includes setup of Unified Compute System(UCS) template
• Advanced iSCSI end to end workflow that includes setup of UCS template
• Basic Fibre Channel end to end workflow that requires UCS template already setup on UCS Fabric Interconnect
• Basic iSCSI end to end workflow that requires UCS template already setup on UCS Fabric Interconnect
• VM provisioning specific to Pure Storage FlashArray

Additional Workflows

• Add FlashArray Protection Group
• Copy Snapshot from Volume
• Create FlashArray Host
• Create FlashArray Host Group
• Create FlashArray Host Group with Hosts
• Create FlashArray Host and Add initiators
• Create Volume
• Destroy FlashArray Protection Group
• Destroy FlashArray Snapshot
• Destroy Volume
• Eradicate Volume
• Remove FlashArray Host
• Remove FlashArray Host Group
• Resize FlashArray Volume
• Resize and expand Pure Storage Datastore

List of Tasks (all tasks include rollback tasks)

• Create Volume
• Destroy Volume(s)-suffix
• Clone Volume
• Restore Volume
• Create Volume Group
• Delete Volume Group
• Move Volume Into Volume Group
• Move Volume Out from Volume Group
• Create Host
• Delete Host
• Connect Volume(s) to Host
• Disconnect Volume(s) with Host
• Connect WWN(s)/IQN(s) to Host Create Host Group
• Delete Host Group
• Connect Host to Host Group
• Connect Volume(s) to Host Group
• Disconnect Volume(s) with Host Group
• Disconnect Hosts(s) with Host Group
• Add Volume to ProtectionGroup
• Add Host to ProtectionGroup
• Add Target to ProtectionGroup
• Create ProtectionGroup
• Create ProtectionGroup with HostGroup
• Delete ProtectionGroup
• Remove Target from ProtectionGroup
• Remove Volume From ProtectionGroup
• Clone Snapshot
• Delete Schedule Snapshot
• Delete Snapshot
• Schedule Volume Snapshot
• Create Vlan
• Delete Vlan
• Create Pod
• Delete Pod
• Move Volume into Pod
• Move Volume Out from Pod
• Add Array to Pod
• Connect Array

Support

The Pure Storage plugin for UCS Dirctor is supported by Pure Storage through its normal support channels.