Designed to simplify storage administration, the <strong>Celerra Plug-In for VMware</strong>, is a must for any Celerra administrator that wants save time and greatly ease the administrative burden and yes, deploy NFS data stores directly from vCenter! The key functionality driving the plug-in is the ability to provision new NFS data stores directly from the vCenter to multiple ESXi hosts with Celerra/VMware Best Practices -- automatically.
<h2><strong>Celerra Plug-In for VMware Key Features:
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* Array Based Compression - Reduces space consumed by virtual machines by up to 50 percent via enhanced compression
* Accelerates the cloning of virtual machines by two to three times
* Reduces the duration of virtual machine copies by using Full Clone technology
* Space-efficient Fast Clones
* Tight Integration with VMware View

To download the ZIP file to get started go <a href="https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Software_Download/EMC_Celerra_Plug-in_for_VMware.zip?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tTZWFyY2hSZXN1bHRzRXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwNTI4ZTg5LGRhdGFTb3VyY2U9RENUTV9lbl9VU18w"><strong>HERE</strong></a>:

For the EMC Celerra Plug-in for VMware Solution Guide go <a href="https://powerlink.emc.com/nsepn/webapps/btg548664833igtcuup4826/km/live1/en_US/Offering_Technical/Technical_Documentation/h6985-celerra-plug-in-vmware-solution-guide.pdf?mtcs=ZXZlbnRUeXBlPUttQ2xpY2tTZWFyY2hSZXN1bHRzRXZlbnQsZG9jdW1lbnRJZD0wOTAxNDA2NjgwNTBlZDVkLGRhdGFTb3VyY2U9RENUTV9lbl9VU18w"><strong>HERE</strong></a>:

EMC has put together a fantastic video which previews the greatness. You can find the video here: <strong><a href="http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/celerra-plug-in-vmware.htm">Space Efficiency and Automation with EMC Celerra Plug-in for VMware</a></strong>

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Installation of the plug-in is quick and more information can be found in the "<strong>Loading the Celerra Plug-in</strong>" section of the EMC Celerra Plug-in for VMware Solution Guide (found on powerlink). This is highly recommended reading. The setup takes no more than 5 minutes. The plug-in just needs the IP address, nasadmin credentials, and DHSM user name and password (that you'll configure during the setup):

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You will also notice an new Icon on the home page in vCenter too:

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It is very apparent at moments like these that the <a href="http://www.emc.com/campaign/global/vce/index.htm">VCE Coalition</a> is doing great things and delivering on their promise, "Unprecedented level of collaboration in development services and partner enablement that reduces risk in the infrastructure virtualization journey to the private cloud".

Great job VMware and EMC.  You hit a home run on this one!