everything works like a charm once i have connected ESX servers with SAN connectivity to vSphere. I see storage capabilities and also could enable VM storage profiles for selected machines.  One thing- when i used SMI-S of solution Enabler for VASA provider, i could see some information from stroage but not all- also storage capabilities were shown but did not work when used for VM storage profiles (always said incompatible to all datastore although datastore met capabilities).  I changed to use directly VASA provider of EMC VNX storage which is possible since FLARE 32 and this works without issues.
Hi *.*  I am currently playing with integrating VNX block(s) into a vSphere5 environment. I have currently no ESX with active (external) storage connectivity but i already started to install plugins in vSphere. So here my question: I have installed EMC VSI and VASA plugins and VASA provider (i use still the SE SMI-S array provider although i have FLARE 32 on a VNX5100) and VASA recognizes VNX5100 correctly. Issue is now, i do not see any capabilities when i try to create a VM storage profile- could it be that this is due to lack of physical connectivity to VNX from ESX servers and no VM configuration is in place at VNX? Or do i get no capabilities if i only have a VNX5100 which only can handle VP but not FAST?  Any clue? Thanks for ideas
vSphere EMC VASA provider: storage capabilities