How to add a ESX host to symapi Database

can you expand on what you are trying to do ? You want to manage your symm from ESX server, you want ot present storate from symm to your ESX to be used as datastore ?

I want to present storage to the ESX host and see all the ESX pertaining information like what Datastores reside on that ESX host or what is the storage provisioned for a Datastore so on and so forth. I can check all this info by logging into vCentre but this is not what I am looking at.

can't do it just with symcli, i just looked at SMC manual and there you can add vSphere server. Not sure how much visibility it will give you into VMware environment but worth a shot.

You actually can do this with SYMCLI. The command is called "symvm" and it allows you to veiw information about ESX or Hyper-V servers and was introduced in SE 7.2. This actually has more features than it's SMC counterpart at the moment as it was introduced a bit earlier. I wrote up information on how to use this in the most recent VMware/Symmetrix Techbook found here:

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/solution-overview/h2529-vmware-esx-svr-w-symmetrix-wp-ldv.pdf

Look in Chapter 2 (Management of EMC Symmetrix Arrays - Solutions Enabler) for a write up.

Thanks

Cody

Cody,

can symvm connect to  virtual center server or do i have to establish connection with each individual ESX server ?

thanks

Either one should work

i was able to authorize with the vCenter server ( i provided my AD credentials, not sure if it actually verifies them or simply accepts them). Tried to run any of the commands but getting nothing, here is viclient log:

I don’t have root nor any other access to the individual ESX hosts.

Seems like it only works with ESX hosts, not vCenter servers. Looking back at the release notes it only lists ESX servers, not vCenters. Try it with an ESX and see how that works.