This plugin is forked from HP3ParPlugin developed by Matt Day. This fork indents to add some addional settings to existing task as the HP 3Par API has evolved. Below is the original realease information from Matt Day.
This is an Open Automation plug-in which adds 3PAR support to Cisco UCS Director 5.4 or later.
The plugin is considered largely feature complete. Releases may be less often, but it will be maintained and tested with future UCS Director releases.
The project is released under a generous MIT-style license which means you can download it, change it and even charge for it provided the copyright is maintained. I'd request kindly that you send back any bugfixes as pull requests, but you have no obligation to do so.
For installation instructions see the bottom of this page.
There is no support or warranty for this plugin, implied or otherwise. You deploy it at your own risk. As of 2017 this plugin is no longer being maintained by the original author. If you require support or features you will need to provide them yourself or work with a professional services organisation such as Metsi or Vzure.
You should back-up your UCS Director database before using this plugin and test any new releases before deploying.
For more screenshots see the screenshots page.
- Ability to add a 3PAR physical storage account (and converged stack based on it)
- Converged/Physical view tab (list of volumes, CPGs and some graphs)
- Drilldown reports (double-click on items to see more information and graphs)
- List of values to pick various 3PAR assets for tasks
- Action buttons to perform each task via the GUI
- 30+ tasks
- Inventory collection and database caching
- Full support to create/delete VLUNs and Hosts
- Host sets
- Volume sets
See the issues tab to see what's in development and create a new issue for any features you'd like added!
You must have:
- A 3PAR system running OS 3.1.3 or later (with WSAPI 1.3 or later enabled, see below)
- Cisco UCS Director 5.4 or later (5.3.x and earlier is not supported)
You need to enable the WSAPI on your 3PAR array. The official instructions are available here.
Note: Your array must support WSAPI 1.3 or later (3PAR OS 3.1.3 or later) for all features to work correctly.
In a nutshell, you need to ssh to your 3PAR controller and issue the following command:
startwsapi
You can check the status by doing this:
showwsapi
The plugin supports both http and https and the latter is strongly recommended.
Please see the installation guide for information on how to compile and install this plugin.
This plugin includes 30+ tasks to integrate with your 3PAR storage array, including creating/modifying VLUNs, Volumes, CPGs and so on. You can use this in conjunction with other supported platforms in UCS Director to automate entire workflows seamlessly.
You can manage the system from UCS Director. Under the Converged view, or under Physical -> Storage. From here you can view information about the array, perform actions and drilldown into more detailled reports (either double-click or select the View Details button).
Most of this was lovingly ripped off (and inspired by) Russ Whitear's Nimble plugin (he was super helpful!)