Unisphere for PowerMax – VMware integration VMware integration has been part of Unisphere in one way or another since it was called Symmetrix Management Console. In its more recent form it consisted of showing information about ESXi hosts, their VMs, and their storage. It even had the ability to allow the administrator to add RDMs to individual VMs. Unfortunately it had a couple of big drawbacks. Firstly, you could only add ESXi hosts and not vCenters. As most customers use large clusters of ESXi hosts in their vCenters, adding them individually was a non-starter. Secondly, in order to add an ESXi host you were required to use the root user, which many VMware admins were reticent to divulge. All in all then, it was a feature I saw used infrequently at best. Year after year I pushed for development to change the integration and at the very least offer users the chance to add vCenters in addition to ESXi hosts. The perseverance final...