Accessing Oracle FS Storage in vSphere

The Oracle FS System tab in the vSphere Client provides a view of storage utilization in your Oracle FS System. The Manage Oracle FS System Storage context menus in the vSphere Client provide access to storage management functions for your Oracle FS System.

You can view your Oracle FS System without any special account privileges, however, to modify storage objects, you need to have the appropriate administrator level privileges. In order to modify storage resources, use an Administrator 2 account on the Oracle FS System.

The Oracle FS System tab is visible when you select a host, virtual machine, or datastore in the Inventory pane for one of the following vSphere Client Inventory views:

Hosts and Clusters
VMs and Templates
Datastores

The following figure illustrates the vSphere inventory views:

Figure 1 vSphere inventory views

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1 Inventory views drop-down list

2 Host selected in the Inventory pane

3 Oracle FS System tab displayed in the content pane

To view your storage in relation to different storage objects, select the appropriate Inventory view for that object.

When you select a host in the Inventory pane, the Oracle FS System tab displays detailed information about the datastore, LUNs, and Oracle FS System associated with that host.
When you select a virtual machine (VM) in the Inventory pane, the Oracle FS System tab displays detailed information about the datastores and LUNs associated with that VM.
When you select a datastore in the Inventory pane, the Oracle FS System tab displays detailed information about the LUNs associated with that datastore.

You can manage storage objects in your Oracle FS System by selecting management functions from one of the available context menus.

The following figure illustrates the vSphere Client context menu for datastores:

Figure 2 vSphere Client context menu for datastores

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1 Datastore selected in the Inventory pane

2 Context menu

3 Management functions

The management function menu items that are available when you right-click a datacenter, host, or datastore in the inventory pane are listed in the following table.

Table 1 Manage Storage context menus
Datacenter	Host	Datastore
Manage LUNs	Manage LUNs	Volume Properties
Manage Volume Groups	Manage Volume Groups	Extend Datastore
Manage Storage Domains	Manage Storage Domains	Remove Datastore
Manage Host Groups	Manage Host Groups	Manage Snapshots
Create Datastore		Manage Snapshot Schedules
Manage Snapshot Schedules

The first time you open the Oracle FS System tab or click a Manage Oracle FS System Storage management task, an “untrusted certificate” warning appears. To avoid this warning, install the certificate for the plug-in in a trusted certificate store. See the instructions for installing the certificate.