Dell Compellent Storage Center customers who use the legacy vSphere Client plug-in to manage their storage may have noticed that the upgrade to PowerCLI 5.5 R2 which released with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 essentially “broke” the plug-in. This forced customers to make the decision to stay on PowerCLI 5.5 in order to use the legacy vSphere Client plug-in, or reap the benefits of the PowerCLI 5.5 R2 upgrade with the downside being they had to abandon use of the legacy vSphere Client plug-in.
For those that are unaware, there is a 3rd option and that is to leverage vSphere’s next generation web client along with the web client plug-in released by Dell Compellent last year (I talked about it at VMworld 2013 which you can take a quick look at below).
Although VMware strongly encourages customers to migrate to the next generation web client long term, I’m here to tell you that in the interim Dell has revd the legacy client plug-in to version 1.7 which is now compatible with PowerCLI 5.5 R2. Both the legacy and web client plug-ins are free and quite beneficial from an operations standpoint so I encourage customers to get familiar with the tools and use them.
Other bug fixes in this 1.7 release include:
- Datastore name validation not handled properly
- Create Datastore, map existing volume – Server Mapping will be removed from SC whether or not it was created by VSP
- Add Raw Device wizard is not allowing to uncheck a host once selected
- Remove Raw Device wizard shows wrong volume size
- Update to use new code signing certificate
- Prevent Datastores & RDMs with underlying Live Volumes from being expanded or deleted
- Add support for additional Flash Optimized Storage Profiles that were added in SC 6.4.2
- Block size not offered when creating VMFS-3 Datastore from Datacenter menu item
- Add Raw Device wizard is not allowing a host within the same cluster as the select host to be unchecked once it has been selected
- Add RDM wizard – properties screen showing wrong or missing values
- Expire Replay wizard – no error reported if no replays selected
- Storage Consumption stats are wrong if a Disk folder has more than one Storage Type
