ETERNUS VASA Provider is a program designed to support VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA). By installing this program to the management server of ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser (paid software), ETERNUS AF/ETERNUS DX can be managed in VMware VASA environment and use vSphere Virutual Volume.

For ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser 16

To use this program, the following products and programs are required.

  • ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser (Fujitsu product.)
  • ETERNUS VASA Provider (Free of charge). This program should be installed with ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser Manager. It can be downloaded below.

For ETERNUS VASA Provider support, please contact your technical product support for ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser.

Features of ETERNUS VASA Provider include:

vSphere Virtual Volumes ETERNUS AF or ETERNUS DX S5/S4/S3 (except ETERNUS DX60 S5/S4/S3) support vSphere Virtual Volumes in VMware vSphere 6.0.
BlockDevice Profile Provide LUN attribute information of ETERNUS.
Capability Profile

Operating environment

All-Flash Arrays ETERNUS AF150 S3
ETERNUS AF250 S3/AF250 S2/AF250
ETERNUS AF650 S3/AF650 S2/AF650
ETERNUS DX200F
Hybrid Storage Systems/
Disk Storage System [1]
ETERNUS DX60 S5/S4/S3
ETERNUS DX100 S5/S4/S3, DX200 S5/S4/S3
ETERNUS DX500 S5/S4/S3, DX600 S5/S4/S3
ETERNUS DX900 S5[2]
ETERNUS DX8700 S3[2], DX8900 S4[2]/S3 [2]
ETERNUS DX60 S2/DX60
ETERNUS DX80 S2/DX80
ETERNUS DX90 S2/DX90
ETERNUS DX400 S2/DX400 series
ETERNUS DX8000 S2/DX8000 series
(Except SAS models)
OS (for ETERNUS VASA Provider) Microsoft® Windows Server® 2022
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2019
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016
VMware® VMware vSphere 8.0 Standard
VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise
VMware vSphere 8.0 Enterprise Plus
VMware vSphere 7.0 Standard
VMware vSphere 7.0 Enterprise
VMware vSphere 7.0 Enterprise Plus
VMware® vCenter® Server 7.0, 8.0
ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser V16.2,
V16.3 [2], V16.4 [2], V16.5 [2], V16.6 [2], V16.7 [2], V16.8 [2], V16.9 [2]

As of January 23, 2024

Download

Program and Document Size Release Date
ETERNUS VASA Provider V3.0.10 [3][4][5]
(ETERNUS VMware Support Package(version 039.001.000)))
md5 checksum: d2fa79b6a41b13164357e6a49a7550f3
124 MB December 21, 2022
Documents
md5 checksum: 77234163062480b25c76293ac6aa0bc8
- ETERNUS VASA Provider 3.0 User's Guide
- ETERNUS VASA Provider 3.x Release Note
- Use Conditions for Open source software
2,709 KB December 21, 2022

[1] The capability information display for LUN concatenation volume and wide striping volume are not supported.
[2] ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser do not support ETERNUS VASA Provider V1.x
[3] ETERNUS VASA Provider V3.x is enclosed in ETERNUS VMware Support Package. Installing ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser V16.4 and later and the latest patch are required to use ETERNUS VASA Provider V3.x.
[4] When used on VMware vSphere 7.0, installing ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser V16.8 or later and the latest patch are required.
[5] When used on VMware vSphere 8.0, installing ETERNUS VASA Provider V3.0.10 or later, ETERNUS SF Storage Cruiser V16.9 or later and the latest patch are required.