Core pool management simplifies the administration of large installations in which you need to deploy several Cores. Pool management enables you to manage storage configuration and check storage-related reports on all the Cores from a single Management Console.

Pool management is especially relevant to Core deployments when LUNs are provided over Fibre Channel. VMware ESX has a limitation for raw device mapping (RDM) LUNs, which limits Core to 60 LUNs.

You can enable access to the SteelHead REST API framework. This access enables you to generate a REST API access code for use in Core pool management. You can access the REST API by choosing Configure > Pool Management: REST API Access.