Justin,
It does make sense. One of the benefits of the pirate pack is that it can be used by the Storage Administrators to provision and create the storage for VMware environments. Now, one of the biggest benefits is in consistency and standardization of provisioning. Instead of going into System Manager and provisioning new Volumes, Lun, iGroups as individual elements and then mounting with vCenter; the entire process can be streamlined and standardized.
On to your question, what you are asking is not terribly difficult to do but is not bundled into the Pirate Packs. The idea is that you want to pass an element (Volume or Lun) to the user inputs and then have WFA map it to the host (or export in the case of NFS) and follow that up with a call to vCenter to create the datastore. This can definitely be done.
I am working on a couple of new flows to find all of the NetApp storage in a specific ESX cluster and then set the access (exports or igroup) to the appropriate NetApp array for a newly added ESX host. In this case, I am not provisioning new storage but rather bringing a new blade online. I have this working pretty well for NFS for traditional Data ONTAP and clustered Data ONTAP. I still need to work on the VMFS portion (FCP and iSCSI).
Jeremy Goodrum, NetApp
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