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Ask the Expert: Meet the EMC Unity Family
Welcome to this Ask the Expert conversation. The Unity Family of unified storage solutions is the latest midrange storage product line from EMC. These systems define new standards for simplicity, flexibility and affordability, enabling organizations to take a truly modern approach to consolidating their storage infrastructure.
Now you can take advantage of the opportunity to learn about these new systems first hand, by engaging with EMC subject matter experts to answer your questions in an interactive ask the experts session.
Overview Video:
http://www.emc.com/video-collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/modernize-simplify-with-unity.htm
EMC Unity All Flash Data Sheet: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/dataandspecsheet/h14955-unity-all-flash-family-ds.pdf
EMC Unity Hybrid Storage Data Sheet: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/dataandspecsheet/h14956-unity-hybrid-family-ds.pdf
EMC UnityVSA Solution Overview: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/solutionoverview/h14959-unity-vsa-so.pdf
SMEs will be available to answer questions on a number of topics including: hardware and software product features; operation and best practices; availability and configuration; online documentation; available EMC product education and training; and more.
Meet Your Experts:
| Joe Scala Product Manager Joe has more than 20 years in the high-tech industry. Responsible for developing product requirements and driving innovative roadmaps based on customer requirements and advances in technology. |
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Product Manager Product Manager in Midrange Storage for 13 years |
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Corporate Systems Engineer RTS (Regional Tech. Support Engineer) at EMC Corporation from 2000 until 2005. LRS (Lead Regional Support) at EMC Corporation from 2005 until 2010. AFSS (Advisory Field Service Support) at EMC Corporation from 2010 until 2014. Since 12.01.2014 employed as CSE (Corporate Systems Engineer) at EMC Corporation. |
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Product Marketing Manager Joe is a Product Marketing Manager with the EMC Core Technologies Division focused on VNX storage products and solutions. He has over 25 years of product and channel marketing experience in storage hardware/software, asset management, and CAD technology. Joe has been instrumental in the development and execution of go-to-market plans, product launches, and other facets of product marketing. Joe holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (Sigma Epsilon Rho) from Northeastern University as well as a degree in Architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology. |
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| Anirudha Accanoor Senior Technical Content Developer Anirudha is a Sr. Technical Content Developer with the Core Technologies Division of EMC. During his tenure, he has been primarily involved with technical documentation for the Mid-range systems. Anirudha has been instrumental in setting up Info Hubs for the mid-range products, and has a keen interest in community engagement to make the documentation better, which in turn will result in a better experience for the users. |
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Training Developer EMC employee since 2000. Have been in support role for CLARiiON and Celerra. Currently in Education Services core technologies content development team. I developing training for VNX & VNXe storage products. Focus is on file storage. |
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| Corporate Systems Engineer 2001-2010, Solution Architect in EMC Professional Service, covering Symmetrix and Celerra. 2010-2014, RecoverPoint and VPLEX Corporate System Engineer. VNX Corporate System Engineer since 2014. |
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khanz1
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May 5th, 2016 09:00
Also check out the specifications sheet for additional information:
Unity Hybrid
Unity All Flash
and Hardware Information Guide
Anonymous
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May 5th, 2016 10:00
Hi Alan,
Since the CloudIQ is in an Early Access program, we only provided minimal documentation (via the online help in the portal itself). Thanks for asking the question about documentation and looking for the FAQs document. My apologies that there seems to be some confusion around the availability of an FAQs document. I will check back with the team to see whether we have similar content available in another format.
We are always looking at creating documentation that users like you can most benefit from. If you can let us know, for the application like CloudIQ, what you expected to see (in addition to or in lieu of the FAQs) as documentation, that'd be of great help!
Thank you!!
boyler05
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May 5th, 2016 11:00
In Unity, can a given LUN be serviced by both SPs at the same time, as in a "true" Active/Active array like XtremIO, or is ALUA still used where each LUN is serviced by only SP A or SP B at a given time (but front-end connections can come through both SP's IO modules at the same time)?
joecat1
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May 5th, 2016 12:00
CloudIQ FAQs are called "Guidelines" and are accessible via the Unity EMC Community page (just scoll down to the CloudIQ icon) https://community.emc.com/community/products/unity
Rainer_EMC
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May 5th, 2016 12:00
it's ALUA
Rainer_EMC
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May 5th, 2016 18:00
same controllers and DAE's
kiruthikag
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May 5th, 2016 18:00
Hi Bill,
Expanding on Rainer's response above, In Unity, the LUNs are in ALUA mode and IO for a LUN can be received by either or both SPs but are processed by only one SP.
Thanks !
Nori_Ishitsuka
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May 5th, 2016 19:00
Hi Experts,
I've read the some e-Learning, Unity likes VNXe2 architecture I think.
So I have one worry.
That is Fail safe network for File service.
VNXe2 is not support FSN, Unity is supported that?
Some documents writes "supported" but local engineer said "not supported".
Which information is correct?
And if "not supported" is true, do you have plan to support FSN?
Regards.
khanz1
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May 5th, 2016 20:00
quick note that for HA on the file resources link aggregation is recommended; check out the EMC Unity Best Practices guide
thakala
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May 5th, 2016 22:00
Q1: Are there any plans to add support for NFS v4.1 with session trunking to allow NFS multipathing with ESXi 6.x?
Q2: Is it possible to create fast clones of VMs by default when cloning a vSphere VM? It seems that VMs on VVOL or NFS datastores are being cloned as full clones when using vSphere Web/Legacy Client cloning functions.
arthur.r.olivei
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May 6th, 2016 05:00
Hi Experts, about Monitoring the System Performance.
According to the papper "Monitoring System Performance H14978 REV 01", the historical data is limit to the maximum retetation period of 90 days and the size of 16GB for the logs.
Is there any way to customize this?
joecat1
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May 6th, 2016 06:00
There is no difference between a Unity AF DPE and a Unity Hybrid DPE.
arthur.r.olivei
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May 6th, 2016 07:00
About Asynchronous replication and metrics reports.
Do we still have information about Data LAG and RPO between replicas as currently available on the VNX2 Analyzer?
sk_
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May 6th, 2016 09:00
Does Unity have any dedup features, like VNX2 has for Block (post process)?
Tried to look at docs, but didn't see this mentioned.
kiruthikag
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May 6th, 2016 10:00
Hi Sami,
Dedup is not supported on Unity, however we are planning on supporting Inline compression for block LUNs in All Flash configuration or All Flash pools within hybrid configuration by end of this year.
Thanks !