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Can vVNX work with ViPR?
I've tried adding the vVNX to ViPR as a VNX file device and also adding it to SMI-S as a block device. Both fail. Is this because it emulates the VNXe, not the VNX?
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I've tried adding the vVNX to ViPR as a VNX file device and also adding it to SMI-S as a block device. Both fail. Is this because it emulates the VNXe, not the VNX?
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Anonymous
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May 20th, 2015 05:00
Hello CockneyUSA and Wei
Same issue occurred in my environment. I failed to recognized vVNX through smi-provider host also.
There are some comments on white paper for vVNX.
the vVNX system provides an on-array SMI-S v1.6 provider which can be used for both file and block file and block "operations. Any application which has the capability to leverage the SMI-S API can be used to discover and configure the vVNX system based on the supported operations."
vVNX seems be supported with SMI-provider. But why did the SMI-provider fail to identify vVNX?
Some finding for SMI-S, Only SMI-S 1.5 is available in EMC download. Is it a issue for this ?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Rainer_EMC
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May 14th, 2015 13:00
Its definitely closer to a VNXe than to a VNX block
I don’t think ViPR support it yet
chenw87
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May 14th, 2015 13:00
Yes, you cannot add it as a VNX device. There is an SMI-S provider on the vVNX though so you could try adding it as a VNXe3200.
CockneyUSA
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May 14th, 2015 13:00
Any idea how I do that? I've tried adding it as a storage provider and it fails to establish connection to the storage provider.
chenw87
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May 19th, 2015 08:00
Here you go:
ViPR 2.2 - Add EMC VNXe Storage to ViPR Using the ViPR REST API
CockneyUSA
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May 19th, 2015 10:00
Wei, I will try this when I get back to the data center.
PAC-MAN
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May 22nd, 2015 10:00
I think you are right, vVNX has on array SMI-S v1.6 provider. In ViPR controller support matrix SMI-S version 4.6.29 (v1.5) is listed as supported. All the lower versions are also supported. But the latest ones are not. SMI-S version used in vVNX seems to be still in development by SNIA. May be that's why ViPR does not support v1.6 yet.
http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/tech_programs/tech_activities/spec_activities
emc139668
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August 13th, 2015 03:00
Is there any update on vVNX supporting ViPR ?