installed the emc vnx vsa looking for exercises/tutorials ?

look at VNX File documentation, you can pretty much do anything on the VSA that you can on a physical VNX for File.

can you provide more detail, I did a search for vnx file documentation, I got a variety of hits. btw I installed the emc vnx vsa I am talking about the EMC VNX simulator, the UBER VNX (NFS) v1. I configured and have the emc unisphere browser. I am looking for exercises/ tutorials on the various functions, thx

this will get you started

https://support.emc.com/products/7855_Celerra-NS/HowToVideos

https://support.emc.com/search/?text=Configuring&product_id=82&resource=DOC_LIB&adv=y

Does anyone know if they will have a version that will offer block? Also, can more storage be added? FWIW, I have 8.1 VSA  running on WMworkstation 10 and my host laptop has 1 TB SSD storage. Thanks

no block planned

adding more storage should be possible - check the manual

Thank you for your reply. Is there a way to get some sort of training with block as you can with file with any

other product? Also, does anyone have a link to the manual... I have a couple of PDFs on this, but not much more.

I would like to clarify what I am asking. I am trying to accomplish two learning objectives. One is to learn storage, especially block storage since I am under the impression that it is more flexible than file. I would like to present storage out to VMware to make new servers and also, play around with Xenapp 6.5 PVS and possibly Xendesktop VDI and am under the impression, the way to be able to do that is with block. In the past when I played around with clustering Microsoft OS, I used something called FreeNAS to do the iSCSI.  But since I am trying to learn  real world products instead of freeware, I figured I would go ahead and use this VNX vsa, but it doesn't do block (iscsi) so I am limited? Is anybody aware of something I can use to meet my needs? Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Does the Celerra VMs support block?

iSCSI protocol is supported by Celerra.

Does anyone have a link to the newest celerra VSA? The ones on Nickpedia and Techhead don't work.

https://support.emc.com/docu48495_VNX_for_File_Simulator_Installation_and_Configuration_Guide_8.1.pdf?language=en_US

https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL49031_VNX_File_Simulator_(OE_8.1.0.15)_Single/Dual_Data_Mover_(zip_package).zip

https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL49032_VNX_File_Simulator_(OE_8.1.0.15)_Single/Dual_Data_Mover_(OVA_package).ova

only if you want to play with failover, need to allocate more memory to run two datamovers.

Thanks, but I have all that, but it doesn't do me any good since you said VNX doesn't support block and I want to learn how to present block WRT VMWARE and xendesktop. Someone just said that the Celerra VSA supports block and iscsi , so even though it is outdated, it is better in my mind to learn that instead of freeware.  I am assuming some of the skills from Celerra will transfer over even though it is outdated. Does anyone know what is the best place to get the newest Celerra VSA?

Thank you. Is there any benefit to getting two data movers on the older version as opposed to the newest version with one?

Celerra VSA supported iSCSI

https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL39171_Celerra_Simulator_5.6_-_One_Datamover.zip

https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL39170_Celerra_Simulator_5.6_-_Two_Datamovers.zip

https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL39165_Celerra_Simulator_6.0_-_One_Datamover.zip