Hi Michael,

From the update on the following post from Product Management https://community.emc.com/message/565951#565951

" NPIV will be supported in ProSphere, which is the next generation product replacing ECC."

NPIV will not be supported by ControlCenter 6.1 (emc180436)

The September update of the "EMC® Ionix™ ControlCenter® 6.1 Support Matrix P/N 300-006-384 REV A39" (currently available in Powerlink) adds the following footnote to "Table 30 Supported EMC/Brocade FOS switches" on page 116:

"h. Ionix ControlCenter does not support N Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV) / Brocade Access Gateway, Virtual fabrics & logical switches, and Administrative Domains features."

Regards

Conor

My understanding is that ProSphere does NOT (will NOT?) include functionality to manage SAN zone configuration.  Is that the case?

We plan to use the switch vendor's native tools (Cisco FabricManager, Brocade FOS) for zoning once we make the switch to ProSphere (which we have in a test environment today).

Hi,

In a future release, the plan is for ProSphere to integrate (Link & Launch) with native element and fabric management tools.  It will amalgamate data from these tools and allow users to launch into them in an appropriate context for diagnostic, performance, zoning and other activities.

Regards,

Seamus Coffey

Ionix SRM

Hi Pavel,

Support for Brocade NPIV/virtual fabrics is targetted for the 2.0 release of ProSphere before the end of this year.

If you have other specific ProSphere questions, then you can check out the new ProSphere forum at https://community.emc.com/community/support/prosphere

You can also find lots of information on ProSphere out on Powerlink under:  Products > Software P-R > ProSphere

Regards,

Seamus Coffey

Customer Support Services

Hi

Bad news coming from EMC really... ProShere cannot now provide all  important services like ECC does . Why should we use  this new software??? We want to use ECC for our blade systems.  And it turns out to be almost impossible... This is a very bad and very strange thing.

Pavel

Thank you Seamus.

But this is a really strange thing:   the old  EMC product  ECC is not capable to do basic monitoring  of SAN because of  unsupported NPIV & Virtual Fabrics features.  The oncoming product ProSpehere cannot do it also.

We  changed our SAN to go to Virtual Fabrics on Brocade DCX.    And we got even more problems... 

Regards, Pavel Tsvetkov

Hi Pavel,

Just to confirm again - ControlCenter does not/will not support NPIV/Virtual Fabrics;  however, ProSphere will target support for NPIV/Virtual Fabrics in the 2.0 release (provisionally Nov 2012).

Regards,

Seamus