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amediratta
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December 20th, 2010 04:00
VMAX over DMX
My customer is using DMX-3 and wants to upgrade to Vmax(Exploring if upgrade gives him many benefits). Please send me a link to some document that details the benefits of upgrading from DMX to VMAX OR what new features do we have in VMAX that we did nto have in DMX. I am new to Symmetrix. Please help.
When amediratta said "upgrade", I'm sure they meant replace the DMX with VMAX.
There are lots of advantages to VMAX over DMX3.
Some I can think of off the top of my head:
Enterprise Flash Drive support
FAST for VP
RAID virtual architecture, allowing any to any RAID migrations and minimizing mirror position use
Twice the possible front end ports
Up to 3 times the system performance
not sure you can assume that, people who work with Clariions are accustomed to data-in-place upgrades between arrays families (CX3 to CX4) for example.
Quincy56 wrote:
When amediratta said "upgrade", I'm sure they meant replace the DMX with VMAX.
aTECJhQ8T711981
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Posted December 24th, 2010 00:00
Hi amediratta,
You might find this documentation useful,
DMX-3 specifications http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/c1304-dmx3-ss.pdf
VMAX specifications http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/specification-sheet/h6176-symmetrix-vmax-storage-system.pdf
You can see the comparisons between the two symmetrix products.
Regards,
Joe.
Andy261983
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Posted December 24th, 2010 01:00
Over the architechural and other advantages mentioned by Quincy56 and others, the best thing what I think was really beneficial from end user perspective is the Auto Provisioning facility which started with Vmax and 5874 code.
It made life easier when there was a need to provision storage to a new host or a existing hosts. the overall steps have been reduced and the amount of time taken for provisioning is drastically reduced.
Cheers
Andy.
migrationmask
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Posted December 24th, 2010 06:00
I strongly agree with that - the Clariion simplicity is integrated with the DMX architecture and it makes life a lot easier - no more seraching for free addresses on the FA's and no more waiting for 40+ minutes for mapping - its all simple
Having been in the middle of moving all my 1600+ servers from 6 DMX-3's to 2 VMAX frames I can say that its a herculous task by itself.
But if you want to be there you have to take that journey.
amediratta
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Posted December 20th, 2010 05:00
OK, what benefits do you get by migrating?