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mtiesman1

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April 23rd, 2008 11:00

Anyone using SMC 6.1 - Virtual Provisioning

I wanted to find out from any of the forum members their thoughts on SMC 6.1 and using Virtual Provisioning feature. We are currently looking at going to SMC 6.1 with the added feature of VP. We wanted to get some feedback as to how people are liking it. We tried the previous version of SMC and had severe issues with it conflicting with scripts that were running. More specifically we were having scripts fail right in the middle of executing because SMC was getting access to resources that should have be locked by the current script running in turn failing the script. Thanks!!

EdwinVanMierlo

39 Posts

May 1st, 2008 05:00

First of all Virtual Provisioning is a function of the Storage Array, not SMC.

so are you asking the community to respond with opinions of Virtual Provisioning, or are you looking for responses in regards to SMC 6.1 ?

Please clarify

rgds,
Edwin.

mtiesman1

6 Posts

May 1st, 2008 09:00

I Know thin provisioning is part of the array functionality, but SMC is used to help facilitate the use of that feature. Getting thoughts on both would be great, but really I was looking for opinions on SMC 6.1. As I said in my main post we had serious resource contention issues running previous version of SMC.

DippityDell

79 Posts

March 20th, 2009 12:00

If you are having resource issues, try adding more gatekeepers. If you are running SMC, scripts, and ECC symmetrix agents on the same host, better have a good amount of GK's.

I have a customer that absolutely loves SMC. It is the preferred method for managing the Symmetrix. It is very lean and efficient. Provides some decent detailed performance with the assistance of SPA.

pacmansan

16 Posts

October 6th, 2011 06:00

We are running SMC 7.1 on our V-Max SAN. I believe you will need 7.3 to take advantage of VP through SMC.

We are anpout to upgarde to 7.3 for this reason.

7.1 runs fine for us no real issues. The same as most EMC software speed of the front end could be improved.

Let me know if you want any more info once I am done upgrading.

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