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Ask the Expert: Meet the EMC Unity Family
Welcome to this Ask the Expert conversation. The Unity Family of unified storage solutions is the latest midrange storage product line from EMC. These systems define new standards for simplicity, flexibility and affordability, enabling organizations to take a truly modern approach to consolidating their storage infrastructure.
Now you can take advantage of the opportunity to learn about these new systems first hand, by engaging with EMC subject matter experts to answer your questions in an interactive ask the experts session.
Overview Video:
http://www.emc.com/video-collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/modernize-simplify-with-unity.htm
EMC Unity All Flash Data Sheet: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/dataandspecsheet/h14955-unity-all-flash-family-ds.pdf
EMC Unity Hybrid Storage Data Sheet: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/dataandspecsheet/h14956-unity-hybrid-family-ds.pdf
EMC UnityVSA Solution Overview: http://www.emc.com/auth/rcoll/solutionoverview/h14959-unity-vsa-so.pdf
SMEs will be available to answer questions on a number of topics including: hardware and software product features; operation and best practices; availability and configuration; online documentation; available EMC product education and training; and more.
Meet Your Experts:
| Joe Scala Product Manager Joe has more than 20 years in the high-tech industry. Responsible for developing product requirements and driving innovative roadmaps based on customer requirements and advances in technology. |
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Product Manager Product Manager in Midrange Storage for 13 years |
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Corporate Systems Engineer RTS (Regional Tech. Support Engineer) at EMC Corporation from 2000 until 2005. LRS (Lead Regional Support) at EMC Corporation from 2005 until 2010. AFSS (Advisory Field Service Support) at EMC Corporation from 2010 until 2014. Since 12.01.2014 employed as CSE (Corporate Systems Engineer) at EMC Corporation. |
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Product Marketing Manager Joe is a Product Marketing Manager with the EMC Core Technologies Division focused on VNX storage products and solutions. He has over 25 years of product and channel marketing experience in storage hardware/software, asset management, and CAD technology. Joe has been instrumental in the development and execution of go-to-market plans, product launches, and other facets of product marketing. Joe holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (Sigma Epsilon Rho) from Northeastern University as well as a degree in Architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology. |
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| Anirudha Accanoor Senior Technical Content Developer Anirudha is a Sr. Technical Content Developer with the Core Technologies Division of EMC. During his tenure, he has been primarily involved with technical documentation for the Mid-range systems. Anirudha has been instrumental in setting up Info Hubs for the mid-range products, and has a keen interest in community engagement to make the documentation better, which in turn will result in a better experience for the users. |
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Training Developer EMC employee since 2000. Have been in support role for CLARiiON and Celerra. Currently in Education Services core technologies content development team. I developing training for VNX & VNXe storage products. Focus is on file storage. |
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| Corporate Systems Engineer 2001-2010, Solution Architect in EMC Professional Service, covering Symmetrix and Celerra. 2010-2014, RecoverPoint and VPLEX Corporate System Engineer. VNX Corporate System Engineer since 2014. |
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compus
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May 11th, 2016 06:00
Hi All,
During replication in CIFS Environment, the Destination NAS Server/Filesystem Can Access (Read Only) without failover ?
boyler05
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May 11th, 2016 10:00
Does each Unity SP boot from the internal M.2 SSD drive? I know that the M.2 drive is used for vault data, but I was not sure if the SP also boots from this drive.
joecat1
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May 11th, 2016 11:00
Unity boots from the MSATA drive on the SP
Anonymous
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May 11th, 2016 11:00
Hi Bill, yes each SP will initially boot from the internal M.2 device.
boyler05
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May 11th, 2016 13:00
Hello, I see that "Fail-Safe Networking" is shown in the Spec Sheet for Unity, but I can't find any documentation on how to enable Fail-Safe Networking. I know that the VNXe did not support Fail-Safe Networking, so I wanted to see if this is supported on Unity, or if the Spec Sheet is incorrect. Thanks!
khanz1
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May 11th, 2016 14:00
FSN is not supported. I will communicate to have the information updated on the spec sheet.
Jeffey1
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May 12th, 2016 02:00
Hi Unity experts.
I'm wondering if storage pool only supports Thin LUNs in Unity? Because I got 2 different answers from e-learning and PDF?
mawatarai
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May 12th, 2016 03:00
I have five question.
1.This is KB for VNXe but is this KB also applicable to Unity? https://support.emc.com/kb/468015
It says you need to have 16% empty space in pool to make NAS server, otherwise you cannot create one.
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This is KB for VNXe but is this KB also applicable to Unity? https://support.emc.com/kb/465997
When it is NOT over-subscribed, PUHC will fail unless VNXe have more than 5% empty space in the pool.
If so, could you describe how much empty space you need in a pool to upgrade OS.
3.Do you have any recommendation percentage for how much snapshot you need for Unity file and block?
4.Do you recommend to create a pool with system drives or do you not recommend for Unity?
5.When you set multi interfaces for replication, can you set a replication interface per replication session?
kiruthikag
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May 12th, 2016 06:00
Hello King
Addressing #4 Do you recommend to create a pool with system drives or do you not recommend for Unity?
Our recommendation is to not use system drives to start with, because we reserve a portion of system drive for system related storage and so the performance of those drives may not be comparable with similar drives in the pool. But if you run out of space in the other drives and need to use system drives then it is okay to use them.
Thanks !
kiruthikag
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May 12th, 2016 07:00
Hi Jeffey,
In Unity, Unisphere lets you create only thin LUNs and our recommendation is to stick with thin LUNs.
However, in rare cases if thick LUN is required for a specific scenario we may be able to provide an option to create thick LUN via CLI.
kiruthikag
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May 12th, 2016 08:00
Hi Compus,
The Destination NAS Server/Filesystem cannot be accessed without failover.
Thanks !
mawatarai
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May 12th, 2016 22:00
Hi all
Can i replace CNA port to 10G from FC16G physically?
It does not matter if you need to power off the machine to do it.
Rainer_EMC
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May 13th, 2016 02:00
currently the CNA port type cannot be changed once it is persisted.
Rainer_EMC
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May 13th, 2016 02:00
Keep in mind that these days FSN isnt as useful as it once was.
In my experience FSN's were used mainly for two reasons:
1. to connect to two different switches in case a switch fails
2. to save cost and have the standby interface on slower less expensive links
These days most switches can do cross stack/chasis LACP so it is much more popular to solve it this way where you can utilize all links and not have standby links
boyler05
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May 13th, 2016 06:00
Yes, we typically configure LACP across switches (so that SP A is connected to both Switch A and Switch B with cross-switch LACP), so normally we don't need Fail-Safe Networking. However, you'd be surprised how many customers still have switches that don't support cross-switch LACP. For these customers, they are forced to connect SP A to Switch A only, and in the case of a switch failure, they lose their CIFS or NFS connectivity on SP A. Is there an advanced setting in Unity to allow for NAS server failover to occur when the physical Ethernet links go down? If so, this might negate the need for FSN, because the NAS server would failover to SP B, which would be connected to Switch B.