Hi Chris,

Not entirely sure what you mean by host groups.

The only thing I can think of is Consistency Groups.

Have you checked if this serves the purpose of what you are trying to achieve?

Thanks

Andre @ Dell EMC

Hi Andre,

I think what Chris means is Storage Groups as we had previously with VNX/Clarion arrays.

How is this done on the Unity?

Thanks,

Paul.

Hi Paul,

The concept of Storage Group no longer exists in Unity.

Although we still use similar stuff under the hood, this is all removed from the customer experience.

The way to provide LUN access to hosts is done via the host access tab in the LUN options in Unisphere.

But I think Chris was actually asking about groups, not individual access.

Andre @ Dell EMC

Hey Paul,

That is correct.

Thx

-Chris

please make sure to open a PER (product enhancement request)

Any update on when this vital feature will be implemented?

The new Unity Unisphere was design to be user friendly. Missing storage groups is still completely counter productive

Thank you, good idea. I've submitted a PER.

I agree.  Storage groups, Initiator Groups, or Host Groups. Some way to assign (mask) hosts or their initiators to LUNs or groups of LUNs (CGs).  Otherwise it is tedious and error prone in larger envrionments.

storage groups are planned for a future release

as usual for roadmap question please talk to your local EMC or partner contact if you need details

Hi Rainer_EMC,

How sure are you this is a planned enhancement? i got the following answer to my Product Enhancement Request:

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Thank you for submitting your request.

We are aware of this gap in Unity compared to VNX and we are considering this feature for our future release. We do not have a committed timeline for this feature to be supported at this time but will announce once we know of a definite timeframe.

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In my opinion this doesn't sound like we can expect this functionality anytime soon

Hi Marcel,

I know from talking directly to the product manager responsible that it is definitely planned.

It is just not detemined yet which release it will make

Rainer

Hi Rainer,

Great to hear that!

Hoping it will make the next release

So everybody reading this thread. please send in you Product Enhancement Request at http://emcinformation.com/PERS/SI/

Hi Rainer,

It's over a year now later, but we still lack the Storage Group functionality.

Is this enhancement being dropped out of the pipeline?

it is still planned

If you have opened a PER you can ask on the answer EMail you probably have gotten.

Or engage with your local pre-sales

Has storage group functionality being added to Unity ?