Low End Unity SAN

Question

Hi, We are going to replace our CX4-240 FC SAN. Due to limited budget, we are considering HPE SMA 202052 SAS Dual Controller SFF Storage. Since we have previous experience with CX4 and VNX SAN, we wonder is there any low end Hybrid EMC Unity Product for SAS Connection ?  May I ask whether we can use tools similar to Unisphere Client to manage that Unity SAN ? Thanks

Rainer_EMC · Accepted Answer

If you mean directly connecting hosts via SAS to the storage systems - Unity doesnt support that

It offers Fibre Channel and ISCSI for this

There is a new low-end block only Dell storage system - the PowerVault ME4 series - that supports SAS direct connect

see here

It does use different management tools than CX or Unity

AndreD Dell · Answer

There are low end Dell EMC Unity systems, yes. You need to reach out to your sales rep to have a chat about options.

Unity UI (Unisphere) is all HTML5 based, so no more need for clients, etc. It's pretty smooth (GUI) compared to the java based UIs from past products.

Have a look at the Dell EMC Unity info hub:

Dell EMC Unity All-Flash & Hybrid Info Hub

As for your SAS question, not sure what you mean. SAS is only the backend connection to drives etc. So yes, Unity functions in this way also. For Front End, it can do block (FC and iSCSI) as well as File (SMB/NFS/multi) and much more.

Andre @ Dell EMC

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