Ask the Expert: All about what's new with VMAX in Q2 2013.

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YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED ON THESE ATE EVENTS... Ask the Expert: VMAX All Flash – Extreme Performance at Petabyte Scale, and Best PracticesAsk the Expert: VMAX3 New Features, Best Practices, Trouble-Shooting Tipshttps://community.emc.com/thread/177118 Learn what’s new with VMAX in Q2 2013 EMC VMAX is the world’s most powerful, trusted, and smart storage, providing over 5-nines availability for mission-critical applications and software-defined data centers   Learn about new features that make VMAX more trusted, faster, and easier to manage in a software-defined storage environment. This discussion begins on Tuesday, April  30 at 12 pm EST. Get ready by bookmarking this page or signing up for email notifications. The thread will be open and moderated through May 14th. Your hosts: Matty1918 Matt Acord has been in the IT business for 14 years, 9 of those with EMC. Sincehe joined aEMC he has  worked in the PSE lab and was one of the SRDF/A SMEs in the lab and Tech Support. In ESD Matt worked with Tier I partners in configuring their frames, migrating data and keeping them up to date with new EMC technologies. Matt is currently a Senior Corporate Systems Engineer where he focuses on hardware for all the VMAX families and D@RE. PaulDLorusso Paul Lorusso is a principle product manager on the VMAX hardware platform product management team. He has previous design engineering, engineering management, and product and program management experience from Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer, and Hewlett-Packard. Paul holds a BSME from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.

Mabro1 · Answer

Following today's press release, we are delighted to open up this discussion on what's new with VMAX. We look forward to a fun, collaborative and informative discussion. Regards, Mark

dynamox · Answer

so what are you Symm guys are most excited to see in this new version, which of the new features has been the most requested by customers ?

PaulDLorusso · Answer

Matty,

Well said, drive CRU, especially with additional cabinet locater capability will be very useful —also adding IBMi support to VMAX 10K is helpful to open up more opportunity for VMAX to penetrate into more price sensitive markets requiring IBMi host attach.

Regards,

Paul

LeeGoodwin · Answer

Matty,

Yes a very exiting feature both labour and cost saving for both customer and EMC, what does the customer do to start the replace procedure.

Is is menu driven click click click replace, does a light come on to show the CAB, DAE and disk?

is there a minimum level of skill that will allow access so limited by access level ?

Lee

PaulDLorusso · Answer

Lee The CRU process is a fully scripted process, and indeed works directly with cabinet, DAE, and drive locaters via blinking lights to locate the replacement drive. Paul Sent from my iPhone

LeeGoodwin · Answer

Matt,

I have worked for another major vendor and the closed loop approach that is a feature that can be enabled is just a really great and unique idea.

The choice is back with the customer and that is a great move.

John_F_Kim · Answer

How does one use the new Offline Performance Viewer and what kinds of performance analysis can you do with it?  Can you provide a screenshot?

Fenglin1 · Answer

Hi Matt, May I ask if the CRU script support the Muti-Language? thanks

dynamox · Answer

So customer needs to run ECC server and then you import btp files inside of this appliance? Is this appliance free and available to all customers? Thank you

John_F_Kim · Answer

So does FAST VP now work across all SRDF 3-site and 4-site configurations?

dynamox · Answer

Matt,

i got to see Performance Viewer at EMC World (VMAX booth), it's really slick and i think it will allow me to finally decommission EMC ControlCenter that we use for WLA archives. I tried to search for PV on support.emc.com and could not find it, does it also require Unisphere for VMAX 1.6 ? ( that i don't see on under downloads either).

Thanks

dynamox · Answer

i am currently running SPA 2.2.2 so looking at this as an opportunity to upgrade to Uni for VMAX 1.6 (will need to go through database conversion). Do you by any chance know the path to download Unisphere for VMAX installer. Searching on support.emc.com did not generate any results (searched for UNIVMAX_V1.6.0.x_WINDOWS_X86_64.exe)

Thank you

dynamox · Answer

thank you vTrooper, do i need to use Unisphere for VMAX 1.6 to generate upv files for PV ?

dynamox · Answer

i guess what i am really trying to find is Unisphere for VMAX 1.6 with Performance , but Windows installer ..not the appliance.

dynamox · Answer

thanks for the links to ISO files. What do you mean "run the 1.6 from the ISO and reimport the data as above". I am going to install Unisphere 1.6 on Win2k8 R2 server where i currently run SPA/SMC. Preferably i would like to keep my historical data that is currently stored in SPA so i assume that's what the SPA DB Backup utility will do for me.

Where did you see the requirement that in order to go to Unisphere 1.6 from SPA 2.2.1 i would first have to go to Unisphere 1.0.0 ..can't find anything about that in 1.6 Release notes.

Thank you for your help

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