Ask the Expert: Meet the EMC Unity Family

Hello Unity Experts,

I understand that a Unity power supply can provide power for both SPs in the event of one power supply failing.  Will it also be able to maintain charging the BBU in the SP with the failed power supply?

Thanks.   

Hi Alan,   Yes, a single power supply unit (PSU)  will supply power to the SP and charge the Battery.  One of the benefits of the new Battery-on-Bus architecture is it will charge whenever the PSU output is turned on (and charging is needed).

Thanks

Dan

is there a physical difference between the all-flash and hybrid DPE?

Hello Unity Experts,

I understand that CTA will be supporting Unity archiving in 2H2016.  Would it be correct to assume that Unity provides support for some type of stubbing functionality similar to VNX FileMover API?

Thanks,

Alan

Hi Patrick,  the all-flash and hybrid Drive Array Enclosures are physically the same. 

Yes, Unity will support CTA in  the 2H2016 however the implementation specifics are not available to be announced yet as things do change.

Hello Unity Experts,

I am trying to find more details regarding Unity integration with CloudIQ.   I see that CloudIQ.emc.com is available and was hoping it would have additional documentation, but while there is a Unity dashboard,  there doesn't appear to be any documentation on how that data is transferred to there from Unity,  how much and for how long Unity metrics are kept there, and user access administration.

Thanks,

CloudIQ is a new feature – implemented on Unity – that provides customers with a SaaS management platform for predicting/determining the overall health of your Unity systems (performance, configuration, alerts, etc.) based on analytics conducted and provided by EMC. Please understand that this is offered now as an Early Access Program (not full GA with all the features yet until later in 2016) and is available via cloudiq.emc.com where you find FAQs and can apply for Early Access with our Cloud Management team. Also, you will need a valid support agreement and EULA in place AND you will need to enable ESRS on your Unity systems so EMC can collect the requisite data and perform the analytics. Again, functionality is limited in this Early Access Program and this is described in the FAQs

Please work through your "Speed Guru Certified" EMC Channel Partner for this type of performance information.

Hello Unity Experts,

Do we have any documentation regarding Unity's SP core affinity?  When we came out with VNX2 MCx, we published a chart that showed core assignment to SP process.  Is there something similar available for Unity?

Thanks,

BTW, the ESRS connection is a “pull” connection

Hi Joecat,

Thank you for the quick reply on my question on CloudIQ.  I cannot find any FAQ on the CloudIQ.emc.com website.  As I mentioned it goes directly into a dashboard showing two systems.  I check every one of the task menus and also read through the help section,  again no FAQ were listed.  

Can you try accessing this way?

https://community.emc.com/community/products/unity

So the link should have brought you to the Unity ECN page where you would click on the CloudIQ icon. From there you are saying you saw the FAQs? ESRS thick pipe (MFT) is the way it connects a Unity system to EMC.