Tuesday 26 January 2016

EMC vVNX (Software Defined Storage)

DEPLOYMENT & CONFIGURATION
  • Virtual VNX (vVNX) is a software stack that provides many VNX features. It allows VNXe software to be available as a downloadable virtual storage appliance (VSA) for use with a VMware ESX or ESXi hypervisor. 
  • Most of the folks who wants to test the new feature of VMware for the Software Defined Storage i.e VVOL like most of us have came across so far can test with the help of this solution by EMC ie.  VVols technical preview for vVNX from their website.
  • It is available as an OVA (Appliance )which requires
       -M inimum RAM or what i can say from my observation is exactly 12288MB (12GB)
       -Disk format for this appliance by     EMC is Thick Provision Eager Zero.
       - 2 CPU
  • For the first login USERNAME & PASSWORD for login into terminal for verifying the settings is service\service but in order to access the Unisphere USERNAME:admin, Password: Password123#.



















  • In my next post i will share how you can create a storage pool, LUN, NFS & vVOL.




https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-42029?attachmentName=vVNX_Install_Guide.pdf&attachmentURL=/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/42029-102-11-144283/vVNX_Install_Guide.pdf
https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-44385
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3 comments:

  1. Maximus8118326 January 2016 at 23:19

    Thanks for the basic info. It was a nice read. Whenever you get some time, pls throw some light on vvol creation.

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  2. Israel Natural Gas27 July 2017 at 22:25

    Very informative article... Thanks for providing complete details on software define storage through this blog. Very helpful blog.

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