Configuring LDAP Authentication for Unisphere on the VNX Whether you are configuring security for corporate compliance, or you want a central repository to manage user access, LDAP integration is becoming a major part of corporate infrastructure. Many of you may not realize this, but the VNX (as well as the older Clariion and Celerra) support LDAP integration, and after reading this blog post you will to. During this post I will cover the different steps (with pictures) requir...

The Great Community Experiment, While Successful, Draws to a Close If you follow me on Twitter, or have received email from my personal account, you’ve seen my tagline: “Social Media Mad Scientist”. I do think of myself that way. I really enjoy experimenting with it, trying new things to find out what works. Now, social media is new enough that — technically — we’re all really experimenting just by participating in it, but I like to play with the edges of things, figure out the controls,...

EMC Announces XtremSW Cache 2.0 Today EMC announced the availability of version 2.0 of their XtremSW Cache product. XtremSW Cache is EMC’s intelligent caching software. It allows storage admins to extend EMC’s FAST (Fully-Automated Storage Tiering) capabilities to server Flash. Doing so improves application performance by providing accelerated reads. Today, XtremSW Cache provides write-through caching (write-back caching is on the roadmap, but won’t be available in 2013). Version 2.0 ...

EMC Announces Next-Generation VNX – Takes It Full Multicore Today EMC announced the availability of the next generation of their VNX unified storage platform, previously codenamed “Rockies”. The new platform — actually available for purchase for the past month or so — which some are calling “VNX2”, offers a significant performance increase over the previous generation. Rather than VNX2, EMC refers to this generation as “MCx”, which stands for “Multi-Core Optimized”. Virtualization as a Stora...

DATA DOMAIN DD2200 Bring industry-leading data protection to your small to midrange data center with the Dell EMC Data Domain DD2200 system. Use this easy-to-manage platform to consolidate backup, archive, and disaster recovery. Dell EMC Data Domain deduplication technology offers better data protection that costs less to own. It’s the fastest deduplication storage on the market, so more backup jobs complete within your defined window, and Data Domain deduplication reduces the amount of disk...

EMC Data Domain DD2200 Review The EMC Data Domain DD2200 is a deduplication appliance for backup and archive data that is designed for small to midrange data centers. A recent addition to the Data Domain line, the DD2200 consolidates backup, archive, and disaster recovery into one easy-to-manage 2U rack unit platform. The device is offered in two configurations: either a 7 drive system with 7.5TB of usable space or a 12 drive system with 17.2TB of usable space. The DD2200 supports up to 4.7TB p...

Dell EMC SC9000 Review The Dell EMC SC9000 is Dell’s highest-performing all-flash and hybrid-storage-server solution of the SC Series, built on the legacy of the PowerEdge family and leveraging the latest Storage Center Operating System 7. During the last several months, the StorageReview Enterprise Test Lab has put the SC9000 through our application benchmark protocol to understand how it performs with real-world workloads. Our review also explores the ways that the SC9000 and SCOS 7 fit into ...

Introduction to VMAX3 with HYPERMAX OS The EMC VMAX3 family storage arrays deliver tier-1 scale-out multi-controller architecture with unmatched consolidation and efficiency for the enterprise. The VMAX3 family includes three models: l VMAX 100K - 2 - 4 controllers, 48 cores, 2TB cache, 1440 2.5" drives, 64 ports, 1.1 PBu l VMAX 200K - 2 - 8 controllers, 128 cores, 8TB cache, 2880 2.5" drives, 128 ports, 2.3 PBu l VMAX 400K - 2 - 16 controllers, 384 cores, 16TB cache, 5760 2.5" drives,...