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EMC ViPR Overview

May 20, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

EMC showed off ViPR (previously known as Project Bourne) at EMC World 2013. ViPR is EMC’s solution for Software Defined Storage (SDS), helping to round out the EMC² family’s (EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA) Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) vision. Dave provided our introductory coverage of ViPR here. Since being unveild at EMC World, I’ve heard some confusion in social media circles over what exactly ViPR is – along the lines of ‘ask 10 people what ViPR is and get 10 different answers’. To try to clear up some confusion, here is a brief overview of ViPR... [Continue Reading on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, Storage Tagged With: EMC, ViPR

Pivotal Announcements

May 8, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

Interested in learning more about the joint EMC-VMware Pivotal startup? Yesterday at EMC World 2013, Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz took the stage for a keynote to talk a bit about what Pivotal is, why it matters, and how the combination of EMC and VMware assets (think Greenplum, vFabric, GemFire, SQLFire) have already produced products for customers' most demanding big data / fast data challenges. I've got a quick write-up published on Clearpath's Blog, with some pictures on how the combined products from both EMC and VMware fit into the Pivotal initiative. Continue reading... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld, VMware Tagged With: big data, EMC, emcworld, pivotal, VMware

EMC Elect Shirts!

May 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it's awesome working for an awesome company that supports the greater EMC, VMware and Cisco communities. The inaugural class of EMC Elect are finding the custom shirts that Clearpath had made for them at EMC World. The shirts are just one of our ways of saying thanks to the EMC Elect for their contributions to the EMC community. If you are one of the EMC Elect, make sure you stop by the Bloggers area at EMC World to pick up your custom shirt! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC, EMCWorld Tagged With: community, EMC Elect, emcworld

EMC DataDomain DDOS 5.3 Released

May 7, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

The Clearpath team is attending EMC's EMCworld event in Las Vegas this week. EMC is announcing new products and solutions, and we'll be covering those announcements in a series of posts on the Clearpath Blog. If you're not already following Clearpath, feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed or fill out the form for email updates on our site. The first update of the week is from Ted Evans, our Baltimore area pre-sales technical consultant. Ted writes about EMC's DataDomain OS upgrade (DDOS) to version 5.3. 5.3 includes a host of improvements that will improve backup performance using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Clearpath, EMC Tagged With: datadomain, EMC, emcworld

Configuring VMware VASA for EMC VNX

March 11, 2013 By Josh Townsend 2 Comments

vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) are one of several VMware vSphere Storage APIs. VASA, new in vSphere 5.0, provides vCenter with a way of interrogating storage array LUNs and associated datastores to gain visibility into the underlying hardware and configuration of the storage layer. Storage capabilities, such as RAID level, thin or thick LUN provisioning, replication state, caching mechanisms, and auto-tiering are presented through VASA to vCenter (a unidirectional read operation by vCenter against the array). With VASA, vCenter can identify which datastores possess … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EMC, Storage, vCloud, VMware, VMware How To, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware vSphere Tagged With: API, Automation, Datastore, IOPS, lun, performance, replication, SAN, SDDC, SDRS, Storage, VASA, vsphere

EMC Releases VNXe Update with SRM, Writeable Snapshots, Encryption and More!

January 24, 2013 By Josh Townsend Leave a Comment

Over on the Clearpath blog I posted an article on the newly released EMC VNXe Operating Environment (OE) code update. The update includes support for data-at-rest and data-in-flight (via SMB 3.0) encryption, SRM support, promotion of snapshots to read-write for VMware NFS datastores, and some new options for RAID group configurations. Here's a peek at the post: EMC released VNXe Operating Environment MR4 (version 2.4.20932) on January 7th. The upgrade brings a few significant enhancements to the VNXe platform. Before I cover the new features, let’s have a quick look at the VNXe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EMC, VMware Tagged With: EMC, Encryption, raid, Storage, VNXe

EMC Elect 2013 Awardees Announced

January 15, 2013 By Josh Townsend 1 Comment

EMC announced today the inaugural 2013 class of EMC Elect. The EMC Elect program, announced in November, recognizes EMC community including customers, partners, EMC employees, analysts and independent voices for going above and beyond to share their knowledge, collaborate, communicate (on social media, the EMC Community Network, at events like EMC World, etc.), and for being generally awesome in their EMC area of expertise. A panel of highly respected foundering members of the EMC Elect were chosen for their extensive participation with EMC as a brand. Their leadership, commitment and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, EMC Tagged With: EMC, EMC Elect

Storage Basics – Part IX: Alternate IOPS Formula

January 2, 2013 By Josh Townsend 12 Comments

It's been a long time since I published an article in my Storage Basics series - the series has been some of the top content on my site to date. I sat for a beta version of the VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Desktop Design (VCAP-DTD) test today and was reminded by the test of a post I had in waiting about an alternate way to calculate IOPS (hint hint - memorize these formulas). I have several more articles sitting in draft form, but a new job, crazy kids, home improvement projects, and a wife with chronic cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leaks (it sounds bad - and it is - but look on … [Read more...]