Comments on: Enterprise Computing: The New USP – A Dreary Storage Cluster?

By: A Taste Of HAM (Apologies To The Doctor) – Gestalt IT

A Taste Of HAM (Apologies To The Doctor) – Gestalt IT — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:36:15 +0000

[...] I’d like to know ’bout HDS HAM/What is it, oh HDS [...]

By: HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement Can’t Be All – Gestalt IT

HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement Can’t Be All – Gestalt IT — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:36:06 +0000

[...] was coming today. They even made it fun, with a (literally) cryptic blog entry to make sure we were all watching. But the announcement of High Availability Manager, a software product to manage existing HDS USP-V [...]

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:36:22 +0000

Soikki,

Thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look.

Chris

By: soikki

soikki — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:51:09 +0000

Have you not noticed that V-Max’s “tiering” seems to be flawed: you cannot migrate data even between “normal” volumes and dp-volumes in the same array… Not to even talk about migrating data between different arrays. Also, the box is locked for a while when you want to migrate data (in several occasions). Read emc’s whitepaper “Best practices for nondisruptive tiering via emc symmetrix virtual lun” and tell me if the above is true or not.

Isn’t this a bigger problem with tiering, than the fact that in v-max you can currently have bigger ssd’s? And with current FAST, I don’t see anything dynamic about it.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:33:03 +0000

I think there will be two versions – FAST for LUNs – which will be akin to Optimiser of today and similar to what Tiered Storage Manager can offer. Next year (2010 some time) EMC will bring FAST for blocks – so individual blocks of a LUN can be moved between tiers. That’s the real killer app…

Chris

By: Regrades Our Classy Treat « Work In Progress

Regrades Our Classy Treat « Work In Progress — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:00:40 +0000

[...] Evans claims (http://thestoragearchitect.com/2009/05/21/enterprise-computing-the-new-usp-scabetera-dreary-storage-…) that “Regrades Our Classy Treat” is an anagram of “A Dreary Storage Cluster”. This is [...]

By: HDS’s anagrammatic announcement - Storage Soup

HDS’s anagrammatic announcement - Storage Soup — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:07:37 +0000

[...] storage consultant Chris M. Evans solved the puzzle on his blog with STORAGE ARRAYS CLUSTERED or CLUSTERED STORAGE [...]

By: Bert Ho

Bert Ho — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:56:41 +0000

Does V-max FAST work similarly as USP-V’s Tiered Storage Manager?

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:22:03 +0000

USP-V Max it is!

Chris

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:52:09 +0000

How about USP V-max

Based on the DLB thing at http://bit.ly/189Uzc (I assume Dynamic Load Balance), I’d always thought it would be USP V DLB. Let hope thats just the factory name though.