Yesterday’s announcements on vSphere 4.1 was amazing in a number of respects. Firstly the blogging community were falling over themselves to make announcements on the new release. I expect there was a well organised PR & marketing push behind the scenes to get so many people talking about the technology from midnight onwards. Secondly, there [...]
I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max. Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following:
Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space Reclamation reduces capacity requirements and total cost of [...]
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy DMX-3 [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about automated storage tiering (not least from myself) and there’s one piece of the puzzle I’m not completely sure has been explored in depth. Many of the posts refer to physically moving data between tiers of internal (or external) storage. In legacy environments where LUNs are comprised of [...]
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
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So, the announcements have started; EMC have unveiled their next-generation version of the Symmetrix high-end storage array family and it is called the V-Max. So I guess previous guesses about DMX-5 or DMX-V weren’t far off!
Naturally, the EMC PR machine is in full flow; blog posts are already up from the usual suspects:
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