eNAS on VMAX3 and VAAI integration with NFS

Late last year in the second release of the HYPERMAX OS for VMAX3, EMC delivered new functionality for file-based storage called Embedded NAS or eNAS.  eNAS runs as a guestos (GOS) on the VMAX3 and therefore is fully integrated. What it does is enable virtual instances of VNX Software Data Movers and Control Stations to...

VMAX3 and RP for VMs to my rescue

Although RP for VMs (RP4VM) has been out for a while now, and there are plenty of other blogs and documentation, I thought I'd just recount one scenario I ran into where it really saved me.  Now make no mistake I am a VMAX guy and my replication/DR solution of choice is SRDF 🙂  But...

RecoverPoint SRA & VMware SRM 5.8 with VSI RP Point-in-Time

Last week one of my colleagues asked me if I could put together a demo recording using the RecoverPoint SRA with VMware SRM 5.8 and VSI.  While I have produced videos for RP SRA and VMware SRM (https://drewtonnesen.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/point-in-time-test-recovery-with-vsi-recoverpoint-management-and-vmware-srm/), they were based on the VMware thick client.  As I have noted in a number of posts,...