PowerMax SR – SRDF with 32Gb FC and FC-NVMe

Today Dell EMC announced the latest PowerMax Service Release (SR). Normally we have a single SR release in Q3, but this year we have two. The reason is that in our first release, which you can read about here and introduced NVMe over fabrics (FC-NVMe), we were unable to include SRDF for the 32Gb IO...

Tech Preview of SRM with vVols on PowerMax

Disclaimer: This post concerns pre-GA releases from both VMware and Dell EMC. This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware or Dell EMC to deliver these features in any generally available product. Today at VMworld Europe, VMware and Dell EMC introduced a preview of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with VMware Virtual Volumes...

SRDF SRA TechBook 9.1

I published the latest SRDF SRA TechBook version 9.1 today. You can get it here. A reminder that this TechBook only covers SRA 9.x. Prior SRA versions are in the original TB which is located in the documentation library. Besides the changes for 9.1, I added some sections which I have covered in this blog...

Dell EMC Enterprise Storage Analytics 5.0

A new release of Dell EMC ESA is now available for download. Software and documentation can be found here. This release supports the newest platforms (Dell EMC and VMware) and fixes a couple bugs, one of which impacts the PowerMax. Here is the excerpt from the Release Notes: The new support for Dell EMC is...