New Celerra vSphere Techbook!!!

At EMC, each platforms has a single master reference book for use with vSphere.

The engineering teams have gone to the mat in the latest versions to be complete, authoritative and exhaustive.

This last week, the EMC Celerra team updated their doc, and I would highly recommend it.   The vSpecialist crew really worked them over about past revs not being explicit enough about specific networking configuration elements, NFS specifics, and critical timeout value determinations.   Heck, we even worked collaboratively with NetApp and others to align on alignment (so our position was more in sync – obviously customers move form one platform to another, but don’t want to change VM alignment).

You can download it by clicking on the link below.

In this most recent round, the platform teams coordinated tightly on content (share best practices as much as possible).   The next revision of the docs merge EMC’s midrange documentation to further simplify.   Across EMC, we’re working hard to simplify wherever possible, and build best-of-breed purpose built solutions where it can’t get done right in one doc/one platform.

Comments

[Tom Miller]

Any update when the SRA will work with the Celerra VSA? I have the latest version of the Celerra's replicating but the SRA 4.017 can not run a test plan with vSphere 4.01 update1 and SRM 4.01. Open thread in the VMware communities also about this issue.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1468803#1468803

Thanks for the hard work on the Celerra VSA - pretty awesome.

[Itzik Reich]

Hi Tom,
the latest Clerra SRA is 4.0.19 and it is compatible with the 5.6.48 DART and while your'e at it, check out the SRM-Celerra failback plugin, it's great!

[Tom Miller]

Just checked VMware's downloads for the Celerra SRA and it's still

EMC Celerra Storage Replication Adapter
Version 4.0.17 |Released 01/29/2010

I'd really love to get this working, Celerra VSA 5.6.48.701, vCenter 4.01 update1, vSphere 4.01 update1, SRM 4.01. My goal is to use this for customer demos.

[Chad Sakac]

@Itzik @Tom - the latest public SRA is indeed 4.0.17. Itzik is an emcer, and has acceess to the pre-release of 4.0.19.

I NEVER recommend using a pre-release SRA. Use the one at www.vmware.com.

Good news - the 4.0.19 was submitted some time ago to VMware, and should be live on their site this next week.

Tom - setup the Celerra VSAs with confidence, get them replicating. The updated SRA will be out very shortly.

[r0b]

*Topic Change* *Thread Derail*

NetApp has some disk alignment tools for ESX/vSphere (mbrscan/mbrtool).

Does EMC have similiar alignment tools? Or just use the regular alignment within a given OS (diskpar, etc?)