The EMC VNX and VMware vSphere Techbook (this the reference text for any customers/partners/EMCers who use EMC VNX arrays with vSphere – which translates to a LOT of people) has been updated! It is downloadable – so click the link below. BTW, this is doc h8229 if you ever want to search by doc number. Thank YOU, Jeff Purcell (the primary author)!
For those of you who want it in hardcopy, you can purchase it from the Vervante EMC Techbook store here. It makes for a great nerd coffee table book :-)
(personally, I wouldn’t buy the hardcopy – we’re already working on the next rev – to capture the various things that are targeted for future vSphere revs – like autorestore as part of the SATP when the RR PSP is used – yeah!)
Late last year (Nov 21st –my birthday!) , the EMC Symmetrix techbook for vSphere also was updated – mandatory for any folks using EMC VMAX/VMAXe arrays with vSphere (also many, many folks) – BTW, this is doc h2529 if you ever want to search by doc number. Thank YOU, Cody Hosterman and Drew Tonneson (the primary authors)! Click on the below to download!
You can expect an updated Techbook soon for customers using SRM 5 with the latest SRDF SRA (which is one of the more sophisticated, but also more complex SRM/replication implementations). We’re also working on an Isilon Techbook – targeted to be coincident with the next major ONE FS release which will open up Isilon for many more VMware-centric use cases. The EMC VNXe is too simple to warrant a techbook :-)
Feedback is ALWAYS welcome. I’m pushing for these books to be published in ebook formats, as well as posted as native HTML (will help with the always handy google query way of finding answers), but any and all other suggestions welcome!
Just seconding the idea of having the book available for eReaders. . .I am a recent Kindle convert, and it would be great to have this on my device!
Posted by: Jeff Poling | January 31, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Chad,
Will we see an updated Celerra VMware guide, or does the VNX guide stand in its place?
Posted by: Michael Wisenbaker | January 31, 2012 at 03:31 PM
Hi Chad,
With this document and the many other EMC best practice documents it would be really useful to include a detailed list of changes since the previous version.
As there are likely to be several versions per year this way once you have read one version you only need to keep up to date with the changes.
Best regards
Mark
P.S.
Do you know when the VPLEX 5/vSphere 5 best practice document is scheduled to be published?
Posted by: Mark Burgess | February 01, 2012 at 04:21 AM
Pages 210-213 indicate that RecoverPoint still doesn't play nice with VAAI, and Scott Lowe was wrong last year when he said it would work properly with newer FLARE code versions. (See here: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2011/01/20/additional-recoverpoint-vaai-update/ )
Can anybody confirm/clarify?
Posted by: Pezjunkie42 | February 01, 2012 at 11:22 AM