CLOSED: Summer Gift Part 2 – 10 VNXe arrays free to play with for volunteers!

[UPDATED 6/11/2014 @ 9:43 – all, overwhelming interest (I guess we should do this more!) – thank you!   I’ll be closing submissions now, and frankly sorting through the requests.  I got some from EMC and VMware folks – FYI, I love that, and will be trying to see what I can do – but am prioritizing customers and partners.   I will get back to everyone who emailed their request in, thank you!]

 

Ok – here’s awesome surprise #2 (and there is a 3rd coming).  I have ten, count ‘em, 10 (!) shiny new VNXe 3200s for people to play with!

Well – actually I have 8 :-) Christian Mohn triggered this with his request, so I’m sending him one.   Also, Henri Hamalainen whose seminal work on the first generation VNXe helped us make the first generation better, and the new 2nd generation even more awesome.   You can read Henri’s seminal VNXe blog posts here.

If you want to know more about the new VNXe 3200, you can find it here: http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm

Here’s the scoop:

• You will have the array for 8 months.  It MUST be shipped back – so don’t request unless you are ok with that model.  If you don’t ship it back, you will get charged for it – and while the VNXe is incredible value, I don’t want anyone getting stuck with the tab.   We’ll cover all the shipping costs.
• We want your feedback, good/bad/ugly – and we want it publicly, openly and.   Blog.  Tweet.  Share.  We think it’s an awesome platform – perhaps the best in that band, but what do YOU think?  What could we do better?  SHARE!   Don’t sign up unless you can put it through it’s paces and share.
• Here’s what you will get:
  • VNXe 3200 - 2U Form Factor/12 Drive DPE
    • 3.5” Drives
    • 6 x 600GB 15K Pack
    • 3 X 100GB eMLC Flash Drives (for FAST auto-tiering)
    • 2 X 100GB eMLC Flash Drives (for FAST Cache)
    • 3.9TB Raw Capacity
  • Included OE Functionality (includes VNXe Operating Environment with all the new MCx goodness and FAST behaviors)
    • Unisphere Management Suite
      • Unisphere Management
      • Unisphere Central
    • Monitoring and Reporting (yup – VNXe gets all the MnR goodies!)
    • Unified Snapshots (File and Block)
    • File deduplication and compression
    • Thin provisioning
    • Protocols (ISCSI, CIFS/SMB, NFS)
  • Virtualization/Mgmt:
    • VAAI
    • VASA
    • SMI-S

So – interested?   Can you commit to shipping back, testing, and sharing?   If so, please email me (firstname dot lastname at emc dot com), and I’ll get you sorted out!

Comments

[Curtis Miller]

I'd LOVE one, and will be more than happy to test, comment, and ship back.
But I'm not 100% if posting this comment is what you are looking for.

[Kevin Steil]

Whats your first and last name? I am definitely in...

[Curtis Miller]

I'd appreciate the chance to chance to play with one of those VNXe's.

[Mohamed Azzam]

VNXe is very competitive product as it provides an EMC product with a good price.
The drawback of the VNXe that it does not supprot the Native FC.
So if VNXe2 solves this issue, VNXe2 is our hero :)

[Hesham Derbala]

Dear
Iam Interested in this test and i commit to shipping it back after testing and also share the information as requested

[Alexandru Covaliov]

We are in the merket right now for a storage appliance like this one. We have a Promise M610i which is very old and performance is poor to afford our requirements. I would appreciate a chance to try this device in action before make a decision to go with it in production.