EMC World at your fingertips in vLab

EMC vLab is an at scale online lab environment – and powers a pick part how we train, enable our field, our services teams, but also our partners and customers.   It’s insane what’s behind this – but it’s a great tool.   FYI – the vLab Flex (“build your own labs”) capability is ramping up – and takes this to a whole new level.

HEASDS UP – vLAB is going to be going thru a big update the week of May 25th for a big upgrade, so just a heads up that week, availability will not be predictable.

vLab also powers the hands-on labs at EMC World.   As part of that – it means that after EMC World – all that stuff moves into vLab’s catalog!

The team that runs this (Engineering Operations, Services & Solutions aka EOS2), is pleased to announce the availability of new vLabs from EMC World 2016.

Seen for the first time at the vLab Experience, many of these labs were available in Guided vLab as well as Self-Service Hands-on-Lab format at EMC World and enabled customers and partners to experience the power and value of EMC’s latest exciting product and solution releases first-hand.  We’re sure your customers will want to get hands-on as well, so check out these labs today.  Find more information on each lab on our ECN Community by clicking the links below.

Core Technologies Division (CTD)

• Blazing Backup to the Cloud with NetWorker and CloudBoost - In this lab, we step through how EMC NetWorker incorporates CloudBoost support for long term retention to cloud including how DP Search brings intelligent search to data recovery!
• Modern Copy Data Management with VMAX3 and Data Domain - This lab will introduce the user to EMC's revolutionary new modern copy data management solution, Enterprise Copy Data Management, or eCDM. This Hands-On Lab provides an overview on copy data management to meet compliance objectives for tenants' protection plans leveraging their assets on both primary and protection storage.
• Software-defined data protection with DD VE and Avamar - This lab highlights the ease of deployment, flexibility, and simple management of the Data Domain Virtual Edition.  In this Lab, we highlight DDVE's usage by leveraging its tight integration with Avamar for fast VMware backup and restore.
• VNX2 Storage Administration and VMware vSphere Integration - In this lab, you will explore a VNX2 system and experience Unisphere’s simplicity and intuitiveness. You will provision both block and file storage resources. You’ll also use VMware API’s and the VSI plugin to explore VNX2’s deep integration with vSphere.
• Unity - VMware vSphere Integration and Awareness - This lab will explore the new EMC Unity platform and its deep VMware integration including VAAI, VASA, VVol's, and it's built-in VM-aware capabilities. Who knew managing virtual server storage could be this simple?
• Unity - Simplified Storage Management and Administration * Most Popular vLab at show! * - See how simple storage can be!  Our new EMC Unity system with a radically simple interface and Proactive Assist capabilities will set the new standard for simplicity in the midrange.  Come take a look at the future of storage.
• Unity -  Configuring Snapshots and Replication - What good is storage if it's not protected?  Test drive the powerful built-in snapshots and replication technology within the new EMC Unity storage system with built-in Unified Snapshots and Replication.

Emerging Technologies Division (ETD)

• Deployment and Management of ScaleIO 2.0 - Features and functionality are explored with version 2.0 of ScaleIO. See how easy it is to deploy and use ScaleIO via GUI, CLI and more. Learn the architecture and terminology that will allow you to become a ScaleIO expert.
• Isilon InsightIQ 4.0 Demo and Deep-Dive of Common Use Cases - Explore available Data Insights of the Isilon environment (performance, reports, and file system) using InsightIQ 4.0.
• Isilon OneFS CloudPools - Configuration and Tiering to ECS - This lab provides hands-on experience in setting up Cloudpools with ECS as a cloud archive target. It covers methods of archiving data and accessing the archived data. It also dives into the failover capabilities of CloudPools using two Isilon Clusters.
• ViPR Controller 2.4 - Automating Delivery of Storage Services - You will learn how to ingest existing brownfield environments into ViPR Controller in order to manage them moving forward. You’ll provision block storage with SRDF and RecoverPoint protection and migrate block storage. You will use API and REST interfaces.
• Docker, Mesos, and ScaleIO for your Persistent Applications - Building a container strategy and choosing the right platform for your applications is a challenge in a diverse open source world. Learn how ScaleIO and Mesos/Marathon can be complimentary to expand the benefits that containers bring to your infrastructure.
• Experience Smart Multipurpose Shared Global Storage with ECS - ECS 2.2 vLab offers the opportunity to perform new tenant configuration, object data ingest using S3 protocol, Metadata search using SPARK SQL and S3 client applications, as well as NFS access to objects  from a windows environment.

Converged Platform Division (CPD)

• VxRack Manager UI orientation: Explore the Features, Functions, and User Interface of a Simulated VxRack to gain a functional understanding of the VxRack Manager UI.
• Experience VxRail: The VxRail Appliance is a hyper-converged appliance exclusively from EMC/VCE and VMware. This lab demonstrates how simple and fast is to deploy a fully virtualized SDDC with VxRail, and the benefits that can be extracted from VxRail Manager 
• Enterprise Hybrid Cloud v3.5 for Business and IT Agility - Built from an integrated solution stack consisting of: VMware vRealize Suite; VMware vSphere 6; VMware NSX; EMC storage; EMC Avamar 7.1; EMC ViPR 2.4; over 40K hours’ worth of EMC-engineered integrated automation; and Puppet Enterprise.
• Virtustream xStream with App Director Service Module for SAP - In this lab you will learn how a cloud service provider can deliver IT as a Service to a customer in a hybrid cloud deployment model.
• Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) v1.0 Engineered Solution - The Lab walks through a Native Hybrid Cloud engineered solution which provides developers, operators  and business managers with a Cloud Native platform built on an elastic IaaS for deployment and management of cloud native applications, including performance and capacity management, as well as financial insight.

Enterprise Content Division (ECD)

• Retire legacy apps and reduce data silos with InfoArchive - Step through two common business challenges being solved using InfoArchive while seeing how InfoArchive transforms IT.

So…Accessing the Demo Systems

For those of you with existing vLab accounts, these demos will be available for reservation via your Library. If you do not have a vLab account please register at https://portal.demoemc.com. If you are not an EMC Presales System Engineer and don’t have access to one and would like to take this lab for personal learning, please contact vLab Support ([email protected]) for assistance.

Visit our ECN community, vLab Interact, to view all available labs.

HAVE FUN!