Unity Vsa License
May 24, 2016 Unity VSA Deployment EMC released the new mid-range storage array “Unity” at EMC World this year. There are 3 different options: Unity All Flash, Unity Hybrid Flash and UnityVSA. The Unity VSA platform can scale up to 50TB and can be fully unified. The UnityVSA Community edition allows up to 4TB of capacity for free!
- Check the license pack for your Unity array covers VVOLs, this will be listed in the feature table on the licensing email from EMC. If you are unsure check with your account manager. The Unity 300 and 400 arrays support up to 9000 VVOLs. The Unity 500 supports 13500 VVOLs and the Unity 600 supports 30,000 VVOLs.
- One of the VSA’s available for home lab use is the EMC UnityVSA that offers a “community” edition that is fully featured with only size limitations on the storage size that can be configured. This emulates the mid range Unity appliance that is offered in either the all-flash or hybrid version.
- Re: Unity VSA Community ( free ) license VMware generates the UUID for the SMBIOS on the PhysicalHosts UUID and the relative VM Path. This happens on first power on.
- EMC Unity VSA – accessible for all for free with support for Veeam Backup. 2016/09/14 by Piotr Pisz 5 Comments. The fussion of Dell and EMC became a reality. The consequence of this is the exchange of entire product lines, disappears VNX brand and debut Unity (here you can read more about this). First of all, Unity VSA is a product in.
| Subsidiary | |
| Traded as | NYSE: EMC (1986–2016)[1] |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer storage |
| Founded | 1979; 40 years ago |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Worldwide | |
Key people | Jeff Clarke (President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell EMC) |
| Products | See EMC products |
| Parent | Dell Technologies |
| Website | www.dellemc.com/en-us/storage/unity.htm |
Dell EMC Unity is one of Dell EMC’s mid-range storage array product lines. It was designed from the ground up as the next generation midrange unified storage array after the EMC VNX and VNXe series, which evolved out of the EMC Clariion SAN disk array.
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History[edit]
Clariion’s predecessor, HADA (High Availability Disk Array) was developed in 1991 by Data General Corporation, one of the first minicomputer companies. HADA was designed to significantly improve the performance of commodity hard disk drives by running large numbers of them in parallel. It was one of the first products on the market with a cached RAID system, and featured hot-swapping and several other innovations.[2][3]
HADA was initially sold exclusively as an array with the company's Aviion line of computer systems as the HADA (High Availability Disk Array) and later the HADA II [6] before being made available for broader open systems attachment and renamed CLARiiON in 1994.[4]Fibre Channel support was added in 1997.
As CLARiiON sales grew, Data General created a separate CLARiiON division[5] and began selling the product both direct to Aviion and Data General MV customers, but also as an OEM offering to its systems competitors, including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics.[6] CLARiiON was considered the primary value generator in EMC Corporation’s decision to purchase Data General in 1999.[7]
Development of the CLARiiON product line continued under EMC. The company introduced IP-based storage access in 2000.[8] In 2001, Dell and EMC entered into a partnership, and the CLARiiON line began being resold by Dell.[9] In 2002, the CX200, CX400 and CX600 entry-level lines were introduced, the result of the year-long collaboration between the two companies.[10] In 2003, CLARiiON became the industry's first NEBS-certified storage system.[11]
Subsequent processor and bandwidth upgrades led to a new CX lineup (CX300, CX500, CX700) and a low-end, SATA-based CLARiiON array, the AX100 (now updated to AX150).
In May 2006, EMC introduced the third generation of CLARiiON, named CX3 UltraScale. The lineup, consisting of the CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80, was the industry's only storage platform to leverage end-to-end 4 Gbit/s (4 billion bits per second) Fibre Channel and PCI-Express technologies.[12] Later in 2007, the line was expanded to include a new entry-level storage system, the CX3-10.
Development continued until 2011, when EMC introduced the new VNX series of unified storage disk arrays intended to combine and replace both CLARiiON and Celerra products. The new suite of VNX SAN/NAS arrays included three product lines: an entry-level VNXe, the VNX5000 series and the VNX7000 series. The new VNX line was marketed as the only storage system offering automated file and block sub-LUN tiering using its FAST technology.[13]
In early 2012, with development continuing on the VNX lines, both CLARiiON and Celerra were discontinued. Development efforts in 2012 and 2013 included a strong focus on supporting data warehousing applications and multicore architectures, culminating in MCx, billed by some as the second generation of VNX. The massive hyperthreading enabled by multicore architectural support led to significant improvements in caching, file IOPS and database transaction rates.[14] In 2014, MCx support was added to the VNXe line.[15]
Unity Vsa Licence
Dell EMC Unity was introduced in 2016. The new platform virtualized the “data mover” NAS functionality originally developed for the Celerra product line and moved it into software, simplifying hardware setup and enabling file system upgrades.[16] The transition from VNX to Unity was described by one Dell EMC insider as one of replacing an entire car part-by-part in the middle of a race, without pit stops. The improvements outlined in Chad Sacak’s blog post included a 3x performance boost, reduction from a 7U to a 2U form factor, almost 50% power consumption reduction and significantly faster rack installation.[17]
Dell EMC Unity’s new transactional file system supported traditional NAS use cases while better supporting transactional file applications. It included Fibre Channel, FCoE, NFS, SMB 3.0 (CIFS), and iSCSI protocols. All flash and hybrid Dell EMC Unity models were introduced in 2016, as were a new HTML5 user interface and, later that year, inline compression with inline dedupe scheduled for later in 2017.[18]
In May 2017, Dell EMC Unity was updated to support many new features and capabilities including Dynamic Pools. This is a new Pool type introduced in Dell Unity OE version 4.2.x allowing users to flexibly add 1 or more drives at a time. This helps reduce drive rebuild times and flash wear when compared to the use of Traditional Pools. A Dynamic Pool is created by default when creating a Pool in Unisphere with Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.2.x and later. Dynamic Pools are only supported on Dell EMC Unity All Flash Systems. Additionally with the May release, support for a 256TB file system and compression for file, block archiving to the cloud, thin clones with snapshots and AppSync integration for integrated Copy Data Management (iCDM), and. EMC Investor Relations. EMC Corporation. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
Unity Vsa License Application
Unity Vsa Trial License
There have been a number of queries recently in relation to licensing of the VSA with the 5.1 release. The VSA has a number of different licensing models depending on how it was obtained. In many cases, if you check your vSphere licenses via the vCenter License Administration view, you might observe that the VSA asset is reported as not licensed, in evaluation or expired.
So where do you check if you have a valid license for the VSA?As per KB article 2040217, the fact that the license is not reported in the ‘Manage vSphere Licenses’ in vCenter is a known issue and is cosmetic. This can be safely ignored if a valid license entitling the user to use the vSphere Storage Appliance is applied.
To verify the license that VSA is actually using, click on the ‘about‘ dialog in VSA manager. This is located in the lower right hand corner of the VSA Manager view, and is a link detailing the VSA version (vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.1.0 as shown below). Click on it, and it will bring up details of the VSA, including the licensing details, shown here:
As you can see, this VSA is licensed for Essentials Plus. Therefore, you should base your VSA licensing on what the VSA Manager tells you and not what vCenter tells you.
Unity Vsa Demo License
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