VPLEX

VPLEX Metro with Powerpath/VE

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This post is describing the challenges with native VMware multipathing and VPLEX metro. This post is mostly generic and true for other metro storage products and native host multipathing software. Host Access Methods: VPLEX offers two Host Access Methods enabled by the AccessAnywhere Feature (active-active LUN ownership model between directors […]

VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 GUI improvements

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VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 introduces some great improvements to the GUI.
I think the most awaited feature is the ability to create a distributed device directly from a claimed storage volume (backend LUN)

These five new features are now available with GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1:

  • Ability to view a map of distributed devices
  • Ability to create a distributed device from the storage volume view
  • A means to save distributed device mappings to a file
  • Ability to sort virtual volumes by consistency group
  • Ability to automatically add the ports of a selected initiator during storage view creation

The following video is demonstrating the GUI improvements:

Upgrading VPLEX GeoSynchrony

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This video demonstrates an upgrade of a VPLEX Metro Installation from GeoSynchrony 5.2 to 5.2 SP1. The VPLEX installation consists of one engine (two directors) and three backend storages (VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON) in each site.
VPLEX is used by a VMware vSphere 5.5 Metro Storage Cluster demo installation. The ESXi hosts (one in each site) are using Powerpath/VE to keep the IO local and still do load balancing.