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About 1 year ago
The Unity 400 is a rather old, a much less powerfull solution and at its best holds ssd flashdrives if at all. Currently you have the Unity 8xx model, which has more CPU punch and therefore maxes out less fast on CPU utilisation. What this means is that you can add more…
Over 2 years ago
When it comes to changing to other storage fabrics (from SCSI to NVMe) or reaching out to other transport layers (ethernet, infiniband or FC), all units once initialised only operate with the modules installed at initialisation time.  So you better define which type of…
Almost 3 years ago
Over 3 years ago
NAS has no upfront investments, you can use standard NICs in your servers, segment NAS traffic etc... and you  might want to reuse your current switch infra. Still it is recommended to use a separate from LAN infra and use a larger MTU size (for jumbo frames). In the past…
Over 3 years ago
The CLI is not object oriented like Powershell is. You can't make host or volumegroups to assign volumes in a consistent manner (same LUN ID) , nor add a host to inherit a volumegroup. I can't think of any other solution that doesn't have that feature. If you try the CLI…
Over 3 years ago
We use it as the factory default FC/Block based Full Flash Storage as Primary Data for our vSphere workloads. Important difference between Unity X00/X50f & X80f (or XT). The original systems (x50f) were more suited for workloads up to 120TB and the XT (x80f) for workloads…