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New UBER Model : UBER VNX (NFS) v1

April 8, 2011 By 68 Comments

I am crazy heads down on a massive EMC World 2011 project right now. One bad side effect is I have not had time to keep up with the stuff I normally do on the side for EMC. This includes updates to the UBER VSAs (virtual storage appliances). I did get one *internal* one done recently but nothing for my community.

Yet, almost a month ago, one of the teams behind the EMC VNX released a VSA for it. I helped do some testing and built an UBER version but did not have time to finish testing and bug fixing. The good news is I got my head enough above water on my main projects to dedicate some time today to squash the last big bug and finish this VSA.

So I present for your free (unsupported) use: the EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1.image

Details:

  • First off, NFS/CIFS only. Long story on this but this VSA only has this enabled. The engineering teams have a multiprotocol(and much more) version but it is not quite ready for public yet (though it is coming).
  • New VNX Unisphere. Looks even better. Cool new stuff and even slicker arrangement.
  • One datamover only. Think of this version 1 as the beginning of a new series. I have not had the time to make the multi-DM version yet.
  • Same greatness as before (Network auto add, storage auto add, quick wizard setup).

And some caveats:

I tested everything I could but this is going to be much more like the original Celerra UBER VSA I released. As I get more time with it and get feedback I will improve stuff.

Here are the download links for the OVA, ZIP and MD5 hashes. Also there are torrent links for those that prefer that method.

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – OVA (HTTP)

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – OVA MD5 (FTP)

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – ZIP (HTTP)

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – ZIP MD5 (FTP)

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – OVA (Torrent)

EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – ZIP (Torrent)

As always please comment if you have questions or hit the Everything VMware at EMC community page to drop questions for me or my EMC brothers and sisters.

And I will see all of you at the EMC World labs Winking smile

.nick

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  • Phil

    Fantastic work Nick – Thanks !

  • http://twitter.com/andriven Andrew Miller

    Bless you…thanks much.

  • http://twitter.com/Arjantim Arjan Timmerman

    My God, and that being home alone (with kids and a pup). You must be some kind of UBER man ;-)

    Thanks for another great lab tool, which I’ll use without doubt :-D

  • http://twitter.com/andriven Andrew Miller

    Is the torrent fully seeded? I’m about 1 GB into it but showing that the whole thing isn’t available yet…

  • andy

    What needs to be done to get good NFS performance from the UBER VNX using a vSphere 4.0 host? On the local VNX filesystem I can “DD if=/dev/zero of=test” for approx ~65MBytes/sec. Creating an eagerzeroedthick VMDK on NFS, ~4MB/s :(
    I am using end-to-end Jumbo Frames, have set the NFS mount to uncached,noscan

    What am I missing?

    a

    • Anonymous
      • andy

        Thanks for the link Lynxbat. That was one of the first items I looked for when I migrated from the Uber Celerra 3.2 to the VNX VSA. Looks like they have included that by default which is a good thing.

        Any other ideas?

        a

      • andy

        Ok, I learned something today. After concluding that Jumbo Frames was NOT fully enabled, I was hitting 600,000+ network packets per second while deploying a template, I realized that enabling it in the GUI was not working as expected.
        This was confirmed using vmkping $IP -s 9000 from an ESX host and it failed with 100% packet loss.
        Here is what I needed to do to set an MTU of 9000 bytes on the VNX VSA:
        As root
        # ifconfig eth1 mtu 9000
        As nasadmin
        # server_ifconfig server_2 $INTERFACE_NAME mtu=9000
        Now vmkping $IP -s 9000 worked.

        This dropped my PPS to <200,000 while deploying a template. I can run an IOMeter sequential read with large 1M access specification and get ~55MB/s with a ~17MS response time.
        4K 100% random write is still low (~30 IOPS) but I can live with that.

        I also recommend using the uncached,noscan mount options I mentioned above, here how:
        As nasadmin
        # server_mount server_2 -option perm,rw,uncached,noscan $EXPORT $MOUNT
        eg.
        # server_mount server_2 -option uncached,noscan NFS_01 /NFS_01

  • Sony

    It says ” Your CPU does not support long mode. use a 32 bit distribution” in VMWARE 7.1 workstation

    • Anonymous

      You need a 64 bit CPU 

    • http://www.emc.com Ntorophilly

      Your CPU does not support long mode.  Use a 32bit distritution.  I get the same message when booting on a ESX 4.1i System.  Any resolution suggestions?

  • Ramlan

    I tried downloading everyone of them (ZIP & OVA). All the time, I get file corrupted. Can anybody share me a working copy of OVA here. Appreciate your help.

    • Anonymous

      Did you try using the torrent? 

      • ch ganga

        torrent also not working

  • T.C. Ferguson

    Great work!

    What is the default username and password?

    • Anonymous

      nasadmin/nasadmin 

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  • G p l

    Links are down :(

    • Anonymous

      Just tested and all links are working. If you are an EMC employee you need to download off EMC net 

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  • raulo.cast

     does it work on Vmwre fusion ?

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  • ChocolateBuddha

    Hello Geek world.  I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to Celerra, but I’m coming up to speed as quickly as possible.  Trying to install this bad boy on OpenSuSe 11.4 using Workstation 7.1.4 64bit.  I’m just wondering, if I’m going to run this up in Linux will I have to follow any different instructions or consider any special settings or is it just suck it and see?

  • Jkasal14

    Is it possible to unattach a vmdk from the VSA 3.2 and present it to this new version (Or any version for that matter) and retain data? I guess the question I have is, how does one perform an “Update” when a newer version is released?

    Thanks, JKasal

  • Koha1290

    I successfully installed in VM.
    I could logged in CLI. However, the GUI doesn’t seem to be working.
    Nothing shows as the attached picture.
    Is there something wrong about it?

    • Anonymous

      Please see the post on the blue screen issue fix.

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  • Dhopkins

    Has anyone tried to perform a mock File System Migration via CDMS with the VNX simulator?

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  • JimmyM

    The ftp site is down. Can you please fix it.

    Thx

    • Anonymous

      Site is down. The torrent links about are the alternate. 

  • Pete Sneathen

    Can you please fix the FTP site.   Links are not working.  Thanks in advance.

  • Pete Sneathen

    lynxbat, I’m having difficulty finding a torrent file for this and the torrents above are not working.  Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

  • Jitesh_khatri

    torrent download works and imported ova into vsphere

  • Ram

    How to add more storage to the original 40GB hard disk?  The appliance has one hard disk of 40GB (vmdk).  I want to add more storage.  How????  Tks

    • Jitesh_khatri

      i think you just need to shut down the vsa and then add storage to the vm
      power it on and uber should auto detect new drives

      • Ram

        The 40GB hard disk is (vmdk – ide). I shut down and created additional hard disk (8GB – ide) – powered on – Don’t see the new hard disk.  Looked at storage pool – Just see cla_r5_economy and cla_r5_performance.  Can’t figure out how to increase the storage.  Hence looking for a way to add additional storage.

    • Jitesh_khatri

      i think you just need to shut down the vsa and then add storage to the vm
      power it on and uber should auto detect new drives

  • Ram

    I can’t find EMC VSI plugin for vCenter.  I finished installing vnx vsa – configured NFS.  I believe with vsi plugin there are option for compression and other features that, I can make use inside vcenter.  I visited powerlink to download the plugin.  Can’t find the plugin (FREE) one.  

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  • Michael Megre

    hi, what is the user & password for the ftp?

  • Tmiller

    I’ve used UBER 3.2 based on Celerra to perform SRM 4.1 testing, works great.  However, for SRM 5 there is no SRA for UBER 3.2 Celerra.  Does anyone know if the VNX will work with SRM 5 for home lab testing of SRM?

  • Jluc

    Hello,
    it works i installed that, but what is username and password to connect ?
    Thanks in advance

    • Tmiller

      nasadmin nasadmin

  • Cpteague

    Does this support workstation 8 because I’m having a problem of added disk being detected. Which worked fine in workstation 7.

    Thanks

    • Tmiller

      from within the VNX web mgmt interface tell it to scan for additional storage under storage options.  I’m not in front of mine right now but I had to do the same thing when adding storage on ESX5 VM’s running the VNX appliance.

      • Cpteague

        Thanks for your reply Tmiller, I added to 100gb flat files and notice that the system didn’t detect them until I click enter on the console screen where it says browse to https://x.x.x.x. After that it said adding to the clarion backend, so I logged into the webclient system-storage then rescan storage systems and it increased by 80gb so im still missing the 120gb. Both drives are detected when I log into console and run fdisk -l.

        Thoughts?

      • Tmiller

        There are two storage pools.  when adding space it allocates spaces partially to both pools.  Not sure how that “pixie dusts” is working though.

      • Cpteague

        It seems I have to create smaller drives. It seem to identify and add better when I used 50GB drives. Thanks for your help!

  • Andy King

    I have had a issue with the VSA, I was doing a clone on vSphere on a guest on a NFS partition presented to the ESXi 4.1 host from the VNX VSA. The clone froze and my NFS mounts from the VNX VSA dissapeard from the ESXi host. I rebooted my VSA Guest, but now it wont boot and complains in the VMWARE log file

    [msg.Backdoor.OsNotFound] No operating system was found. 

    The two VMDK’s for the VSA guest are still available as I created the VSA guest on a datastore that was from a Clariion Storage system and I can browse this datastore fine, my only though is that he VMDK fiel for the boot volume is corrupt of some sort???

  • Chris

    This rocks, I was able to get a VNX emulator working in no time. Thanks

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  • VivaVirtualVegas

    I cant seem to download the file is the link down?

  • Cadal Gamer

    Looks like his removed the /Virtual_Machine_Library/ dir and everything under it. aka VNX/UBER/UBER_VNX(NFS)v1.ova

  • James

    A few working links here in the mean time:
    https://community.emc.com/message/580376#580376

  • Anonymous

    Downloads are on new HTTP links – no more ftp

  • http://www.bussink.ch Erik Bussink

    Nick, it’s now January 2012. Should I use your UBER VNX  v1 implementation or download the VNX Simulator 7.0.35.3 from Powerlink.emc.com which is Date October 12, 2011. Thanks.

    • Norman Toro

      I am using the powerlink updated for this year.  They work well but some issues with user admin.  CIFS and NFS work great.  They even have a dual data mover version, but it needs 4gb ram to start up vs the 2gb for the single data mover version.  Hit me up on email if you have any questions norman.toro@emc.com.  Best wishes

  • FlaD90

    I cant seem to download from any of the links…anyone have the same problem?

  • venkat

    can i use this as iSCSI Target Server….

  • Raj Shatru293

    Hi i am able to run the .vmk file in vmware but i am unable to launch the GUI interface, please let me know that how to make the GUI working.

  • Raj Shatru293

    i have VNX 5100 installed in my company and i cannot do testing on it, if possible please let me now the whole installation process. Thank you.