Jun
30thPowerPath/VE : Free trial

If you are lucky enough to have an EMC backed virtual environment to work with; did you know that you can test drive PowerPath Virtual Edition (VE) for free? Go over to: https://community.emc.com/message/11590 and signup for a free 45 day trial.

This of course requires you use ISCSI or Fibre (i.e. block storage) with either VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V. But, if you have always been curious about what a truly intelligent multipathing could do for your environment, then this is a great way to give it a shot.

Also check out the information and video on Chad’s site (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2010/09/emc-powerpathve-54-sp2-vsphere-enterprise.html). Also, you will need to have at least Enterprise level licensing of vSphere for a VMware environment.

.nick

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  • http://jreypo.wordpress.com Juanma (@jreypo)

    Nick, can we use it with the Celerra VSA?

    • Anonymous

      Celerra is file system-based storage and won’t work. You need block-based like the VNX, Clariion, VMAX, or even some HP and IBM arrays.

  • Peter

    Nick, your contact form isn’t working!

    • Anonymous

      You can email me at nick at nicholasweaver.com.

      I haven’t taken time to set up SMTP on my new blog server.

      .nick


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