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EMC VPLEX Microsoft Advanced Feature Support
What advanced storage integration features does VPLEX currently (=version 5.3) support for the Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 platform?
I have read the 5.3 release notes but have not been able to find any information on the topic.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
garyo
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June 9th, 2014 13:00
Hi Havoc,
That would unfortunately be a no on all three of those things being supported by VPLEX.
If this is something you strongly desire I recommend talking to your account rep.
Thanks,
Gary
Fenglin1
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June 8th, 2014 20:00
Hi Havoc,
I believe VPLEX supports WinSvr 2012 R2 as its previous version 2k8, 2012 on muti-pathing, Volume Manager, Windows Server Failover Clustering. What advanced storage integration features you expected?
herman.rutten
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June 8th, 2014 23:00
Thanks for your response. The most important Win2012 storage integration features that I am looking for are:
- SMI-S provider support for SCVMM 2012 R2
- Offload Data Transfers (ODX)
- Thin provisioning space reclamation (UNMAP and TRIM)
Are any of these currently supported by VPLEX?
Fenglin1
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June 9th, 2014 02:00
Thank you for the information. I still don't have any idea about your query. Regarding the reply of
https://community.emc.com/message/773491#773491 You may connect your EMC account team to get latest information. Hope it can help you
Giuseppe_Andrea
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April 28th, 2015 04:00
ODX and TRIM are very important and useful for us: we just upgraded the VPLEX to code 5.3 and I hope we can use these features. I've to ask to my personal EMC account team but maybe someone has the aswer right now ... ?!?
Unfortunately We had several problem and we had to disable these functionalities (I/O busy on HyperV ) :-(
bye
garyo
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May 26th, 2015 15:00
Hi - Ya, sorry, the three mentioned are not supported in 5.3, or any released version of VPLEX software.
I suggest filing an product enhancement request so our product management team is aware this is top of mind for our customers.
Thanks,
Gary