Fancy running your own EMC Isilon, VNX, VNXe or ViPR installation in your own lab environment, to try out, trial and/or educate yourself with? If so, you’ve come to the right post! Here I provide the links to virtual instance simulators that are free to download, install, configure and use – plus there are no time restrictions on any of them! There is plenty of learning and fun to be had with trying out and running these EMC storage simulators in your own lab. I will be … [Read more...]
Get Your Own EMC Support Portal Logon in 3 Easy Steps
This post outlines how to get your own EMC.com support portal logon account in three easy steps! Once you have created an account and have logged on you then have access to a wealth of technical, marketing and most excitingly, EMC product simulators, Virtual Storage Appliances (VSA) and VMware Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) plugins for EMC’s various storage platforms. Having access to the EMC support portal is more exciting than ever with EMC releasing more and more (albeit … [Read more...]
EMC VNX Simulator (VSA)–How to download the latest version
How to download the latest version of the EMC VNX Simulator (VSA): Here’s a quick guide that shows you how to get hold of and download the latest EMC VNX Simulator (VSA). For those of you who are not familiar with it, the physical EMC VNX is a unified storage appliance with both file and block storage capabilities, can contain Flash and SAS based storage, and provides connectivity either via Fiber and/or Ethernet (NAS). It also harnesses some pretty useful and powerful technologies such as … [Read more...]
EMC VNX and Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) – Free Download Link
Fancy running a virtualized EMC VNX or Celerra instance in your own lab? Well, good news this is totally possible and for free (*small print: Doesn’t include lab hardware and batteries not included). I’ve run a couple of webinar sessions over the past 18 months on setting up and running the EMC VNX and Celerra virtual storage appliance (VSA), and still regularly have people ask how they get their hands on a copy of these free to use VSAs. There are a handful of EMC VNX and Celerra VSA download … [Read more...]
Webcast Recording – Install & Run the EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)
I recently presented a webcast entitled “Install & Run the EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance”. This was great fun to present and was well attended with 165+ viewers. In this webcast I covered the topic of installing, configuring and running an EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) with background on how the Celerra hangs together and a demonstration of how easy it is to get the Celerra VSA up and running, complete with a basic Linux VM being served from it. After … [Read more...]
EMC Webcast – Install & Run the EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance
I’ve been asked to present a webinar at this months upcoming ‘EMC Live Webcast Series’ and have decided that a session on installing, configuring and running the EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) would be good fun and hopefully a topic of interest that many of you may enjoy tuning into. It is scheduled to run on the following date: Thursday 3rd February 2011 8:00 am PT / 11:00 am ET / 16:00 GMT Here is the official description on what the webinar will cover: Discover … [Read more...]
Installing the EMC Celerra UBER VSA in your VMware vSphere Lab – Part 2
In this second part of the running the EMC Celerra Virtualized Storage Appliance (VSA) in your VMware vSphere lab series we will take a look at how to install the Celerra UBER VSA. If you missed the first part of the series I would recommend heading back to the article here and have a read as this will provide you with useful knowledge on the Celerra storage appliance which will help in running the virtualised edition. To kick things off with, full credit again to Nick Weaver who took the … [Read more...]