Those EMC customers who missed most EMC World 2010 announcements, like me, will find included video very exciting, it shows new storage efficiency features, and new middle range storage management GUI, coming to CLARiiON CX4 in FLARE 30. New FLARE will be released some time during this summer.
Features shown in video are
- New CLARiiON and Celerra management GUI called Unisphere, based on Adobe Flex technology
- Sub-LUN tiering – “VMware DRS” equivalency for storage medium, will migrate data based on usage between Flash, FC and SATA
- Flash cache – AKA FAST cache, up to 2 terabytes(!) of 2nd level read/write cache
- Block level compression – told to save 30% to 50% on average on your storage consumption
It is not told directly in this video but it looks like thin pools will become an standard feature on CX4, at the moment is is sold as an add-on option.
These and new vStorage API integration features make me feel that this is a good time to be EMC customer.
