MEM 1.3
These capabilities eliminate multiple copies of the same data and enable customers to keep more data online longer and readily available in the event of a disaster or data loss event. Here are the DR4000 highlights:. Eliminate redundant copies of data by decreasing disk capacity requirements up to 15 times.
New features in this release:
- Support for PS Series Firmware version 8.0.x
- Support for VMware vSphere 6
- Support for Virtual Volumes (VVol)
- The routing method can be set to round-robin routing using the –—disable RR parameter with the setup.pl command
- The --bestpractices parameter of the setup.pl command now disables Large Receive Offload (LRO).
PS Series v8.0 Firmware
contains the following features and more:
- Support for PS6610 series of arrays, which includes models PS6610E, PS6610X and PS6610ES
- RAID Rebuild Delay: This feature enables delaying the rebuilding of an SSD RAID set by 24 hours to allow a new SSD to be inserted.
- Compression of Snapshots and Replicas: The compression of snapshot pages increases the free space available to users and allows them to decrease the snapshot reserve that are configured on volumes.
- Replication Borrowing: Replication borrowing enables you to temporarily increase the available replica space for a volume by borrowing space from other sources.
- Delegated Space in Multiple Pools: This feature enables administrators to assign delegated space for a single partner in multiple pools and use up to the entire storage space within the group.
- Network Interface Configuration for Fault Recovery: Stores a small amount of network configuration information outside of the database. If you experience database corruption or a multiple drive failure, the firmware will access the extra copy of stored network configuration information and enable the configuration of a network interface on your array.
- iSCSI Connections During Failover: This feature minimizes the possibility of service disruption during an upgrade or when a controller failover occurs.
- Smart Tags: This feature helps you identify, organize, and locate your volumes, facilities that can be especially helpful in a group with a large number of volumes.
- Virtual Volumes: Virtual Volumes (VVols) is a feature of VMware. This feature implements some of the concepts and controls that the VMware storage virtualization layer provides to create a more complete solution for virtual machines (VM). NOTE: This feature requires VSM v4.5 and VMware vSphere 6.
- Change in Language Packs: Starting with PS Series firmware v8.0, the Group Manager GUI defaults to the same language as your browser and operating system.
- Admin Account Password Can Be Up To 64 ASCII Characters: As of this release, admin account passwords can be up to 64 ASCII characters long.
Dell Virtual Storage Manager for Vmware v4.5.0
New in this release:
- Support for PS Series Firmware version 8.0.x
- Support for VMware vSphere 6
- Support for the virtual volume (VVol) and VM Storage Profiles.