Got here late….tried for VPLEX + ViPR session but arrived 15 minute late and they were done the content already (hour long session but only 15 minutes of content).

This turned out to be mostly a review of ViPR…very little Project Nile.

Came in partway through the ViPR content…

• VPLEX & RP Enhancements
• ViPR Hardening
  • IPv6 and Dual Stack Suppot
  • Security Hardening Scans
  • Compliance Certs – FIPS 140-2, Section 508, Common Criteria
• Geo-distributed datacenters
  • SSO across Geo
  • Global tenants and projects
  • Reporting across ViPR instances
• ViPR available for $0
• ViPR controller has native VASA provider – can provide VASA even if underlying storage doesn’t support VASA.
• ViPR can also integrate with VCOPs & vCAC via adapter.
• OpenStacker Cinder plugin coming in the future – Microsoft as well.
• ViPR SRM – pull together data from underlying storage as well as ViPR for complete view.
• Goal of ViPR continues to be “Data Services on Almost Any Hardware”
  • Data Services from ViPR = block, object, HDFS
  • Commodity Hardware
  • Enterprise Hardware
• Supports common industry API’s – S3, OpenStack, Centera CAS, Atmos
• ViPR Block – enabled by ScaleIO
  • Managed by ViPR controller similar to other ViPR data services
  • Virtual pools of storage with varying performance characteristics – just like ScaleIO
  • Scales to 1000’s of nodes.

Now onto Project Nile – EMC ECS Appliance…very little discussion of this other than a slide or two.