Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Product Guide
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Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Product Guide VMAX 250F, 450F, 850F, 950F with HYPERMAX OS REVISION 11 Copyright © 2016-2019 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Published February 2019 Dell believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS-IS.“ DELL MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. USE, COPYING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF ANY DELL SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION REQUIRES AN APPLICABLE SOFTWARE LICENSE. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners. Published in the USA. Dell EMC Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748-9103 1-508-435-1000 In North America 1-866-464-7381 www.DellEMC.com 2 Product Guide VMAX 250F, 450F, 850F, 950F with HYPERMAX OS CONTENTS Figures 7 Tables 9 Preface 11 Revision history...........................................................................................18 Chapter 1 VMAX All Flash with HYPERMAX OS 21 Introduction to VMAX All Flash with HYPERMAX OS................................. 22 VMAX All Flash hardware specifications........................................ 24 Software packages ....................................................................................25 HYPERMAX OS.......................................................................................... 27 What's new in HYPERMAX OS 5977.1125.1125.............................. 27 HYPERMAX OS emulations........................................................... 28 Container applications .................................................................. 29 Data protection and integrity......................................................... 31 Inline compression......................................................................... 38 Chapter 2 Management Interfaces 41 Management interface versions..................................................................42 Unisphere for VMAX...................................................................................42 Workload Planner.......................................................................... 43 FAST Array Advisor....................................................................... 43 Unisphere 360............................................................................................ 43 Solutions Enabler........................................................................................43 Mainframe Enablers....................................................................................44 Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR)................................... 44 SMI-S Provider...........................................................................................45 VASA Provider............................................................................................45 eNAS management interface .....................................................................45 Storage Resource Management (SRM)......................................................46 vStorage APIs for Array Integration............................................................46 SRDF Adapter for VMware® vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager.................47 SRDF/Cluster Enabler ............................................................................... 47 Product Suite for z/TPF.............................................................................47 SRDF/TimeFinder Manager for IBM i......................................................... 48 AppSync.....................................................................................................48 Chapter 3 Open Systems Features 51 HYPERMAX OS support for open systems.................................................52 Backup and restore using ProtectPoint and Data Domain...........................52 Backup.......................................................................................... 52 Restore..........................................................................................53 ProtectPoint agents...................................................................... 54 Features used for ProtectPoint backup and restore...................... 54 ProtectPoint and traditional backup.............................................. 54 More information...........................................................................55 Product Guide VMAX 250F, 450F, 850F, 950F with HYPERMAX OS 3 CONTENTS VMware Virtual Volumes............................................................................ 55 VVol components.......................................................................... 55 VVol scalability.............................................................................. 56 Vvol workflow................................................................................56 Chapter 4 Mainframe Features 59 HYPERMAX OS support for mainframe......................................................60 IBM z Systems functionality support..........................................................60 IBM 2107 support........................................................................................ 61 Logical control unit capabilities................................................................... 61 Disk drive emulations..................................................................................62 Cascading configurations........................................................................... 62 Chapter 5 Provisioning 63 Thin provisioning........................................................................................ 64 Pre-configuration for thin provisioning.......................................... 64 Thin devices (TDEVs)....................................................................65 Thin device oversubscription......................................................... 66 Open Systems-specific provisioning..............................................66 CloudArray as an external tier.................................................................... 68 Chapter 6 Native local replication with TimeFinder 69 About TimeFinder....................................................................................... 70 Interoperability with legacy TimeFinder products.......................... 70 Targetless snapshots......................................................................71 Secure snaps................................................................................. 72 Provision multiple environments from a linked target.....................72 Cascading snapshots..................................................................... 73 Accessing point-in-time copies...................................................... 73 Mainframe SnapVX and zDP.......................................................................74 Chapter 7 Remote replication solutions 77 Native remote replication with SRDF..........................................................78 SRDF 2-site solutions.................................................................... 79 SRDF multi-site solutions.............................................................. 82 Concurrent SRDF solutions........................................................... 83 Cascaded SRDF solutions..............................................................84 SRDF/Star solutions......................................................................85 Interfamily compatibility................................................................ 90 SRDF device pairs......................................................................... 93 SRDF device states....................................................................... 95 Dynamic device personalities.........................................................98 SRDF modes of operation..............................................................98 SRDF groups................................................................................100 Director boards, links, and ports................................................... 101 SRDF consistency........................................................................ 102 SRDF write operations................................................................. 102 SRDF/A cache management........................................................ 107 SRDF read operations....................................................................111 SRDF recovery operations............................................................ 112 Migration using SRDF/Data Mobility............................................ 115 SRDF/Metro ............................................................................................ 120 SRDF/Metro life cycle................................................................. 122 4 Product Guide VMAX 250F, 450F, 850F, 950F with HYPERMAX OS CONTENTS Disaster recovery facilities........................................................... 124 SRDF/Metro resiliency.................................................................125 Witness failure scenarios..............................................................130 Deactivate SRDF/Metro............................................................... 131 SRDF/Metro restrictions............................................................. 132 RecoverPoint...........................................................................................