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Thank you for your question. Unity will support (in Q42016) inline compression for block LUNs on a Unity All-Flash configuration and All-Flash pools in a Unity Hybrid array. ILC for Hybrid Pools in Hybrid configuration and for file will be supported in 2017.

Can you tell something more about the "Additional inline data services" that are coming later?

I assume its some comp/dedup features but what and when?

Two VNX features that the VNXe are lacking are:

1) LUN Migration (non disruptive migration of LUNs between storage pools)

2) The concept of "Storage Groups" where you can add a bunch of ESXi servers to a single "initiator group" and then grant LUN access to the entire Storage Group.  On the VNXe when you create a LUN you need to grant host access host-by-host which can lead to user error for multiple-cluster configurations.

Are either of these features available in the EMC UnityOS?

Thanks,

Bill

Hi Alan,

Yes Unity snapshot feature utilizes Snapshot Mount Point (SMP) similar to VNX2, however in Unity at launch, each LUN has a default SMP and only one snap can be attached to the host at a time. This limitation will be removed in a follow-on release.

LUN Migration will be supported by end of this year in Unity, but not at launch.

Hello,

What's the username/password of UnityVSA-4.0.7329527?

Does the LUN replication support replication with VNX2 or VNXe?

Will Unity release make VNXe/VNX2 EOL, or what's the plan?

Unity supports sync/async replication for block and async for file. To do block replication between Unity and VNX you can use RecoverPoint.

There are no plans to date for EOL of VNX2 and VNXe