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September 20th, 2013 21:00

What is the effects of running vSphere ESXi 5.1 Update 1 on CX4 ?

Hi People,

Can anyone here please share your experience in your environment of using VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 1 or above with the existing EMC CX4 FLARE 30 version ?

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as per the following VMWare HCL, it should be working like below:

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because by reading this article from VMware: VMware KB: EMC CX and VNX Firmware and ESX requirements for vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support it is clearly stated it's not supported.

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September 21st, 2013 18:00

CX4 doesn't support ESX5's VAAI, but you can still privision LUNs to ESX5 hosts for access. VAAI is a technology that VMware uses to offload certain disk activity/jobs to SAN storage to save Host I/O resource and improve performance. Without VAAI, you just lose some performance in some case.

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September 23rd, 2013 13:00

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