Product or Software Maximum Guides

Are you looking for something in addition to the student guides for courses? It would be helpful if you could share a link to what you're looking for, so I can get this suggestion to the right group.

Hi Kate,

What I think would be a great addition would be product maximum guides generally available. An EMC equivalent of this

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf

Specific example for Symmetrix VMAX. When there is a new "major" hardware or software release then the maximums guide would be updated. An example Table of Contents could be

VMAX Enginuity 5876 maximum guide

General (e.g Max Vols)

Auto provisioning (e.g. max

Virtual Provisioning (

Local Protection

Remote Protection

FAST/FAST-VP

FTS

VMAX Hardware Guide

Engines

Drives

Storage Bays

I/O Modules etc

This would be handy for exams and general field use. If these type of docs were done on each major release of hardware cycle or software it would assist greatly knowing the maximums at a given point in time e.g Symmetrix 2012 Q4 at 5876 there would be a release of the docs for sanity checks.

A VNX equivalent the same

Just a thought for the product managers.

Victor

Not sure about Symmetrix but what you are referring is available for EMC Midrange products like Celerra, CLARiiON, VNX as EMC Confidential Document. For Customer, there should be a datasheet available. See if you find anything on: https://elabnavigator.emc.com/ under PDFs and Guides Section. [Its been a while I have logged in so I do not recall what were the documents]

For Eg. [This is just an example of 1 page]

Hi Ani,

Thanks for the info but what I was thinking of was generally available (customers, non customers alike) like VMware's maximum guide.

While the data sheet is will cover general hardware to a point it won't cover software letting you know the maximum snapshots allowed or initiators in an initiator group etc.

I work for an EMC partner (premier status soon to be signature next month all going well )  Consolidate and Advanced Consolidate champion and haven't seen any document and this is partly my point. Navigating ones way through a multitude of sites rather than having this readily available is not ideal IMO. A publicly available consolidated maximum guides would be a great asset for the certification student or field practitioner and community in general.

It is just an idea

Victor

While I agree, it is not available publicly but I think many information is available publicly via Proven Professional Curriculum route but I understand what you are referring to but I reckon there might be a reason why its not made available as a Publicly View-able Document. In a very broader and intellectually blunt sense, let me say it may be a business decision!

Lets not forget that EMC Education Services, actually retired an Expert Level Certification for one of the Path for VNX where the Product is still no EOSL and reason was they did not get the number of students. [IMHO, it takes time to prepare for expert level, I think they forgot to take that in to consideration]  So when those sorts of decisions happen, we can't do much, can we now?!