What are differeces between EMC Clarion and Celera?

Longlyh,

CLARiiON is a midrange storage platform that will be part of your SAN. It's block-level storage, so this is the device on which you'd create a LUN and map it to a Windows host.

Celerra is a NAS device and exports a network file system. It's designed for file sharing, user home directories, etc. In a NAS gateway configuration, Celerra could be part of your SAN, and use SAN disk for storage. In an integrated configuration,

Key difference: CLARiiON exports LUNs on which file systems can be created, while Celerra exports a file system on the network.

Grab the ISM book - it really lays it out clearly there.

Vineett,

I think you may be confusing Centera and Celerra. Centera is used for long-term archiving and is Content-Addressed Storage (CAS), while Celerra is a NAS device.

I understand little bit now. So, I will use Clarion to create LUN and map these LUNS for SQL clusters, won't I?

Yes you are right, My mistake. Apologies

Celera is NAS and

Centra is CAS

Clariion is the SAN storage and Celera is CAS

Celera is generally used for archiving.

Celera is a NAS

Centera is the CAS

Hello,

You can find product documentation on the EMC website here: http://www.emc.com/products/category/storage.htm

Or you may find the following Proven Community posts helpful:

• What is exact difference between BLOCK Level Access/Storage and FILE Level Access/Storage
  
• Block, File, Object Data: What Does This Really Mean?
  

Thanks,

Stephanie

I get it.

Thanks all for your time.