EMC plans for Oracle VM storage connect Plug-ins for Oracle VM 3.0?

Does the Oracle plug-in for Symnmetrix  support FAST VP and is Solutions enabler SMI-S needed? 

Hi Andrew,

Oracle VM Storage Connect program is about allowing Oracle Hypervisor (Oracle VM) to make use of storage array capabilities such as discovery, provisioning and snaps/clones. They key point is that the management is performed at the Oracle VM Hypervisor level, not database level.

Oracle Enterprise Manager [grid-control] plugin (the one you just mentioned) is a plug-in to Oracle management software. These plug-ins are specifically tied to the database stack and provide storage array information such as database mapping all the way down to the storage, storage components performance and health.

The main difference is that Storage Connect is focused on 'Control' and OEM plug-ins on providing information. Primarily they operate in different spaces (Hypervisor vs. database) with some overlap.

As far as support, OEM plugins currently don't support FAST VP or Virtual Provisioning for that matter (which is the base technology for FAST VP).

Thanks,

Yaron

Thanks,

There is a storage and DBA team at BT that I have encouraged to login and access, as

emc community would seem to be an efficient way to answer these questions.