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August 27th, 2014 13:00

Ask the Expert: EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS) – New Release, New Name, New Virtual Edition

Welcome to this EMC Ask the Expert session. On this occasion we'll answer questions on the latest ESRS release, new name and virtual edition.


ESRS has enabled secure remote monitoring and repair for customer EMC products since 2006. With the September launch of ESRS v3.02, the name has changed slightly (the last “S” now stands for “Services”) and the solution has been REDEFINED for the 3rd platform of IT. This virtual edition of ESRS is EMC’s new gold standard solution for remote connected services. ESRS v3.02 is a virtualized appliance that is more flexible than pervious ESRS configurations and built to scale with EMC’s portfolio of solutions and the growth of our customers. This Ask The Expert event is your opportunity to find out more about ESRS v3.02 by discussing:

  • Technical and security questions
  • Site planning activities
  • Key differences between the virtual edition of ESRS and previous releases
  • Integration with EMC Online Support
  • Future roadmap for features and enhancements

To find out more about ESRS v3, read the recent Support Community blog and take a look at this new ESRS demo.

Here are your Subject Matter Experts:

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is a Solution Consultant with 21 years at EMC and 38 years in the Technology/IT business. Dan has helped develop or architect or manage all of the secure remote components during his time at EMC (at one time or another). He is interested in further enhancing Secure Remote Connectivity.

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is a Program Manager for GS - Secure Remote Services at EMC. He holds a B.S. in Information Mgmt & Technology and M.S. in Information Management from Syracuse University. Josh is an expert in Secure Remote technologies and integrated connectivity solutions with 6+ years at EMC between IT and GS, covering various technical and strategic roles.

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is a Field Support Specialist at EMC. He has been employed by EMC since August 2005 and working with ESRS since it was introduced in early 2006. James has worked with all three major releases. He has written a number of local procedures that cover installation, configuration and troubleshooting of the various ESRS components. In his lab he has ESRS running on W2K3, W2K8, W2K12, Red Hat, CentOS and Suse Enterprise. He also recently installed the ESRS Virtual Edition product on VMware.


This Event will take place from September 8 - 26, 2014.


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August 27th, 2014 13:00

Well ..in the South East region we like to call James, Mr ESRS

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September 8th, 2014 07:00

Hello,

Has ESRS v3.02 virtual edition been released  ?

Regards,

Pawan

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September 8th, 2014 09:00

Thank you Josh.

That's Helpful !!

Regards,

Pawan

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September 12th, 2014 07:00

The user ESRSConfig is not important so no changes would need to be made if the password was changed.  If the password for OnAlert was changed and if the customer uses FTP in their environment and if they have any arrays which use FTP connect home, then those arrays would have to be reconfigured for connect home to use the new password.

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September 15th, 2014 04:00

I just read the release notes for OE for Block patch 74 (VNX2) and I stumbled on this new ESRS. The thing we are concerned about is security. We are ISO "security" certified (don't remember which number that is) and we have to make absolutely sure that nobody (EMC) is able to "hop" from the EMC endpoint (the faulty VNX for example) to another node in that subnet, or worse: on another subnet.

As soon as we have a dedicated "EMC subnet" we will definitely investigate ESRS and probably implement. Finally

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September 15th, 2014 05:00

Hello all,

I'm new to ESRS, but I wanted to make sure that this can be also configured for EMC software based products, such as NetWorker and DPA for example?

Thank you,

Carlos

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September 15th, 2014 05:00

ESRS 3.2 Virtual Edition will run on a virtual machine in VMware or Hyper-V.

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September 15th, 2014 05:00

ESRS is designed to monitor hardware and to provide a means to remote access those arrays in the event of trouble.  It does not currently support software products like NetWorker or DPA.

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September 15th, 2014 05:00

Can ESRS be deployed using HyperV or KVM ?

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September 15th, 2014 06:00

Yes, Avamar is supported.  See the Release Notes for all the supported arrays.

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September 15th, 2014 06:00

Not Networker and DPA, but we can configure Avamar, isnt it?

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September 15th, 2014 07:00

Hmm. Interesting how phone home has evolved.

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September 15th, 2014 12:00

For those existing ESRS customers, will EMC drive migration to v3 or this is now customer driven?

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September 15th, 2014 13:00

May be one day the third platform for IIG stuff

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September 16th, 2014 15:00

  1. Policy Manager still requires a Window machine ok, so how about some HA pairing, for example in my organization we have two physical sites. Each site has a pair of ESRS gateway machines running Win2k8 R2.  If i decided to slowly transition from Win machines to Virtual appliances what are my limitations. Do i have to have each HA pair to be virtual, can one member of HA pair be a Windows machine ? Can i have one HA pair be all virtual appliance and another HA pair still be running on Win2k8 ?
  2. This is kind of applies to all EMC appliance solutions (solutions enabler, Unisphere for VMAX).  So you are going to give me an appliance that runs SLES ?  Who is responsible for patching this appliance with the latest security patches (OpenSSL comes to mind) ?
  3. What is the migration path from Win solution to virtual appliance. Can i export configuration from a Win box and import into the appliance ? I do not want to deploy brand new VMs, i want to re-use the same IP/DNS names so that i don't have to revisit every single VMAX/Isilon/DD ..etc and point them to new VMs.
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