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March 30th, 2012 04:00
Best practices for virtualising EMC Control Center
I had a good question the other day about virtualising EMC Control Center (ECC) and Symmetrix Management Console (SMC)
Now SMC is something we already offer as a vApp on PowerLink and it's requirements tend to be quite small so I'm happy that the virtualisation of that isn't a big deal.
ECC on the other hands is something I'm not so sure about, I found the following VMware KB Article which talks about the fact some features may not be available
“ControlCenter components that are not supported in VMware must be un-installed from the physical host before migrating that host to a Virtual Machine. For a list of ControlCenter components that are supported on an ESX Server guest, refer to the current version of the EMC ControlCenter Support Matrix available from EMC.”
Page 95-97 of the following EMC document details what components are supported on a virtualised ECC server based on the combination of hypervisor and guest OS chosen.
EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1 Support Matrix
I'd be really interested to hear of any best practices / potential gotcha's that people should be aware of when virtualising ECC. The kind of stuff that has tripped people up or caused them issues further down the line.
Thanks
Craig Stewart
vSpecialist Technical - UK/I
Jingyi1
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April 17th, 2012 23:00
Well, probably the best way is not to virutualize ECC. You can simiplely select to upgrade your ECC to propshere. EMC Prosphere is offered as vApp consisted of 3 VMs. You can easily deploy them on your VMware, although the initial configuration might take some time, the new agentless discovery is my favorite new feature. You can check the following document for more information.
https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-16194
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April 18th, 2012 04:00
Prosphere is yet to offer the feature set you get in ECC. I have my ECC infrastructure virtualized and i have not had any issues at all, granted all my ECC components reside on two servers.
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April 18th, 2012 05:00
Hi Craig,
On gotcha or item not to breeze over is that Windows 2008 User Account Control (UAC) needs to be disabled before installing the ControlCenter Console. This is in the planning guide pg 256. As Windows 7 and W2008 have the same code base the same applies for 2008 even though not stipulated :-)
That's one I can remember. If I think of any more I will post it.
Cheers,
Victor