Perhaps your post would be more useful if you would actually write about all the benefits of the V-Max and anything you might have. An objective view might help, not favoring one or the other

Fact about SSDs and EMC is that EMC was the first company to introduce SSDs in enterprise class systems, such as the Symmetrix.

I also don’t think that V-Max is like Invista, well because EMC GA’ed the product unlike Invista. However the fact that the DMX still exists as a separate product does lead me to believe that EMC has doubts about the V-Max overall. I think that they are hedging their bets here.

And TSM *still* requires replication to be suspended while relocating volumes - what does that mean to HAM? Are your banking customers to be out of compliance whilst volumes are MANUALLY relocated on both sides of the cluster?

Surely thou jesteth!

Oh - and a friendly reminder - Symmetrix supported SATA drives AND flash drives more than a YEAR before Hitachi added support for same in the USP-V. Amd your vaunted CTO Hu Yoshida spent almost a YEAR justifying the delay under the shroud of “customers aren’t asking for flash,” “nobody needs flash,” and “it’s not reliable enough.” Yet here you finally have the same STEC EFDs on your price list (albeit in the smaller, higher-cost-per-gigabyte configurations).

And even today your DIRECT sales reps are still telling customers Flash isn’t reliable - even though it’s actually on your price list! Meanwhile EMC customers are taking advantage of EMC’s Unfair First-Mover Competitive Advantage to save money and gain a competitive edge themselves!

Alas, you continue to insult the intelligence of your audience.

You obviously haven’t heard of the SVC split cluster configurations we’ve been shipping for over a year then. Does the same thing but with a lot less cost… maybe I should write a post about it to enlighten you all.

Barry

In the midst of a global depression, and while your parent company bleeds Yen like water, you guys have the gall to require the purchase of 2x the capacity, 2x the controllers, using 2x the power, cooling and space - all just to get an HA solution?

And then you turn around and claim all this duplication of resources is a CAPEX and OPEX *REDUCTION*?

Not to mention REQUIRING synchronous replication SW for both arrays, AND for all hosts to run Hitachi path management software and with least 2 HBAs and to be RECONFIGURED (disruptively) to drive 1/2 of I/Os to each of the two arrays across each HBA.

Methinks you truly underestimate the intelligence of your audience. I doubt many will take your offer of Green Eggs and HAM seriously.

Forutnately for EMC customers, the platforms already deliver more than enough 9’s of availability, and PPME handles non-disruptive migrations into both DMX and V-Max. And V-Max changes everything, driving customers to reconsider the importance of storage virtualization altogether.

But…I guess when HDS/Hitachi were caught flat-footed by V-Max, you had to scramble to come up with SOMETHING to show you were still alive.

Nice try, but the world has already seen through your ruse…

But do tell us - when does all this (expensive) magic ship? I’ve heard your beta was slipped from May to August - any chance you’ve pre-announced an untested (and unproven) solution here?

If you had been there you might actually be able to say somethin usefull instead of just bashing around on three tweets.

Wait, read and then talk.

Regards,
Bas