• Unified management platform for CLARiiON, Celerra and RecoverPoint
  • Unified look and feel across all aforementioned products
  • Support for all CLARiiON >= FLARE 19
• Release data Q3 2010
• Only functions at the presentation layer
  • Will not impact the CLI so scripts will not be impacted by Unisphere
• Views
  • Dashboard
    • Unified alerting sorted by severity
    • System list in the top toll bar provides the ability to drill down from the domain level to the physical system to view details
  • System View
    • Graphical hardware depiction (finally)
  • Summary Views
    • Storage
      • Bye bye CAP reports!!!!!  (thank you)
    • Replication
  • Note:  View Blocks are widgets that are placed on the screen somewhere that Aggregate data graphically displaying utilization, capacity, etc…
    • Ability to customize views, these views are tied to the client not the user so they will stay on the client not move with the user
• Right-click provides context menu similar to what is currently available in Navisphere
• Array data is cached locally on Unisphere client
  • This will hopefully help out performance
  • Data collection from array is time stamped so you can ensure you are working with the correct data set
  • A refresh (manual) needs to be performed to query the array and refresh the Unisphere cache
  • Once the data is cached it can be manipulated
• Context sensitive help and actions
• Replication Manager (RM) and USM (Unisphere Service Manager) integration (via link and launch)
  • If apps not installed it launches PowerLink and grabs RM or USM
  • Performs the install
  • Launches the app
• USM replaces NST and unifies the ability to perform service tasks on CLARiiON or Celerra
  • USM adds the ability to track FCOs, Support Advisories, etc… via RSS feeds
  • Also provides the ability to launch to the proper location to research things (e.g. – EMC Support Forums), USM remains as the presentation layer, no need to jump around between apps.
  • Service requests can be created directly from USM

Interoperability Matrix

• Navisphere Off-Array being replace by Unisphere client and server
  • Support for Navi Analyzer off-array
• Navisphere manager license supports Unisphere, no need for an upgrade

Overall the app looks really nice considering most of us are used to using a fractured set of tools between CX, NS and RP.  Will be interested in seeing how Unisphere helps us map the use of the array.  It appears to still be a JAVA based application so the jury is out on performance until I see it.

Audience questions:

• Can you get to engineering mode from Unisphere
  • Unanswered.  Translation: Assume access to engineering mode on the CX will still require us to log into Navisphere.
• Support for Centera on the roadmap
  • Answered, Yes.  No timeframe given.
• What is the user experience like on a very large CLARiiON that is busy
  • Answer, it depends.  Translation:  It will likely still be slow.