Dell UnityVSA 5.3 - Agile Software Defined Storage

Software-Defined Agile Virtual Storage Appliance for SAN and NAS

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Dell UnityVSA

Software-Defined Agile Virtual Storage Appliance for SAN and NAS

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UnityVSA Software Defined Storage on VMware

Dell UnityVSA™ (Virtual Storage Appliance) enables all the enterprise-class features of the Dell Unity XT storage array to be easily deployed on VMware ESXi servers, enabling customers to implement an affordable, highly available, software-defined storage solution on-premises ( sysin). Best of all, you get a free Community Edition license covering up to 4 TB of capacity - for use in test/dev environments.

UnityVSA software-defined storage brings many benefits to your organization, including lower acquisition cost when considering hardware consolidation, multi-tenant storage instances, remote/branch office storage deployments, and easier build/maintain/destroy usage In the environment of preparation and testing.

UnityVSA has many of the same all-inclusive software as physical arrays, allowing you to:

Offer your customers advanced file, block and vVOL data services
Set up a highly available local NAS or SAN in minutes
Allows VMware administrators to manage storage using VMware vCenter
Protect data locally with unified snapshots (sysin)
Remotely replicate data to other UnityVSA instances or Unity XT storage arrays
Automated tiering with Fully Automated Storage Tiering Virtual Pools (FAST VP) improves efficiency and simplifies storage management
Use the same HTML-5 based Unisphere management virtual appliance as the Unity XT storage array.
Connect UnityVSA to modern dev/ops, storage, workflow automation, and more with our free plug-in technology:
- Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in
- VMware vRealize Operations (vRO) Plug-in

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Ideal Application Scenario

Community Edition for test/development environments

Use the same Unity XT management GUI Unisphere
Easy Migration to Professional Edition

Professional Edition for production environments

SME
Remote Office/Business Organization
Working Groups and Departments
vertical market
- retail
- educate
- manufacture
- the medical
- government

license

The UnityVSA package includes standard integrated management and monitoring functionality (sysin) covering all aspects of UnityVSA, including operating environment, NAS and SAN protocols, Unisphere management, FAST VP auto-tiering, thin provisioning, and Unified snapshot/replication of . Also includes Unity XT 64-bit filesystem with filesystem shrink for space reclamation, VMDK cloning, Metrosync Manager and quotas.

Professional Edition - available as an annual subscription license

350 TB : 2C vCPU, 12 GB RAM, 2 nodes
350 TB : 12C vCPU, 96 GB RAM, 2 nodes
50 TB : 2C vCPU, 12 GB RAM, 2 nodes
50 TB : 2C vCPU, 12 GB memory, single node

Subscription licensing is a seamless upgrade from lower capacity points to higher capacity points, including:

Support related to software and systems
Dell Enhanced Services
Dell Secure Remote Support (SRS)

Community Edition - Free software license with community support, up to 4 TB, for test/dev environments

VM Specifications

2 Nuclear single SP deployment requirements:

Virtual memory: 12 GB
Virtual Processor Cores: 2 (2 GHz+)
Virtual Network Adapters: 6 (4 adapters for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use)
Community Edition and Professional Edition licenses

2 core dual SP deployment requirements:

Virtual memory per SP: 12 GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 2 (2 Ghz+)
Virtual Network Adapters: 9 (4 adapters for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLAN: 3 (for heartbeat signal and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only

12-core dual-SP deployment requirements:

Virtual memory per SP: 96 GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 12 (2 Ghz+)
Virtual Network Adapters: 9 (4 adapters for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLAN: 3 (for heartbeat signal and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only

VMware integrated support

vVol support for virtual machine granular data access and Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM).
VMware vStorage APIs for Storage Integration (VAAI) for file and block data, which improves performance by taking advantage of more efficient array-based operations.
vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provides VMware administrators with storage awareness.

service and support

Support for the Community Edition is provided through the Dell UnityVSA Community web page at:
http://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/unity-vsa.htm
Support for Professional Edition is provided through standard Dell Technologies support options

System Requirements

UnityVSA virtual machine requirements

2-core single-SP deployment requirements:

Virtual memory: 12GB
Virtual processor cores: 2 (2GHz+)
Virtual network adapters: 6 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use)
Community and Professional Edition licenses

2-core Dual-SP deployment requirements:

Virtual Memory per SP: 12GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 2 (2Ghz+)
Virtual network adapters: 9 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLANs: 3 (used for heartbeat and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only

12-core Dual-SP deployment requirements:

Virtual Memory per SP: 96GB
Virtual processor cores per SP: 12 (2Ghz+)
Virtual network adapters: 9 (4 adaptors for I/O, 1 for management, 1 for system use, 3 for internal communication)
VLANs: 3 (used for heartbeat and internal communication)
Professional Edition license only

UnityVSA Infrastructure requirements:

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi 6.5+ with each UnityVSA VM on a separate ESXi host
Dual-SP deployment requires vCenter 6.5+
Hardware Memory for 2-core deployment: 36GB per ESXi host
Hardware Memory for 12-core deployment: 120GB per ESXi host
Hardware network: 3 x 10GbE
Hardware RAID: 512MB NV cache RAID card (sysin), battery backed recommended
VMware datastores: NFS and VMFS supported

download link

Dell EMC Unity VSA 5.0
UnityVSA-5.0.0.0.5.116.ova, 27 Jun 2019

Dell EMC Unity VSA 5.1
UnityVSA-5.1.0.0.5.394.ova, 21 Jun 2021

Dell EMC Unity VSA 5.2
UnityVSA-5.2.0.0.5.173.ova, 29 Apr 2022

Dell UnityVSA 5.3
Baidu network disk link: https://sysin.org/blog/dell-unityvsa-5/
File Name: UnityVSA-5.3.0.0.5.120.ova
File Size: 2.6 GB
Release Date: 05/05/2023
Version : 5.3.0.0.5.120
SHA-256 Checksum: c16b59914b1d21c1388e8692c6afaa32ba6e146e9318be540a48a62ccae58549

Free application for community edition 4T capacity perpetual license, as well as initial configuration documents, are included in the download.

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