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EMC Unisphere is a simple, integrated experience for managing VMAX Storage Arrays, VNX Family, CLARiiON, and Celerra storage systems through both a storage and virtualization point of view. It’s designed to provide simplicity, flexibility, and automation key requirements for mid level or enterprise storage solutions.

History
EMC's first version of software for managing storage systems wall called ControlCenter. It was developed May, 1999 for their first Clariion line of storage systems. In 2002, EMC released version 6.0 and called it ControlCenter Navisphere Manager. After 30 versions of Navisphere, on May 11th 2010, EMC released Unisphere.

Terminology

 * Unisphere – The management interface for managing CLARiiON, Celerra systems, VNX and VMAX systems.
 * VNX systems - EMC’s newer generation of mid-tier solutions, unifying Celerra and CLARiiON into a single product family.
 * VMAX systems - EMC's newer generation of enterprise storage solutions.
 * Legacy systems – CLARiiON and Celerra systems.
 * Legacy Domain – A domain composed of CLARiiON and Celerra systems. VNX systems cannot join a Legacy Domain.
 * Unisphere v1.0 – The version of Unisphere used for managing CLARiiON and Celerra systems. Unisphere 1.0 cannot be used to manage VNX systems.
 * Unisphere v1.1 – The initial version of Unisphere used for managing VNX systems. Unisphere v1.1 cannot be used to manage CLARiiON and Celerra systems.
 * Unisphere v1.1.25 – The latest version of Unisphere used for managing VNX systems. Unisphere v1.1.25 can be used to manage CLARiiON and Celerra systems in a multi-domain configuration.
 * Navisphere® Manager – The management interface that was used for managing CLARiiON storage systems prior to release 30
 * Celerra Manager – The management interface that was used for managing Celerra systems prior to DART 6.0.
 * Unisphere Client –Unisphere user interface software that can be installed on a Windows workstation.
 * Unisphere Server –Unisphere management server software that can be installed on a Windows server
 * VNX domain – A domain comprised of VNX systems only. CLARiiON and Celerra systems cannot join a VNX domain.
 * Multi-domain connections – User created connections between domains that support single sign on of all systems in the multi-domain structure. Multi-domain connections can be made between Legacy and VNX Domains.

Unified Management
Unisphere gives users a common experience with a single interface for managing file, block, object, and data replication. Unisphere Remote provides centralized monitoring of over 1000 VNXe systems deployed in remote and branch offices. As information continues to grow exponentially, storage systems need to be intelligent enough to automatically optimize for both performance and cost savings. Unisphere offers features such as: FAST (fully automated storage tiering), new FAST Cache capabilities, and block data compression that further extend EMC’s advantages in unified storage.

EMC FAST technology allows automated data movement within an array and provides granular analysis and automated movement of block data at the sub-LUN level in CLARiiON Celerra, VNX and VMAX storage systems. This enables automated policies to make use of high performing Enterprise Flash Drives. For example, instead of moving an entire 1TB (terabyte) LUN, FAST can identify the most active data within that LUN and automatically move it to the Enterprise Flash Drives. The result is a significant increase in application performance by moving only small amounts of the most active data to Enterprise Flash Drives, while also moving the less active data to lower cost SATA drives. This is especially beneficial in VMware environments as many virtual machines and data stores may reside on a single LUN, yet may have very different performance requirements.

Additionally, new automated analysis and policy-based movement of data with EMC FAST saves time by having the storage system do the work. FAST policy options will now include “auto-tiering” based on I/O (input/output) patterns, “highest tier” for maximum performance, and “lowest tier” for best cost optimization. Integration of FAST with new EMC Unisphere software allows easy configuration and scheduling of automatic data movement. Together, these help customers increase automation for simplicity and lower operational costs.

Unisphere incorporates Enterprise Flash Drives FAST Cache, a performance optimization feature. FAST Cache uses Enterprise Flash Drives to extend existing cache capacities for accelerated system performance and automatic absorption of unpredicted spikes in application workloads. FAST Cache is a fundamental change for the midmarket, providing a multi-terabyte read and write cache, which is easily configured and monitored using EMC Unisphere. While FAST provides capacity optimization and lower costs over the long-term, FAST Cache accelerates performance to address unexpected workload spikes.

Customizable
Unisphere provides customizable dashboard views, graphics, and data tables that present users with valuable information in the context of how they manage storage.

Storage Provisioning
Unisphere eliminates complexity with an application-driven approach to provisioning storage that uses wizards to automatically implement best practices.

Virtualization Integration
Unisphere automatically discovers all virtual machines and provides storage administrators with end-to-end mapping of the virtual environment.

Example
Provisioning storage: First - Log into into Unisphere: