What’s New in v2.4?

Jason Nash
www.jasonnash.com
@TheJasonNash
 Things to Consider

iSCSI
Snapshots Volume Resize
Enhancements

Encryption RESTful API AIX Support

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 Caution About Passwords!

EMC changed some of the default passwords in the v2.4 release!

They have asked that the passwords not be made publically available

Will need to contact EMC support to obtain them for your XtremIO

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 Snapshots
Data
 Take snapshots from regular volumes
or other snapshots

 No performance penalty for snapshot

access
Snapshot
 Snapshots can be mounted by hosts
and are read/write

 Fast due to metadata operations

Snapshot Snapshot

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 Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)

 Encrypts data on the drives in the

cluster
 Uses self-encrypting drives

 Protects against theft of media

 Can encrypt data that already exists

in the cluster before upgrade

 Supports 20TB and newer 10TB

Bricks

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 iSCSI Enhancements

CHAP & Mutual

Jumbo Frames
CHAP

Single Point
iSCSI TCP Port
Discovery

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Lab
Show new v2.4 features

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 Summary

 New Features in v2.4

 Snapshots

 Data At Rest Encryption

 iSCSI Enhancements

 RESTful API

 Resize Volumes

 AIX Support

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