Storage Optimization with Unity All-Flash Array

Dell EMC Unity is a powerful midrange storage array with high-performance and deployment flexibility; it is available in the Hybrid model and All-Flash model. This solution is recommended for a mixed workload environment, remote office, and small-sized deployment. Unity systems are designed to have a simple and easy implementation, configuration, and administration.

In this book, the reader will get an overview of Dell EMC Unity Hybrid and All-Flash storage.
This book includes seven chapters, wherein you will learn the hardware installation of Unity storage and UnityVSA deployment, storage provisioning, data protection, and data replication across two Unity systems. The reader will also learn how to migrate Block data to Dell EMC Unity storage from the source storage using a data migration methodology.

Tagline

Learn deployment and configuration of Unity storage

Key Features

* Overview of Dell EMC Unity Hybrid and All-Flash storage
* Deployment of Dell EMC Unity storage and UnityVSA
* Management of Dell EMC Unity storage
* Data protection on EMC Unity storage
* Data replication across EMC Unity storage
* Data Migration across EMC Unity storage

What Will You Learn

By the end of the book, you will have knowledge of various features of Dell EMC Unity storage, e.g., deployment, storage provisioning, and data protection and replication. Finally, you will learn a different migration methodology to migrate data to Unity storage from the source storage.

Who This Book is For

The book is intended for anyone wanting to learn the plan and design of Dell EMC Unity storage. Storage administrators and architects, in particular, can learn about storage provisioning, data protection, and data migration in this book.

1. Dell EMC Unity Overview
2. Dell EMC Unity Installation
3. Dell EMC Unity Administration and Management
4. Dell EMC Unity Data Protection
5. Dell EMC Unity Replication
6. Host Connectivity of Dell EMC Unity
Data Migration to Dell EMC Unity

Victor Wu is a senior solutions architect with over thirteen years of experience in system infrastructure, mainly focusing on storage, virtualization, and HCI solutions. He is the only qualified person in Macau with a certificate in VMware VCIX6.5-DCV, VCIX6-DCV, VCAP6.5-DCV Design, VCAP6-DCV Deploy, VCAP6-DCV Design, VCAP6-DTM Design, VCAP5-DCD, VCAP5-DCA, and VCAP4-DCA. Further, he was awarded VMware vExpert 2014/2015/2016/2017/2018/2019, vExpert NSX 2016/2017/2018, vExpert VSAN 2017/2018/2019, vExpert PRO, Cisco Champion 2017/2018/2019, Veeam Vanguard 2019, and Dell EMC Elect 2017. He has authored Mastering VMware vSphere Storage and Cisco UCS Cookbook, published by Packt Publishing in July 2015 and March 2016, respectively. Victor has participated in Dell EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing Competition in 2018 and 2019; his technical article has been selected for publication. You can find his technical articles “Storage Migration - Hybrid Array to All-Flash Array” and “Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRail” here: