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# Unisphere for PowerMax - What's New

Unisphere for PowerMax enables the user to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.

Unisphere for PowerMax is a HTML5 web-based application that allows you to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems. See Overview of Unisphere for PowerMax for an overview of the applications and functionality of Unisphere for PowerMax.

The following table describes the user interface impacting features that are introduced in Unisphere for PowerMax in release 10.3.0. For information about all the new features in this release, see the Unisphere for PowerMax Release Notes.

Table 1. User interface impacting features
Feature name | Feature Description
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Suitability Checking for What if Scenarios with recommendations | Unisphere provides a new planning dashboard, displaying historical and predicted headroom data for each array, helping you make more informed decisions. The new progressive provisioning wizard allows you to quickly determine the best location for a new workload, considering the total system performance of all available candidate storage systems. You can define workloads with minimal input for a rapid suitability check or follow a guided process with automatic port selection for a more detailed configuration. Once you have defined a planning job, you can see the impact of the new workload on the array's headroom over time, enabling you to plan for optimal performance (see Managing planning jobs using a Planning dashboard).
REST API - Zero touch for management settings | This feature supports the enhancement of Unisphere for PowerMax REST API . This enhancement enables customers to configure Unisphere application settings, managed storage array settings, and provide the capability to maintain that configuration across the entire data center. Full details are described in theDell PowerMax 10.3.REST API Changelog and PowerMax REST API blog.
vVol Improvements | A vVols list view has been added to the vVol dashboard. This displays all vVols on the selected system. A filtered version of this list view is available under each storage resource. The virtual disk view, accessible from the virtual machine view in the VMware dashboard, has been modified to add vVol information including volume ID, storage container name, storage resource name, and service level (see View the vVols list).
Add/Remove for Smart DR | This feature supports the addition or removal of volumes from an existing MetroDR Environment. The addition of volumes to the MetroDR environment may be achieved through Unisphere by using the Storage Group Expand functionality in the Modify Storage Group dialog and the ‘Add Volumes To SG’ dialog, or by using the new Modify MetroDR Environment wizard. Using the Modify Storage Group dialog expands the number of volumes in the MetroDR environment with minimal input from the user. Using the Modify MetroDR Environment wizard gives the user greater control over which SRDF Groups should be used for the Staging Area. Removing volumes from the MetroDR environment may be performed through the MetroDR Modify Wizard or the Remove Volumes dialog under the Volumes tab in SG All Details (see Add volumes to a SRDF/Metro Smart DR environment), Remove volumes from a SRDF/Metro Smart DR environment, Add volumes to storage groups, Remove volumes from storage groups, Remove volumes from storage groups, and Modify storage groups.
Mode changes between SRDF/S and SRDF/Metro | An enhancement has been added to allow changing the session type from SRDF/Metro to SRDF/Sync and SRDF/Sync to SRDF/Metro if both sides of the SRDF Group are running PowerMax OS 10.3.0 and later. The session type can be modified in Unisphere using the existing Set Mode dialog (see Convert SRDF/S to SRDF/Metro or SRDF/Metro to SRDF/S and Set SRDF mode).
IPV6 Support for vVols | This feature enables control path IPv6 support for vVols on PowerMax (see Add authorization rules).
OIDC Protocol for SSO with Pacific Phase 1 | This feature enables the use of OIDC SSO as a user authentication authority when logging into PowerMax (see Configure authentication authorities).
One Click Update - Phase 3 | This feature supports the upgrade of the operating system in addition to the application packages (see View OS and embedded application updates).
Enable Services to push code to the CS | This feature supports the automatic download of software packages for embedded applications. ( see View OS and embedded application updates
Secure SMTP authentication | This feature supports client authentication to the mail server, (that is used for alerts) using SMTP (see Configure an SMTP email server for alerts).
Simplify the hardware view of V4 | This feature supports the simplification of the hardware view for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 6079. The 6 protocol type columns have been replaced by one “Enabled Protocols” Column and a “Port Type” column (Fibre/GigE or None). The new Protocol column displays the currently set protocol and displays “Not Specified” if no protocol is set (see View OR directors).
Addition of Metrics to enable Triage and Automation | This feature supports additional slot collision metrics (see Thin Volume metrics).
Display the Data Reduction Ratio on enabled U4P | This feature supports the display of the “Data Reduction Ratio on Enabled” value on a PowerMax 2500 and a PowerMax 8500. This value aids in the understanding of system capacity usage (see View data reduction details).
Push Flex Filter using CUP/MFT to a specific folder on the CS | This feature supports the automatic download of flex filters for embedded applications. ( see View OS and embedded application updates

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