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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 10.1.0.0. For information about all the new features in this release, see the Unisphere for PowerMax Release Notes.

Feature name | Feature Description
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NDM support of SGs/devices protected using SRDF/Metro | This feature provides non-disruptive migration support for storage group/devices that are protected using SRDF/Metro (see Create a migration session for storage groups with SRDF/Metro protection).
File : Migration from eNAS to Next-gen File | This feature provides migration support for file objects, system configuration, and user data from eNAS to PowerMax File (see Understanding PowerMax File for storage systems).
Dynamic Data Mobility phase 1 | This feature supports dynamic movement of storage groups between PowerMax arrays (see Commit a migration session with cleanup).
AIOPS Autonomous Health through Remediations - U4P Health Score | This feature supports data driven remediations for health issues that are encountered on the PowerMax array (see View the System Health Dashboard, Understanding the system health score, View CloudIQ feed, and Review recommendations and take action).
Unisphere capacity, monitoring and reporting updates for Mainframe centric users | This feature provides an updated Mainframe dashboard with enhanced capacity, monitoring and reporting functionality. The ability to create and edit CU images and splits has been introduced. A new 'Mainframe Administrator' role has been added (see Manage storage for mainframe).
Fabric Performance Impact Notifications (FPINs) | This feature supports the display of Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPINs). FPINs (covering notifications related to Link Integrity, path congestion peer-path congestion and delivery) facilitate faster analysis of performance degradations (see View FPIN information.
Enhance Unisphere to support visual representations in order to make replication configurations clearer | This feature introduces new graphics for SRDF, Clone SG, and SnapVX storage group detailed views. The new visual representations are intended to make replication configurations clearer (see View SRDF protected and SRDF/Metro protected storage groups).
Addition of EULA | This feature supports the addition of the End User License Agreement (EULA) to the initial login screen of Unisphere, THE EULA must be read and acknowledged. (see .)
Delivery of vVols TCP/NVMe support | This feature provides vVols support for TCP/NVMe (see Create vVols NVMe masking view).
Management Interfaces TCE | This feature provides enhanced support in Unisphere for alerting, performance management, workload planning, and system logging. The ability to schedule a migration has been introduced (see Scheduling a migration).
Support for FC/NVMe on PowerMax 2500 and 8500 | This feature supports FC/NVMe on the PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage systems (see View OR directors).
Physical Hardware View | This feature provides support for a physical hardware view (see View physical view).

In addition, the following overview topics have been added to provide an overview and a central point of access for related existing help topics.

- Getting started with Unisphere for PowerMax
- Understanding workload monitoring, planning, and provisioning