Fancy running a virtualized EMC VNX or Celerra instance in your own lab? Well, good news this is totally possible and for free (.small print: Doesn’t include lab hardware and batteries not included). I’ve run a couple of webinar sessions over the past 18 months on setting up and running the EMC VNX and Celerra virtual storage appliance (VSA), and still regularly have people ask how they get their hands on a copy of these free to use VSAs. There are a handful of EMC VNX and Celerra VSA download links out on the web though many of these no longer work, so I decided to put this post together with the latest working download links. Check out the ‘Useful Links’ section at the bottom of this post for a copy of my webinar slide decks (pdf). Before you start downloading your own copy of the EMC VNX or Celerra VSA you should be aware of the following points:.
It’s FREE to download and use. Great for learning or up-skilling yourself with EMC VNX and/or Celerra storage including Unisphere web based management interface. It acts and behaves like a real EMC VNX or Celerra in almost all areas. Once again, great for educational purposes. You can present the EMC VSAs out as working shared storage onto which you can run VMs or storage files. Both the EMC VNX & Celerra VSA come bundled with EMC Unisphere web based management – nice, slick easy to use web GUI interface.
It doesn’t come with any official EMC support, though if you head on over to the there are some great folks that may be able to help you. It’s only intended for use in a lab environment (ie: non-production), as such don’t expect blistering fast speeds from it though it is good enough to run some VMs and learn how to configure and manage the storage. The EMC VSI plugin for VMware vCenter Server works with it – did I mention that this is also free to download and use?
Head on over to to find the latest version of the VSI plugin. EMC VNX VSA = NFS Only. EMC Celerra = NFS & iSCSI. Download Links Here If you are deciding on what VSA (EMC VNX or Celerra) to download and use, I would recommend the VNX VSA as the physical version is the latest Unified Storage offering from EMC – better to invest your time in learning the more recent version in my opinion.
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So here they are folks, the download links – have fun and enjoy! EMC VNX VSA OVA: EMC Celerra VSA OVA: Easy to remember location for VSA downloads For easy future reference I have also added links to both these EMC VSA downloads in the section which can be accessed via the menu bar at the top of the page. Latest VNX File Simulator Versions Check out my other, which provides details on how to. Useful Links. Slide Deck:. Slide Deck:.
(Virtual Geek). – More information & Download (Nickapedia). – More information & Download (Nickapedia). Hi Andy, Thanks for the comment. Good point, I’ll get the post updated to reflect this new download location. I had originally written this post a few months back before the newly updated support.emc.com portal had gone live, hence pointing readers to getting the latest version of the VNX VSA from PowerLink (see bottom of page).
It’s nice to finally see the VSA’s out from the depths of PowerLink, which many had difficulty navigating and/or gaining access to, the support.emc.com is looking MUCH nicer and easier to use. I’m going to also keep these versions of the VSAs live as they are the Uber versions of the VSA that Nick Weaver had pulled together that had proven very popular for home lab use and include a few additional tweaks which, originally, made the installation process a little easier for first time users of a Celerra/VNX. I’ll definitely be downloading the 2013 Q1 update of the VNX VSA to give it a try, and recommend others take a look also. Cheers, Simon. Hi, Oracle seem to be constantly updating the security of the Java client, so much so it impacts on the smooth running of apps that use Java such as Unisphere. To get around these security issues, simply set the Java client (but only if you feel comfortable doing this) to the minimum security setting and also add an exception for the address/IP of the Control Station on the VNX/Celerrra simulator.
This should then allow you to connect, though you will still be prompted a couple of times to confirm that you are happy to proceed when logging on, etc. Hope this helps, Simon. Hi Eric, Thanks for letting me know. They were, as you unfortunately found out, we’re old (dead) links. I have now updated them so they are now working. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed at all, but there is a new EMC vVNX that has been released. As before it is free to download, and use, with the only catch being that there is no “official” support and that is isn’t intended for production use.
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The resource requirements are higher than those found with these earlier versions of the VSA/Simulator, though the vVNX is both block and file, and in all a much nicer experience to get up and running. Check out this link here for more details: Hope this helps, Simon.
Use exist central server to manage your QNAP NAS with Q’center virtual appliance. How to Start 2.1. System Requirements To use Q'center Virtual Appliance, your server needs to match the following requirements: Minimum requirements:108 GB free disk space, 1 GB memory and 4 virtual CPUs Supported platforms: VMware ESXi (ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.5), VMware Fusion 7, VMware Workstation 11, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V 3.0, and Oracle VM Virtualbox (non-official). Download Q’center Virtual Appliance To obtain the Q’center Virtual Appliance, go to the below link and download one of the different packages depending on your virtual environment.
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After downloading, extract and put the Q’center folder in your server. Select “Tools” in the top-right corner and click “Hyper-V Manager” to start importing Q’center In the Hyper-V Manager, select a server and choose “Import Virtual Machine”. The system will then ask you to select a folder. Select the folder that you downloaded and extracted earlier. Follow the wizard to continue.
In “Choose Import Type”, select “Copy the virtual machine (Create a new unique ID)”. After the settings are completed, the Hyper-V manager will start importing Q’center to your server.
You will now see Q’center in the “Virtual Machine” list. Right click on it and select “Connect” to start Q’center. Q’center will be displayed in the “Virtual Machine” list, right click on it and select “Connect” to start Q’center.
Please check Chapter 4 to start configure your Q’center. Deploy Q’center in VMware ESXi To deploy Q’center Virtual Appliance in VMware, open VMware vSphere Client and log in to your server. Select “File” “Deploy OVF Template” in the menu bar to start deployment.
In the wizard, find the folder that you downloaded and extracted earlier, and select the “Q’center” OVF file to continue. In 'Inventory', right click on 'qcenter' in the left list, select 'Power on' and 'Open Console' to connect. Use Q’center Virtual Appliance After connecting, a console will display for Q'center. In the console, it will show a http address where you can connect to the Q'center UI. Open your browser and type in the address to start initializing Q'center by changing the password, time zone, set up the IP address and add servers. When all of the settings are completed, you can now use the Q'center Virtual Appliance.
Otherwise, you can type in the default account and password admin/admin to login to the console. #If your browser says that the connections is not private, select “Advanced”, and “Proceed to your Q’center address” first so you can import SSL settings into Q’center.