Just yesterday I was able to do my first FLARE 30 update on a <a href="http://www.emc.com/products/detail/hardware/clariion-cx4-model-120.htm">Clariion CX4-120</a> .

Other than the<a title="EMC.com" href="http://www.emc.com/" target="_blank"> EMC </a> &quot;invisible&quot; updates, here are a couple of my quick immediate take-aways.

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1.  Navisphere is gone. The new interface, Unisphere takes a couple minutes to get used to; but after that initial shock, I found that it was extremely easy to navigate. I was able to find everything that I was looking for quickly. I like the new interface. Here is a couple screenshots from the new interface...

This is the initial Dashboard for when you log in. Gives you a quick snapshot of all the arrays, alerts, Clariion capacity, and Celerra Capacity (if there are any on the network)

<a href="http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/uni01.png">http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/uni01.png</a>

The storage dashboard is another one that I really liked. This one gives you a great overview of a specific array. Lists LUN status, Pools with the most free capacity, and then gives you a nice pie chart of used space, free raw disk space, and free storage pools. Finally, you get a quick view of the RAID groups and their capacity.

<a href="http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/uni02.png">http://blogs.eGroup-us.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/uni02.png</a>

2.  It works in Firefox. One of the big caveats to me when dealing with Navisphere was the fact that it was a pain to get to work with anything other than Internet Explorer. Unisphere works with not only IE, but Firefox and Chrome as well.

The update was a simple process, and only took about two hours. I will post any other changes that I notice as time goes on, but I have high hopes for this new Flare with Unisphere!!

For more information about Flare 30 and Unisphere, see these posts....

<a href="http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=2356">FLARE 30 IS A GAME CHANGER</a>

<a href="http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=2245">FLARE 30 to be released this Summer - 2010</a>

<a href="http://blogs.egroup.jasonmangone.com/?p=2361">UNISPHERE WILL SOON SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY</a>