EMC宣布推出VNXe儲存陣列軟體的虛擬化版本vVNX，並特別釋出免費版vVNX Community Edition，讓使用者測試開發，並且只能使用在非生產的環境(Deploy EMC’s vVNX software-defined storage platform to increase agility and flexibility for test and development or other non-production environments.)。

安裝方式：下載OVA後直接佈署。

官方表列需求環境：
– VMware infrastructure: VMware vCenter and ESXi Server, release 5.5 or later
– Network infrastructure: 2x 1 GbE OR 2x 10 GbE
– Battery-backed Hardware RAID controller required (512MB NV Cache recommended)

Virtual appliance的設定:
– 2 vCPUs at 2GHz+ and 12 GB RAM
– Up to 4 TB Storage

有興趣請參考官方網站介紹：http://pulseblog.emc.com/2015/05/04/project-liberty-comes-to-life-introducing-software-defined-vvnx-community-edition/

下載網址，必須先註冊：http://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/vvnx.htm