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NEW CA 1 Flexible Storage release! Become an early CA 1 Flexible Storage Version 15.1 tester

  • 1.  NEW CA 1 Flexible Storage release! Become an early CA 1 Flexible Storage Version 15.1 tester

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Feb 14, 2025 01:56 PM

    Dear Community,

    We are excited to share with you the great news that we have finished CA 1 Flexible Storage 15.1 and we are moving to the validation stage.

    Version 15.1 through Vtape provides a new capability for using commodity archive storage using TCP/IP. Write directly to TCP/IP (secure channel), no Disk Cache used, inexpensive storage of your choice, no special hardware needed, Hipersocket support and OSA support.

    Your participation offers you the ability to validate the new capabilities and provide your feedback directly to the development team.  As a participant in the validation program, you will communicate directly with the product development team to investigate and address any reported problems and to provide your thoughts on the new capability. 

    Do you want to be a part of the early testing and have a direct influence on the future shape and development of this release? This is exactly the right time and place to be!

    How to get onboarded onto the validation project?

    All the files, documentation, and other important details for the CA 1 Flexible Storage 15.1 validation are located at https://validate.broadcom.com.  To obtain access, anybody interested must be onboarded to the validation project. There are two ways how to achieve this:

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Customers can sign in to the validate site only with their email associated with https://support.broadcom.com/.

    • Request to be added

      Send an email to the Product Owner Eardis Grisby or Product Manager Perry Jones requesting the access and providing an email address. The user will be added and will receive an email invite from the validation site.

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      Eardis Grisby,
      Product Owner

      eardis.grisbyjr@broadcom.com
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    • 2.  RE: NEW CA 1 Flexible Storage release! Become an early CA 1 Flexible Storage Version 15.1 tester

      Broadcom Employee
      Posted 22 days ago
      1. Additionally, our lab testing shows ~90% off load to ZIIP.
      2. 47GB written to virtual tape in 1 minute 8 seconds.
      3. 2.8TB/hour read/write (theoretically) "What does your testing show"?

      High Level Architeture



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      Perry L Jones
      Product Manager CA 1 Flexible Storage
      email: perry.jones@broadcom.com
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