If you pick an existing directory you’ll be prompted to upgrade the existing demo. Then the script will create the virtual machine Selecting a new directory will popup a confirmation to build a new demo When you run the script it will prompt you to pick a directory. vmx file and fifteen VMDKs, allready to be fired up with VMware Player, Server, Workstation or imported into ESX/ESXi. The VBS script will build a directory with a.

vbs script and a directory full of components (incl documentation). The upside is you can quickly walk through the setup of an Equallogic array, incl iSCSI, snapshots, replication, multiple arrays setup in a group etc, the DeleteAllMyDataNow command etc. You’ll need to keep obtaining and installing updates every 9 months to continue using the demo. The demo has numerous restrictions – such as fifteen 1GB disks (don’t ask me what happened to 16!), it cannot be updated using Equallogic firmware, it automatically reboots every 10 days and (most importantly) expires 9 months after the demo was built. This has been available internally at Dell since at least 2009 (the date of the included documentation) but it’s release to partners is very new – new enough that I has to alert them to the fact that the download they initially made available on had expired.

If you’re a Dell/Equallogic partner you can finally have access to a software version of a PS6000 iSCSI array.

Download equallogic firmware