Certified Product: EMC VPLEX with GeoSynchrony version 5.0
EMC Corporation
176 South Street
Hopkinton MA, 01748
Phone: 866-438-3622
Web: http://www.emc.com/
EMC VPLEX with GeoSynchrony 5.0 (hereafter referred to as VPLEX), was the subject of a Common Criteria evaluation performed by the Common Criteria Evaluation Facility at EWA-Canada, located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The evaluation was completed on 9 December 2011.
The evaluation of VPLEX determined that this Information Technology (IT) product can be trusted, to an assurance level of EAL 2 augmented, to conform to the requirements of the associated security target. The augmentations consisted of the following: ALC_FLR.2 (Flaw reporting procedures).
VPLEX is a storage network-based federation solution that provides non-disruptive, heterogeneous data movement and volume management functionality. VPLEX is a software-only TOE that connects to a Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) or Ethernet switches. The TOE enforces an access control policy on hosts attempting to read from or write to the storage that the TOE controls. The VPLEX architecture is designed as a high availability solution.
The TOE consists of only the software portion of VPLEX, which is comprised of the following:
- The management server software, including the VPLEX command line interface (CLI) and the management console web-based graphical user interface (GUI). The management server software is used to issue administrative commands;
- The director software which facilitates Input/Output communication between the front-end hosts and the back-end storage arrays in a SAN; and
- The VPLEX witness software which provides availability and integrity protection for data controlled by the TOE.
The scope of this evaluation is defined by the security target, which identifies assumptions made during the evaluation, the intended environment for the VPLEX, the IT security requirements to be met, and the level of confidence (evaluation assurance level) to which it is asserted that the VPLEX satisfies its IT security requirements. Consumers are advised to verify that their operating environment is consistent with the security target, and to give due consideration to the recommendations stated in the certification report.
Product Type: Distributed Storage Federation
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