Hi Chris,  Yes. The scenario you describe would work.  Although not recommended, you could even manage the same storage pools from both ViPR instances.  The only challenge you’d have (and why we don’t recommend this approach) is that ViPR might not reflect the most updated used/free capacities. If there are changes in utilization made by one instance, the other instance would not know about these changes until there is a discovery job to update the used/free capacities information.  Regards
I have a lab with a ViPR instance (2+1) that contains all our storage systems in the lab, except for one storage pool in one VNX. What would happen if I installed another ViPR instance (2+1 or 1) and connected it to the same SMI-S provider that is used already to manage the other storage pools on the same VNX system. I would deregister all the storage pools that are being managed by the first ViPR instance and would keep only the one storage pool that is not managed by the first ViPR instance.To make it easy:ViPR 1 – VNX 1 - Storage Pool 1 + Storage Pool 2 + Storage Pool 3ViPR 2 – VNX 1 – Storage Pool 4To be clear, we are talking about VNX block.Would this work?
Running 2 ViPR Instances with 1 Storage System