What is ECS Community Edition?

#What is ECS Community Edition?

ECS Community Edition is a free, reduced footprint version of EMC's celebrated ECS software. Of course, this means there are some limitations to the use of the software, so the question arises; how is the Community Edition of ECS different from the production version?

##License differences

As noted with the included license, ECS Community cannot be used in production environments and is intended to be used for trial and proof of concept purposes only. This software is still owned and protected by EMC.

##Feature differences

It is important to note that ECS-Community Edition is not the same as ECS software and as such lacks some features that are integral to the actual ECS software.

• ECS Community Edition does NOT support encryption
• ECS Community Edition does not include ECS' system management, or "fabric", layer

##Notice

Because of these differences, ECS Community Edition is absolutely not qualified for testing failure scenarios. Failure scenarios can only be adequately mimicked on the full version of ECS Software.