During the process of deploying an OVF (Log Insight in this example) using the vSphere Web Client running on a local windows vCenter instance, I encountered the following error:
‘A connection error occurred. Verify that your computer can connect to vCenter Server.’ Continue reading
The default built-in administrative accounts may not be granular enough to meet your business needs, if this is the case then adding an authentication provider such as Active Directory which we highlight as part of this configuration allows you to assign users or groups to specific roles.
The example configuration provided here was part of an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution. Continue reading
This post was a result of requiring access to the VCSA BASH Shell console in order to perform such functions as certificate-manager (/usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager).
The default Shell access when you initially login to the VCSA via SSH is the basic Appliance Shell:
New RecoverPoint Hardware Platform
Introducing the latest generation of RecoverPoint Appliance the ‘EMC Europa 1U’ Gen6 which replaces the ‘Intel R1000’ Gen5 Appliance. The Gen6 RPA is available from RP code levels 4.1.3 and 4.4SP1+. Gen4 (Dell PowerEdge R610), Gen5 and Gen6 appliances are supported at these code levels and may be mixed in the same cluster, but the recommended best practice is to configure the latest types as RPA 1 and RPA 2 (cluster control RPAs) to improve system function and performance.
Support for VMAX 10K, 20K, 40K, VNX, VNXe3200, VNX-F, Unity, VPLEX, XtremIO and VMAX3 arrays via VPLEX. Support for Gen6 is also included with Vblock/VxBlock CI systems.
Gen6 Spec:
The following is an excellent post written by Paul Martin (@rawstorage) which details the eMGMT feature available on VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Systems:
Two key questions that have come up recently and is addressed in Paul’s post:
What can I do with eManagement?
eManagement is a fully functional install of Unisphere for VMAX, you can do everything that is possible with Unisphere. So you have full control over array management, performance statistics, reports, Database Storage Analyzer and a full REST API.
So what happens if I need command line access for any reason, is that still possible? The answer is yes it’s still possible you can always have an external host with solutions enabler installed and gatekeepers mapped if this is something you will require on an ongoing basis. You can also configure client server access to connect and utilize the solutions enabler instance on the eManagment server. I’ll take you through that in the next section.
How do I update eManagment software running on my VMAX array?
The good news here is you don’t have to, when a new release of HYPERMAX OS (the VMAX operating environment) is installed the container running the eManagement software is updated for you automatically. One less moving part to have to worry about, and you will automatically have new features in the microcode available to you through the latest user interface..
In addition ViPR support for eMGMT is targeted for Q3 2016.
See also: EMC VMAX – Build Location and Model Type
The following table lists the serial numbers associated with VMAX3(100K,200K&400K) and VMAX All Flash(250F,450F&850F) systems:
Code Level 5977 which is known as HYPERMAX OS supports VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash systems.
The following steps detail how to suppress the vCenter cluster warning:
The number of heartbeat datastores for host is 1, which is less than required: 2
You may encounter this situation in a lab scenario where you do not have greater than 1 shared datastore per cluster. Continue reading
