EMC VNXe 3200 – MCx Drive Mobility
Related post: ‘EMC VNX – MCx Hot Sparing Considerations’ MCx code has brought many new features including the revolutionary ‘Multicore Raid’ which includes the ‘Drive Mobility’ feature. Drive Mobility (also […]
EMC VNX – RecoverPoint Enabler Installation
Installing the RecoverPoint Enabler using NAVICLI: Check the list of all ENABLERS currently installed on the VNX: naviseccli -h SP_IP ndu -list A series of rule checks need to be […]
EMC VNX – List of Useful NAS Commands
Verify ‘NAS’ Services are running: Login to the Control Station as ‘nasadmin’ and issue the cmd /nas/sbin/getreason from the CS console. The reason code output should be as follows (see detailed list of Reason Codes below): 10 – slot_0 primary control station 11 – slot_1 secondary control station 5 – slot_2 contacted 5 – slot_3 contacted Complete a full ‘Health […]
VMware PowerCLI – MS Windows Guest VM ‘IP&DNS’ Modification
The following script allows the user to modify an MS Windows Guest VM IP and DNS configuration. You may download the ‘IP&DNS_Modification.ps1‘ script HERE (Remove the .doc extension). Begin by […]
CISCO UCS – Rebooting Fabric Interconnect(s)
Begin by connecting to the cluster IP over SSH and checking which FI is Primary/Subordinate: FI-A# show cluster state A: UP, PRIMARY B: UP, SUBORDINATE Note: show cluster extended-state will provide more detailed information. Having confirmed the ‘B’ fabric switch is the subordinate connect to FI-B mgmt cli interface: FI-A# connect local-mgmt B From FI-B local-mgmt interface issue the reboot […]
EMC XtremIO – VMware VMFS LUN Expansion
In this post I will detail how to increase an XtremIO volume and extend the associated VMware VMFS volume. As can be seen form the XtremIO management interface the existing […]
EMC VMAX³ – Front-End FC WWPN’s & Zoning Considerations
Please begin by downloading the attached PDF here. As you can see this is a fully compiled listing of all 256 possible FC WWPN’s available on a VMAX³ system. A […]
Cisco Nexus 5K – Unified Port Conversion
Nexus 5000 series UP switches have the option of either enabling individual ports as Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports. One of the strict guidelines is to begin enabling ethernet ports […]
EMC VNXe – Code Upgrade
Before proceeding with any upgrade of code on the VNXe please reference the target code release notes on https://support.emc.com/. The VNXe landing page: http://emc.com/vnxesupport will provide you with all the […]
EMC XtremIO – Redeploying XMS (XtremIO Management Server)
If the situation ever arises where you have lost your XtremIO Management Server (XMS) – do not worry as you can quite easily recover the XMS to its previous state. […]
EMC VNXe – Gen1&2 Backup Script (Powershell & UEMCLI)
——————————————————————- Reference:: EMC® VNXe® Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide: Collect -Config: Create a snapshot of the current system configuration and save it to a file. It captures all of […]
EMC VNX – ArrayConfig & SPCollect (Powershell Script)
——————————————————————- Reference: VNX® Command Line Interface Reference for Block: SPCollect : The naviseccli spcollect command selects a collection of system log files and places them in a single .zip file […]
VMware vSphere Host Path Limit
The VMware vSphere Host storage path limit as of vSphere 5.5 is 1024 and the maximum LUNs per host is 256. Maximum LUNS PER ESXi HOST = 256 Maximum FC […]
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