Virtualization & Storage
A Quantum Leap in Hyper-Converged Appliances EMC|VCE and VMware have added a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (HCIA) offering named VxRail to the existing CI portfolio of Vblocks, VxBlocks, VxRacks (Blocks,Racks,Appliances). VxRail […]
The example provided is based on the following design: Dual X-Brick Cluster Cisco MDS Switches – Dual Fabric VMware ESXi 4x Host Environment 4 Smart Zoned Paths per ESXi Host (2 paths […]
The following steps detail the installation of the ‘EMC RecoverPoint for VMs’ Splitter VIB on ESXi hosts. The requirement is to Install the ‘RP for VMs’ splitter on each ESXi […]
The following list and diagram details the respective storage-related TCP ports that ViPR uses to communicate with a particular EMC Storage product. If a firewall is present between the ViPR […]
This post will detail some general best practices for VPLEX Back-end connectivity to an XtremIO storage array. As you will see from the diagrams below each VPLEX director should have […]
There are some minor cli changes with VNXe MCX which I will document as part of this series, for VNXe GEN1 please refer to these earlier posts: EMC VNXe Gen1 Configuration Using Unisphere CLI The initial configuration steps outlined in Part1 : Accept End User License Agreement Change the Admin Password Apply License File Commit the IO Modules Perform a Health […]
Applies only to VNX2 Systems. CHOICES made in relation to the physical placement of Drives within a VNX can have an impact on how the VNX performs. The intention here […]
By Fully Pre-allocating a TDEV all the tracks associated with the device are reserved, this may be useful for mission critical apps or avoiding any write miss penalties. Example SYMCLI: Single TDEV example: symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “start allocate on tdev 0c66 end_cyl=last_cyl allocate_type=persistent;” commit Range of TDEVs: symconfigure -sid xxx -cmd “start allocate on tdev 0c6e:1116 end_cyl=last_cyl allocate_type=persistent;” commit […]
Vblock Advanced Management Pod (AMP) The AMP consists of the management components of a Vblock system, these management components are self-Contained and provide Out-of-Band Management for the entire Vblock Infrastructure. The servers and storage(in the case of AMP-2HA) that make up the AMP host all of the Vblock management applications in a dedicated environment separate from that of the production environment. This type of […]
Shutdown via UNISPHERE using the Service Account Please read all notes provided in the ‘More Information..’ section highlighted in the above image before proceeding with shutdown. Shutdown process as documented […]
The following details the maximum values common to all four X-Brick models and the maximums applicable to each specific X-Brick model. As of XtremIO Verison 4.0 there are four types […]
The VNX will have been previously zoned to the RPAs at this stage. For example purposes the config below will have the RPA1-port-3 Zoned to the VNX SP-A&B Port 4 […]
This post outlines how to create the VMAX Masking view for Gatekeeper RDM volumes and the Script to Automate Adding RDM Disk’s to a VMware MGMT VM. First some notes on Gatekeeper volumes: SE(CLI) and Unisphere(GUI) are the main tools used to manage a VMAX Array, Gatekeeper volumes are required in order to carry these commands from both CLI&GUI and […]
The following are some configuration notes for configuring SMI-S to allow communication with the ‘VNX Storage Processors’, SMI-S can then be leveraged by for example VCE Vision or ViPR to configure/report on the VNX array. Before proceeding ensure you have the both VNX Storage Processor A&B IP addresses to hand, the SMI-S host will use these IP’s to allow for […]
Guest post by the VMAX Guru – Paul Martin @rawstorage VMAX3 CLI Cheat Sheet Disclaimer, this is not a comprehensive how to, just a toe in the ocean of VMAX3, […]
The following are some configuration notes for configuring the ‘VMAX Management HOST’ for communication via SMI-S for purposes such as ‘ViPR’ or with ‘VCE Vision’. Before proceeding ensure you have […]
————————————————————————————– Reference:: VNX® Command Line Interface Reference for Block: The naviseccli ndu command -install function transfers one or more SP driver packages from a user-accessible file system to the system […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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