RecoverPoint GEN6 Hardware Appliance
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 […]
EMC RecoverPoint for VMs ESXi Splitter Installation
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 […]
EMC VNX – Registering RecoverPoint Initiators
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 […]
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 RecoverPoint – Updated FC Port Labeling on RP Gen5 Server
This is one that caught us by surprise! As per previous blog Post “EMC RecoverPoint Architecture and Basic Concepts” this is the port configuration as per the initial release of […]
EMC RecoverPoint Journal and Replica Volume – Performance Considerations
In this post I will detail some considerations for RecoverPoint Journal and Replica Volumes from a Performance Perspective. This will give you some insight into the workings and designs that […]
EMC RecoverPoint Considerations for Journal sizing – Protection Windows
A very important consideration is the capacity sizing of your RecoverPoint journals which is done on a per Consistency Group basis. This will dicatate the level of failback allowed (Protection Window) on a per CG configuration. The JV must have the correct performance characteristics in order to handle the total write performance of the LUN(s) being protected (next blog). They […]
EMC RecoverPoint Architecture and Basic Concepts
This is my first blog on RecoverPoint; in this initial post I will detail some of the basic concepts and terminology around RecoverPoint and the GEN 5 hardware appliance specification. […]
DavidRing.ie 