Virtualization & Storage
You may no longer have use for a specific TDEV volume in a Storage Pool and want to free this space to create a new volume or expand an existing volume. These are the steps involved to delete the TDEV and reclaim this space in the Pool. This example details how to delete a single TDEV volume in a Storage […]
During a UIM discovery of an ‘EMC VMAX’ you may encounter the following error: UIM/P – VMAX DISCOVERY ERROR MESSAGE: ================================================================= ================================================================= Action completed successfully… 10.X.X.X: found 1 reachable IP […]
Each Engine has two Directors with each Director containing two Back-End Fibre Channel I/O Modules (Labeled MOD0 & MOD1). These modules (also known as DA’s – Disk Adapters) provide Fibre […]
This post provides instructions and information around the Symmetrix Auto Meta feature. The Auto Meta feature is a configurable option during the Bin File configuration or the setting can be […]
What is Vaulting Symmetrix VMAX systems are configured with vault drives on back-end Fibre Channel loops. Vaulting is the mechanism used to protect your VMAX data when: 1. powering down […]
In this example I will show how to complete the zoning for a two Host ESX Cluster (ESX01 & ESX02), using a dual Fabric connecting to a EMC VMAX 10K […]
This script is a result of having to create quite a large number of dedicated Masking views for VMware ESX 5.x server boot volumes and Masking Views for shared vmfs datastore clusters. In this example I will create two dedicated ESX server MV’s and one Cluster Masking View consisting of the two ESX Hosts sharing a VMFS datastore. Each VMware […]
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