ViPR Controller – Ingest V(x)Block UCS Boot Volumes
The following provides guidance in a scenario where your ESXi host boots from SAN, for example this is the standard configuration for Cisco UCS blades included in a Vblock/VxBlock. These […]
VxBlock & Vblock – Core Storage Systems
A frequent question I receive: “What is the primary production storage system included in a VxBlock / Vblock?” Answer: Note: Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) STaaS on V(x)Block leverages DellEMC ViPR […]
Cisco UCS – Determining ESXi FNIC&ENIC via PowerCLI
The following script allows the user to retrieve a listing of Network (ENIC) & Storage (FNIC) firmware drivers installed on Cisco UCS blades at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘Cisco_FNIC_ENIC.ps1‘ script here: […]
Vblock – Advanced Management Pod Second Generation (AMP-2)
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 […]
EMC VMAX – SMI-S Configuration & Discovery
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 […]
The Vblock vCake
Created by Cliff Cahill @CliffCahill In conjunction with the announcement of the ‘Vblock 740’ @VCE’s latest addition to the Vblock range Cliff kindly put his creative and baking skills to […]
EMC XtremIO – Welcome to Vblock
Vblock Specialized System for Extreme Applications This Vblock as the name suggests is VCE’s solution targeted at Extreme Applications such as VDI and High performance database applications. Using the XtremIO […]
EMC UIM/P – Symmetrix VMAX Discovery (Verify SYMAPI Certificates)
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 […]
EMC VMAX – Thin Pool Creation and Considerations
Considerations in planning to create Thin Pools: • The underlying structure of Thin Pools are made up of whats called ‘Data Devices’ (TDAT’s). These devices provide the actual physical storage […]
EMC Symmetrix VMAX – Masking Views for VMware ESX Boot & Shared Cluster VMFS Volumes
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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