
EMC XtremIO – VPLEX BackEnd Connectivity Considerations
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 […]
Virtualization & Storage
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 […]
Known ViPR&VPLEX Storage Provisioning Issue: The following error may be encountered while provision a shared VPLEX distributed volume to an ESXi Cluster using ViPR v2.x – 2.3: The reason why […]
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 […]
This post will cover the Masking and Zoning scripts for a VG when using Cisco MDS fabric switches. This post will not cover the creation or rules around the Control […]
The steps below detail the process of clearing all zoning configurations on an MDS switch. Including: fcaliases, zonesets and zones. If you wish to remove individual zones from a zoneset then please see post here: How To Remove Zones from an Active Zoneset Note: Ensure this is a standalone switch; if it is connected to other switches in the fabric […]
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 […]
In this post, I’ll detail some useful commands that can be leveraged to rename Cisco zoning components: FCALIAS ZONE ZONESET RENAME ALIAS FOR HOSTS (vsan id of 10): switch(config)# fcalias rename old-AliasName new-AliasName vsan 10 RENAME ZONES: switch(config)# zone rename old-ZoneName new-ZoneName vsan 10 RENAME ZONESETS: switch(config)# zoneset rename old-ZoneSetName new-ZoneSetName vsan 10 Once complete Activate and Commit these changes: […]