Archive for November, 2009

Myself and colleague Preston de Guise recently performed beta testing for the latest build of EMC NetWorker, I can only speak for my self but I was quite surprised by the  lack of regressed bugs I found and overall it’s looking very good. I was also hoping  NetWorker 7.6 was going to show that product development teams [...]

When creating iSCSI LUNS on a Celerra I typically have all file systems created before hand and then use the command line to create iSCSI LUNS in each file system. A couple of weeks ago I decided for some reason to use the wizard “Create new iSCSI LUN” and noticed something that was not present in the [...]

I was doing some work on a couple of EMC Celerra’s this week and found an issue which I expect is a bug in the DART code, I managed to work around it using the command line, so I thought I would post incase anyone else comes across this same issue. Initially I had fully provisioned [...]

Vmware vCenter Linked Mode enables a common inventory view across multiple instances of vCenter Server. Over the last year Ive deployed a number of VI3 systems with Site Recovery Manager in the mix and one of the things that always annoyed me was having to manage each site separately. Now with vCenter Linked Mode both sites can be [...]