Celerra and Clariion Login Gotcha with Unisphere

In the last couple of months I’ve deployed two Celerra NS120′s and a Celerra VG2 gateway for which I experienced the same problem preventing anyone from being to login to Unisphere post install. The symptoms with the NS120′s was quite different to that of the gateway, the NS120′s gave a clear blatant certificate error which let you know the certificate was not valid [...]

Whats all this Unified Storage HOOEY about ?

I was talking to a friend last week who asked me two provocative yet valid questions, and I thought It would be worth posting about because at the end of our conversation he had opened his mind to a few concepts he had not considered. Question #1   “Whats all this Unified Storage Hooey about?”  Probably a good place to [...]

Celerra DART 6.0 with Clariion FLARE 30 GOTCHA

I’ve been deploying Celerra’s for a while now and with technology changing as fast as it does, you really need to be across the applied practice, best practice and NAS Matrix documents found in PowerLink to validate your storage design. For the last couple of years the majority of the Celerra’s Ive deployed have been shipped with DART 5.6 code [...]

Locked out of Navisphere, oh Cr@p Now What ?

I recently needed to log into a CLARIION for which the admin password was unknown. I did a search on PowerLink and found an article which was fairly vague so I thought id quickly post showing the steps needed to get this sorted. You will need the service cable which come with your CLARIION, it’s a serial to micro DB9 [...]