Its been far too long since I posted ! I thought it was time to get back into it and what better way to do so than posting to say that ill be attending EMC World in Las Vagas this year. Anyone know of any blogger events or areas like you see at VMware World [...]
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EMC SRA for VNX with VDM Replication error fix
Posted: February 10, 2012 in EMC, Site Recovery Manager, VMwareJust a quick post on a problem I had this week at a customer site running VMware Site Recovery Manager 5 with EMC Celerra and VNX mix. I actually had everything up and running for a couple of weeks before I logged in again to notice in the “Array Manager” section, both arrays showed status [...]
When it comes to zoning, everyone has their own way to do things, but I thought id share a couple of the things I do to make my life easier down the road, and who knows maybe yours too. I’m going to mainly concentrate on the zoning of EMC arrays here, but to go broader [...]
MirrorView /S with CLARIION Flare 30 Gotcha
Posted: June 24, 2011 in Celerra, CLARIION, EMC, EMC MirrorViewI’ve been working on a storage project over the last few months and I ran into a problem with MirrorView /S which turned out to be a bug in the CLARIION flare code. I thought id write a quick post about it incase anyone comes across the same problem. The Problem : The symptoms I saw were as [...]
When it comes to VMware integration, two of my favorite pieces of software now support the new EMC VNX/VNXe product range. The first link below is to one of Chad’s latest posts covering the latest release of the VMware vCenter plugin. The second link goes to PowerLink where you can read more on the new features [...]
Removing “EMC-SNAS” comment on Celerra CIFS shares
Posted: March 12, 2011 in Celerra, EMC, Tips and TricksIf you’ve ever configured CIFS shares on your Celerra before (VSA included) you’ll know when mapping to the shares using Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003 you get the default CIFS server comment added in windows explorer. The comment will display as “EMC-SNAS:T<Dart Version>” shown below as “EMC-SNAS:T6.0.36.4“ To stop this from happening you can typically handle this two ways. [...]
Celerra and Clariion Login Gotcha with Unisphere
Posted: February 28, 2011 in Celerra, EMC, Tips and TricksIn 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 [...]
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
Posted: February 17, 2011 in Celerra, EMC, Tips and TricksI’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 [...]
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 [...]
