Removing “EMC-SNAS” comment on Celerra CIFS shares

If 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

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 [...]

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 [...]

EMC NetWorker Virtualization Map Stops Working With vCenter 4.1 Upgrade

Ive come across the same problem at a number of customer sites recently, so I thought this might be something worth posting about. The problem typically comes about as customers who’ve traditionally had vCenter running on a 32bit Operating System, now move to a x64bit Operating System to support vCenter 4.1 which enforces x64 bit architecture. Now the actual [...]

Avamar backup fails after Virtual Machine restore

Here’s the scenario, Using the Avamar management console, Add a Virtual Machine to the “Default Virtual Machine Group” Perform a Backup of the Virtual Machine Delete Virtual Machine using VI Client Perform a Virtual Machine Recovery back into Virtual Infrastructure Power Virtual Machine On Perform a Backup of the recovered Virtual Machine I manually initiated [...]

VMware Site Recovery Manager with CLARIION Gotcha

Im working on a nice little project at the moment which involves a couple of CX120′s with vSphere  4.1 and VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1 After installing Site Recovery Manager,  the CLARIION storage replication adapter and EMC solutions enabler I went on to configure the storage arrays in SRM and received the following error ” Error occurred [...]

vSphere 4.0 Update 1 with Software iSCSI and 2 Paths on dVSwitch (Update)

One of the more popular posts I’ve done over the last few months has been how to configure a standard vSwitch to allow multiple paths to the storage using the software iSCSI initiator in vSphere 4.0 The only problem here was this could only be done with a standard vSwitch and trying to configure on a virtual [...]

vSphere 4.0 Update 1 with Software iSCSI and 2 Paths on dVSwitch

By far one of the more popular posts Ive done over the last few months has been this post where I showed how the iSCSI initiator in vSphere 4 could be configured to provide multiple paths to each LUN and in turn the path selection policy “Round Robin” could be configured to load balance across [...]

Celerra iSCSI Targets visible to all Initiators

Something I noticed last week while working on a customers site was multiple iSCSI initiators logged into iSCSI targets which I had not granted access. I’ll fire up my lab to demonstrate what I saw and how to change the behavior. Here on my Celerra simulator I have three iSCSI Targets configured for VMware, Exchange [...]