We all have too many passwords to manage and despite our best intentions and practices, sometimes they get lost. This happened to me recently. When verifying some access before a code upgrade, I found the admin password I expected to work for VPLEX ( cli or Unisphere) did. not. work. Continue Reading
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EMC debuts the VNXe1600
I rarely post articles with a marketing slant, but have allowed myself an exception here to ease back into writing after a short hiatus, and this looks like a product I could find some good use cases for 🙂 EMC have recently released a new member to the VNX/e family, Continue Reading
EMC RecoverPoint- Standalone VM Recovery
RecoverPoint is one of my favourite products. It’s unique, reliable and has helped me out of trouble on more than one occasion. Whilst most VM admins associate it with SRM and thus Site/LUN/Datastore recovery, it can also fill in an often overlooked gap in data protection. Pre and Post backup Continue Reading
EMC RecoverPoint- Scripting bulk changes to Consistency Groups
It’s always nice to be able to make bulk changes to multiple devices. Most RecoverPoint environments will have a collection of Consistency Groups that could be as much as 128. To change a common configuration for all of them would take waaaay too long for my liking. A common option Continue Reading
EMC VNX/MCx Storage Pool Expansion – NavisecCLI or Unisphere
Storage Pool Expansion on EMC VNX/MCx arrays is a simple, straightforward task that can be done to increase capacity, performance or both. It is an online operation (NDU) but I always try to initiate it when load on an array is non-peak. The process is just like a Fast VP Continue Reading
EMC VNX/MCx Storage Pool Expansion – NavisecCLI or Unisphere
Storage Pool Expansion on EMC VNX/MCx arrays is a simple, straightforward task that can be done to increase capacity, performance or both. It is an online operation (NDU) but I always try to initiate it when load on an array is non-peak. The process is just like a Fast VP Continue Reading
Quick tip – EMC: Certificate issues after NavisecCLI upgrade
Quick tip….. I recently upgraded naviseccli to version 7.33.6.0.96 This is a really quick update so on my dual screen setup, I kicked off the installer in the left monitor while I worked on other tasks on the right. Cool, it’s just Next, next, next right ? Finished in a few Continue Reading
EMC- March Product Update roundup: VNX, VNX2, NaviSECCLI, RecoverPoint, USM
It’s been a busy month for software updates @ EMC. If you subscribe to the various product bulletins, you’d have seen this info, otherwise, READ on ! VNX1Â https://support.emc.com/products/12781_VNX1-Series Updated Navisphere CLI (naviseccli), Unisphere Service Manager (USM), Unisphere Host Agent VNX2Â https://support.emc.com/products/36656_VNX2-Series Updated Navisphere CLI (naviseccli), Unisphere Service Manager (USM), Unisphere Host Continue Reading
EMC – VNX/2 -Accurately show Storage Pool RAID Drive Counts with Naviseccli
A frequent topic on various EMC forums is how to layout Storage Pools according to EMC best practice, typically regarding about what Drive count to use in the RAID config. The best practice documents* is the source of truth for this when creating pools, but what about when you expand Continue Reading
EMC MCx FAST Cache : Where’d my Dirty Pages go?
The VNX2/MCx Array release by EMC in 2013 highlighted the whole “multi-core everything” (MCx) software upgrade to make best use of the available CPU cores in the Sandy Bridge Xeon E5 Processors. This allowed for greater parallelism of tasks and big performance improvements across Data services and functions. I’m not Continue Reading