My ever reliable EMC TAM emailed me recently to give me a heads up regarding a potential issue with one of our VNX arrays. This particular array was overdue for an upgrade anyway, but has special change control requirements. It affects VNX1 series arrays that have particular 300GB & 600GB Continue Reading
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Shellshock BASH exploit — Vulnerable ?
** Edit, 9th October — Many EMC products now have patches available ** VNX Series1 VNX Series2 XtremIO VNXe –Get busy ! On the 24th September, a series of CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposure) incidents were Continue Reading
EMC VNX: LUN migration & provisioning using NAVISECCLI
Being able to migrate LUNs between Storage Pools or Raid Groups is a useful feature that has been around for a long time. It’s non-disruptive so you can do it anytime, but be careful with the rate. It’s A bit like SVMotion for array side storage ! (even though it Continue Reading
EMC VNX 0x704a: DAE is faulted. Servers may have lost access to disk drives in this enclosure.
Title sounds a bit nasty eh ?! I was confronted with this earlier this week, which was only noticed after logging into Unisphere to do some provisioning tasks. At this point, I had received no alerts (array side) nor any host issues. More alarmingly, no notifications. Oops. A quick Continue Reading
Heads up !! – EMC VNX/VNXe users, keep your Array software up to date
You’ve paid for your maintenance right ? Take advantage of it and keep up to date with your platform versions. Open an SR and schedule EMC to do an upgrade via RCM. They have a whole team who do array upgrades all day everyday. Keep them busy. Why ? Keep Continue Reading
EMC VNX hotspare activation & rebuild monitoring with naviseccli
If you’ve ever wondered if you can monitor hotspare disk activities from naviseccli, the answer is yes…. ! As expected you receive your automated email alerts when a system fault occurs, in this case a disk failure (and hopefully a dial-home event was triggered via ESRS)about a disk failure; Using Continue Reading