I’m back from the wilderness ! Whenever I see an EMC ETA with the words “Potential Data Unavailability”, I give it immediate attention. Data. Is. Everything. This hot off the press item is titled “ETA 489936: VNX2: A firmware issue may cause certain solid state drives to become faulted, which Continue Reading
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Dell PowerVault MD3660f – Firmware Upgrade Process
The DELL PowerVault MD series Storage Arrays are solid and reliable units. Whilst I don’t use any for what may be considered “Primary” Storage, I use them for many workloads. Backup targets, Image Respositories, Archives, Unstructured data etc. In a 5 RU form factor, it’s a dense package with over Continue Reading
Heads Up ! – EMC VNX1 – Potential Data Unavailability during NDU
First time in a little while, but another EMC TA bulletin arrived in my inbox last week. The inclusion of “potential data unavailability” in the subject got my attention. Full release here This particular bulletin affects only VNX Series 1 Arrays (5300, 5500, 5700 and 7500) that are upgrading to Continue Reading
EMC VNX/VNX2/VMAX: 600GB 15k Drive Increased failure rates – with fix.
This is the second time I have had EMA technical advisories recently regarding issues with 15k SAS disks. The first one I wrote about here. It doesn’t sound quite as serious as the last one (OMG, DATA LOSS), but worthy of a look and fix. Details; and full link here and excerpt Continue Reading
EMC VNX – Installing software enablers – Naviseccli and USM.
“Enablers” in EMC parlance, are small installable files that unlock licensed features on your array. These include FAST, FAST cache, Mirrorview etc. To see which enablers are installed on your Array, you can use naviseccli : naviseccli -h arraysp ndu -list otherwise you can check from Unisphere on the Software Continue Reading
Heads up ! – EMC VNX2 – Potential Data Issue during NDU
This weeks HEADS UP ! and this time for us VNX2 users, courtesy of EMC TA email Seeing “Potential….Data Loss” in any ETA for equipment I admin raises my “Be Alert but not alarmed” counter. Full Release here This only affects upgrades to 05.33.000.5.074 which is the latest (Oct) Block Continue Reading
Heads up ! – EMC VNX2 – Potential Data Issue during NDU
This weeks HEADS UP ! and this time for us VNX2 users, courtesy of EMC TA email Seeing “Potential….Data Loss” in any ETA for equipment I admin raises my “Be Alert but not alarmed” counter. Full Release here This only affects upgrades to 05.33.000.5.074 which is the latest (Oct) Block 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