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What’s new in FLARE 32?
We recently installed a new VNX5700 at the end of July and EMC was on-site to install it the day after the general release of FLARE 32. We had planned our pool configuration around this release, so the...
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SAN Performance Metrics
I often get requests from application owners to review performance stats. I thought I’d give a quick overview of some of the things I look at, what the myriad of performance metrics in Navisphere...
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Automating Storage Processor % Utilization alerts with EMC Performance Manager
I was tasked with coming up with a way to get email alerts whenever our SP utilization breaks a certain threshold. Since none of the monitoring tools that we own will do that right now, I had to come...
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Adding a Celerra to a Clariion storage domain from the CLI
If you’re having trouble joining your Celerra to the storage domain from Unisphere, there is an EMC service Workaround for Joining it from the Navisphere CLI. When attempting it from Unisphere, it...
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Frequent 0×622 and 0×606 errors in the SP Event Logs
During some routine checking of the SP Event logs on our NS-40 I was noticing a large number of alerts. Every few seconds I was seeing these three alerts pop in: 0x60a Internal Information Only. A...
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Collecting info on active shares, clients, protocols, and authentication on...
I had a comment in one of my Celerra posts asking for more specific info on listing and counting shares, clients, protocol and authentication information, as well as virus scan information. I knew the...
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Close requests fail on data mover when using Riverbed Steelhead appliance
We recently had a problem with one of our corporate applications having file close requests fail, resulting in 200,000+ open files on our production data mover. This was causing numerous issues within...
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Powerpath Install / Upgrade Issues
I recently had several issues when attempting to upgrade a Windows 2008 server from Powerpath v5.3 to v5.5 SP1. I uninstalled 5.3 using the windows utility, rebooted, then reinstalled v5.5 SP1. After...
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Relocating Celerra Checkpoints
On our NS-960 Celerra we have multiple storage pools defined and one of them that is specifically defined for checkpoint storage. Out Of the 100 or so file systems that we run a checkpoint schedule on,...
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Magic Quadrant for Storage Vendors
I was reading over the Gartner report today that dives into specifics on the strengths and weaknesses of the big players in the storage market. The original Gartner article can be viewed here:...
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First day at EMC World 2013
It’s been a great first day at EMC World 2013 so far. I’ve been to three breakout sessions, two of which were very informative and useful. I focused my day today on learning more about best practices...
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Brocade Switch Type Matrix
I recently performed an inventory of all of our Brocade switches and stumbled upon this list of switch types that allows you to identify the Brocade model number. Simply go to...
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What’s new in EMC Control Center Update Bundle 14 (UB14)?
I’m in the process right now of upgrading our ECC installation from UB12 to UB14. I’ll be making another post soon with the steps I took to complete the upgrade. Below is a list of all the new...
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Upgrading EMC Ionix Control Center from Update Bundle 12 (UB12) to Update...
Below are the steps I just took to upgrade our ECC environment from UB12 to UB14. There are quite a few steps and EMC has this process documented very well. Every install file and patch has it’s own...
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Disk space reporting on sub folders on a Celerra/VNX File CIFS shared file...
I recently had a comment on a different post asking how to report on the size of multiple folders on a single file system, so I thought I’d share the method I use to create reports and alerts on the...
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Using the database query option on Celerra & VNX File commands
EMC has added a hidden query option on some of the nas commands that allows you to directly query the NAS database. I’ve tested the ‘-query’ option n the nas_fs, nas_server, nas_slice and nas_disk...
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VNX vs. XIV
I recently started researching and learning more about IBM’s XIV as an alternative to EMC’s VNX. We already have many VNX’s installed and I’m a very happy EMC customer, but checking out EMC’s...
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VNX vs. V7000
Like my previous post about the XIV, I did a little bit of research on how the IBM V7000 compares as an alternative to EMC’s VNX series (which I use now). It’s only a 240 disk array but allows for 4...
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Reporting on Celerra/VNX NAS Pool sizes with a bash script
I recently created a script that I run on all of our celerras and VNX’s that reports on NAS pool size. The output from each array is then converted to HTML and combined on a single intranet page to...
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Scripting Alias and Zone creation for Brocade Switches
Whenever a new array is added in our environment we usually have to add hundreds and hundreds of new zones to our core brocade fabric. It’s a very tedious job so I started investigating ways to script...
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