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...
View ArticleUpgrading 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...
View ArticleDisk space reporting on sub folders on a VNX File CIFS shared file system
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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleVNX 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...
View ArticleVNX 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...
View ArticleReporting on Celerra / VNX NAS Pool capacity 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...
View ArticleScripting 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...
View ArticleReporting on Clariion / VNX Block Storage Pool capacity with a bash script
I recently added a post about how to report on Celerra & VNX File pool sizes with a bash script. I’ve also been doing that for a long time with our Clariion and VNX block pools so I thought I’d...
View ArticleGartner’s Market Share Analysis for Storage Vendors
Here’s an interesting market share analysis by Gartner that was published a few months ago: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1GUZA31&ct=130703&st=sb. It looks like EMC and...
View ArticleReporting on the Estimated Job Completion Times for FAST VP Data Relocation
Another one of the many daily reports I run reports on the current time remaining on the FAST VP data relocation times for all of our arrays. I also make a single backup copy of the report to show the...
View ArticleArchiving NAZ and NAR files from EMC VNX and Clariion arrays
It can be useful to copy and archive naz and nar files from all arrays to a local server. It’s useful for helping EMC with troubleshooting efforts, general health checks, and researching historical...
View ArticleUseful Brocade FOS CLI Commands
Other CLI Reference Guides: Isilon CLI | EMC ECS CLI | VNX NAS CLI | ViPR Controller CLI NetApp Clustered ONTAP CLI | Data Domain CLI | EMC XTremIO CLI This is a list of useful Brocade CLI...
View ArticleAutomating Config / Zone backups for Brocade Switches
I was looking for an easy way to make backups of our fabric and report the status of the backup on our internal web page. I wrote a script that will remotely run configupload and pull the script config...
View ArticleAlerting on VNX File SP Failover
You may see a Celerra alert description that states “Disk dx has been trespassed” or “Storage Processor is ready to restore”. This would mean that one or more Celerra LUNs aren’t being accessed...
View ArticleChanging the Login banner on a Celerra / VNX File control station
If you have a security requirement to change the login screen on operating systems that are accessible via a terminal session, it’s a farily easy change on a Celerra or VNX File control station due to...
View ArticleTroubleshooting NAS Discovery issues on EMC Ionix Control Center (ECC)
We recently converted two of our existing VNX arrays to unified systems, and I was attempting to add our newly added NAS to Control Center. I went through the normal assisted discovery using the ‘NAS...
View ArticleWhat is EMC’s CAVA / Common Event Enabler?
I was recently asked to do a bit of research on EMC’s CAVA product, as we are looking for AntiVirus solutions for our CIFS based shares. I found very little info with general google searches about...
View ArticleCreating an NFS export from a file system on a Virtual Data Mover (VDM)
When creating a new file system on a virtual data mover, you may have noticed that it can’t be NFS exported from within Unisphere. From the GUI, file systems associated with a VDM do not appear on the...
View ArticleUsing Microsoft’s BranchCache with the Celerra & VNX
We recently moved the data from several of our small offices to being hosted at a central regional data center. In one case, a site that formerly had it’s own Celerra for file access was now accessing...
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