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Reporting 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 (http://emcsan.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/reporting-on-celerravnx-nas-pool-sizes-with-a-bash-script/)....
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Gartner’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...
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Reporting 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...
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Archiving 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...
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Useful Brocade FOS CLI Commands
Below is a list of useful Brocade CLI commands that I keep at my desk for reference. They’re divided up into categories for Zoning, Show, Port, Time/Date, License, Banner, Password, SNMP, User Config,...
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Automating 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...
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Alerting on Celerra / 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...
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Changing 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...
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Troubleshooting 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...
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What 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...
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Creating 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...
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Using 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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What is VPLEX?
We are looking at implementing a storage virtualization device and I started doing a bit of research on EMC’s product offering. Below is a summary of some of the information I’ve gathered, including a...
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Comparing Dot Hill and EMC Auto Tiering
The problem with auto tiering in general is that a large amount of hot I/Os is “hot” only for a brief moment in time. Workloads are not uniform across an entire data set constantly and if the data...
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Easy reporting on data domain using the autosupport log
I was looking for an easy (and free) way to do some daily reporting on our data domain hardware. I was most interested in reporting on disk space, but decided to gather some other data as well. The...
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Scripting automatic reports for Isilon from the CLI
We recently set up a virtual demo of an Isilon system on our network as we are evaluating Isilon for a possible purchase. You can obtain a virtual node that runs on ESX from your local EMC Isilon...
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Celerra / VNX File replication job creation errors when selecting destination
I recently had an issue with setting up a new Celerra file system replication job. As soon as I selected the destination system I received the three errors below. 1) Query VDMs All. Cannot access any...
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Gathering performance data on a virtual windows server
When troubleshooting a potential storage related performance problem on a virtual windows server, it’s a bit more difficult to anaylze a because many virtual hosts share the same LUN for a datastore in...
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How to create a clone of a file system on a Celerra or VNX using nas_copy
Below are the steps used to create a clone of a file system on a Celerra or VNX. Cloning can be done to the same data mover, a different data mover on the same array, or to a completely different...
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How to reserve a Celerra / VNX NAS share for a single file type or group of...
Several years ago I posted on Celerra/VNX NAS file extension filtering (see here), but didn’t write about file system reservations for specific file types, which is also possible. You can set up NAS...
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