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Celerra Disk Provisioning Wizard incorrectly believes there are not enough...
I recently had an issue attempting to extend our production NAS file pool on our NS-960. We had just added Six new 2TB SATA disks to the array, and when I launched the Disk Provisioning Wizard it gave...
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Using the server_stats command on Celerra / VNX File
Server_stats is a CLI based real time performance monitoring tool from EMC for the Celerra and VNX file. This post is meant to give a quick overview of the server_stats command with some samples on...
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Dynamic allocation pool limit has been reached
We were having issues with our backup jobs failing on CIFS share backups using Symantec Netbackup. The jobs died with a “status 24″, which means it was losing communicaiton with the source. Our...
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The steps for NFS exporting a file system on a VDM
I made a blog post back in January 2014 about creating an NFS export on a virtual data mover but I didn’t give much detail on the commands you need to use to actually do it. As I pointed out back then,...
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Matching LUNs and UIDs when presenting VPLEX LUNs to Unix hosts
Our naming convention for LUNs includes the pool ID, LUN number, server name, filesystem/drive letter, last four digits of the array’s serial number, and size (in GB). Having all of this information in...
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VPLEX Health Check
This is a brief post to share the CLI commands and sample output for a quick VPLEX health check. Our VPLEX had a dial home event and below are the commands that EMC ran to verify that it was healthy....
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VPLEX initiator paths dropped
We recently ran into an SP bug check on one of our VNX arrays and after it came back up several of the initiator paths to the VPLEX did not come back up. We were also seeing IO timeouts. This is a...
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Rescan Storage System command on Celerra results in conflict:storageID-devID...
I was attempting to extend our main production NAS file pool on our NS-960 and ran into an issue. I had recently freed up 8 SATA disks from a block pool and was attempting to re-use them and extend a...
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EMC World 2015
I’m at EMC World in Las Vegas this week and it’s been fantastic so far. I’m excited about the new 40TB XtremIO X-bricks and how we might leverage that for our largest and most important 80TB oracle...
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Scripting an alert for checking the availability of individual CIFS server...
It was recently asked to come up with a method to alert on the availability of specific CIFS file shares in our environment. This was due to a recent issue we had on our VNX with our data mover...
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Default Passwords
Here is a collection of default passwords for EMC, HP, Cisco, VMware, TrendMicro and IBM hardware & software. EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) Axeda Policy Manager Server: Username: admin Password:...
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VPLEX Unisphere Login hung at “Retrieving Meta-Volume Information”
I recently had an issue where I was unable to log in to the Unisphere GUI on the VPLEX, it would hang with the message “Retrieving Meta-Volume Information” after progressing about 30% on the progress...
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Web interface disabled on brocade switch
I ran into an issue where one of our brocade switches was inaccessible via the web browser. The error below was displayed when connecting to the IP: Interface disabled This Interface (10.2.2.23) has...
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NetApp FAS Zero disk procedure
We recently had a need to zero out and reinstall a NetApp FAS 8080 in order to move it from test to production. Below are the steps to zero out the disks in the array. Steps: SSH to each nodes...
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Pure Storage data reduction report
I had a request to publish a daily report that outlines our data reduction numbers for each LUN on our production Pure storage arrays. I wrote a script that will log in to the Pure CLI and issue the...
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Block and File VNX Password Change Procedure
Below is the procedure for changing the passwords on a Unified VNX on both the block and file sides. Please note that Changing the Global VNX administrator password can cause communication failures...
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Isilon CLI Command Reference
Below is a command reference for almost all of the CLI commands available in the Isilon OneFS CLI. The basic commands are outlined and in many cases multiple samples of using the commands are...
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Using isi_vol_copy_vnx for VNX to Isilon data migration
For most data migrations from VNX to Isilon EMC recommends that you use the OneFS migration tool isi_vol_copy_vnx. It can often be more efficient than host-based tools (such as EMCopy and Robocopy)...
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VNX NAS Files incorrectly report as Locked for Editing
When opening a shared Microsoft Office file, you may see the error message “File in Use, file_name is locked for editing by user_name“, when in fact no other user is currently using the file. We had...
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A Primer on Object Storage
I recently took a new job in the Enterprise storage group at a large company, and as part of my new responsibilities I will be implementing, configuring, and managing our object storage. We will be...
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