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Cisco Nexus 5K – Unified Port Conversion
Nexus 5000 series UP switches have the option of either enabling individual ports as Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports. One of the strict guidelines is to begin enabling ethernet ports at the first port...
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EMC VMAX³ – Front-End FC WWPN’s & Zoning Considerations
Please begin by downloading the attached PDF here. As you can see this is a fully compiled listing of all 256 possible FC WWPN’s available on a VMAX³ system. A 100K system can cater for a maximum of 64...
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EMC XtremIO – VMware VMFS LUN Expansion
In this post I will detail how to increase an XtremIO volume and extend the associated VMware VMFS volume. As can be seen form the XtremIO management interface the existing size of this XtremIO volume...
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CISCO UCS – Rebooting Fabric Interconnect(s)
Begin by connecting to the cluster IP over SSH and checking which FI is Primary/Subordinate: FI-A# show cluster state A: UP, PRIMARY B: UP, SUBORDINATE Note: show cluster extended-state will provide...
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VMware PowerCLI – MS Windows Guest VM ‘IP&DNS’ Modification
The following script allows the user to modify an MS Windows Guest VM IP and DNS configuration. You may download the ‘IP&DNS_Modification.ps1‘ script HERE (Remove the .doc extension). Begin by...
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EMC VNX – List of Useful NAS Commands
Verify NAS Services are running: Login to the Control Station as ‘nasadmin’ and issue the cmd /nas/sbin/getreason from the CS console. The reason code output should be as follows (see detailed list of...
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EMC VNX – RecoverPoint Enabler Installation
Installing the RecoverPoint Enabler using NAVICLI: Check the list of all ENABLERS currently installed on the VNX: naviseccli -h SP_IP ndu -list A series of rule checks need to be performed in advance...
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EMC VNXe 3200 – MCx Drive Mobility
Related post: ‘EMC VNX – MCx Hot Sparing Considerations’ MCx code has brought many new features including the revolutionary ‘Multicore Raid’ which includes the ‘Drive Mobility’ feature. Drive Mobility...
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EMC VNX – Batch Enabler Installation (By Software Suite)
————————————————————————————– Reference:: VNX® Command Line Interface Reference for Block: The naviseccli ndu command -install function transfers one or more SP driver packages from a user-accessible...
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VCE VISION – VMAX Config Notes (EMC SMI-S)
The following are some configuration notes for configuring the ‘VMAX Management HOST’ for communication with ‘VCE Vision’ via SMI-S. Before proceeding ensure you have presented and configured the ‘VMAX...
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EMC VMAX3 – CLI Cheat Sheet
Guest post by the VMAX Guru – Paul Martin @rawstorage VMAX3 CLI Cheat Sheet Disclaimer, this is not a comprehensive how to, just a toe in the ocean of VMAX3, there is always more and there is always...
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VCE VISION – VNX Config Notes (EMC SMI-S)
The following are some configuration notes for configuring the ‘VNX Storage Processors’ for communication with ‘VCE Vision’ via SMI-S. Before proceeding ensure you have the both VNX Storage Processor...
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EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To VMware MGMT VM
VMAX3: Creating the RDM Volumes and Associated Masking View This is an example Masking View for a two node ESXi cluster on which the VMAX management virtual machine shall reside: 1. Create a Port Group...
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vSphere – Migrating A VM To A New VMFS Datastore (CLI: VMKFSTOOLS)
You may encounter a scenario where a vCenter server is not part of a solution and SVMotion is not an option to migrate a VM from one VMFS datastore to another. In this case you may use the vSphere VI...
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EMC VNX – Registering RecoverPoint Initiators
The VNX will have been previously zoned to the RPAs at this stage. For example purposes the config below will have the RPA1-port-3 Zoned to the VNX SP-A&B Port 4 on Fabric-A and RPA1-port-1 Zoned...
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EMC XtremIO – 4.0 Maximums
The following details the maximum values common to all four X-Brick models and the maximums applicable to each specific X-Brick model. As of XtremIO Verison 4.0 there are four types of X-Brick model to...
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EMC VNXe – Shutdown Procedure
Shutdown via UNISPHERE using the Service Account Please read all notes provided in the ‘More Information..’ section highlighted in the above image before proceeding with shutdown. Shutdown process as...
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Vblock – Advanced Management Pod Second Generation (AMP-2)
Vblock Advanced Management Pod (AMP) The AMP consists of the management components of a Vblock system, these management components are self-Contained and provide Out-of-Band Management for the entire...
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EMC VMAX – Fully Pre-allocate TDEV
By Fully Pre-allocating a TDEV all the tracks associated with the device are reserved, this may be useful for mission critical apps or avoiding any write miss penalties. Example SYMCLI: Single TDEV...
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Cisco Nexus 3064 – Configuring Jumbo Frames
The default MTU size on a Nexus 3064 switch is 1500 bytes, the following details how to reconfigure the switch for a system wide MTU value of 9216(jumbo). ——————————————————————————– Note: The Cisco...
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