Category Archives: EMC VNX

When will we trespass with VNX ALUA?

In the early days a Clariion was a real active/passive array, meaning that one Storage Processor owns a LUN and the only way to reach the LUN is by using a path via de owning SP. When all paths to the … Continue reading

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Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN

Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading

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EMC VNX and vSphere 5: The cool Hypervisor and Storage combination

Virtual Computing Environment At the annual virtualization seminar organized by Open Line I presented about VCE, which stands for Virtual Computing Environment. Besides this, it also represents the three vendors (VMware, Cisco and EMC) that are combined in the vBlock setup for … Continue reading

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