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EMCWorld 2013: Without skew, no flash
When you have a VNX in your environment, you want to use the most innovative features and disks that are available. People tend to say “I want flash”, but you can never put your entire environment on flash, meaning you … Continue reading
EMCWorld 2013: Introducing new Cisco MDS stuff
Due to different nice things in Vegas combined with EMC Elect stuff, I am not able to attend as much as sessions that I had in my mind, but today I attended the session “Cisco/EMC Multiprotocol Fibre Channel SAN’s for … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, EMC
Tagged 16, 16gb, 9200, 9250, 9250i, 9500, 9700, 9710, airflow, b2b, brocade, chassis, Cisco, Computing, converged, convergence, credits, director, EMC, Fabric, FC, fcip, FCoE, ficon, iscsi, ivr, LAN, mds, multiprotocol, nx, nx-os, os, Port, ports, SAN, Series, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, vblock, VNX, vsan, vspex
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Welcome @ EMC World 2013
Today I arrived at Las Vegas for attending the annual EMC World. Together with my collegues and EMC Elect co-members @50mu and @JonKlaus we’ll meet up with other EMC Elect members to socialize, share experience and share knowledge. Besides enjoying … Continue reading
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
Posted in EMC VNX, VMware
Tagged 4, 64000, ALUA, assignment, asymmetric, clariion, cmi, failover, I/O, interface, IOPS, logical, messaging, mode, mpio, multipath, multipathing, non, non-optimal, optimal, owner, owning, path, powerpath, processor, sp, Storage, trespass, trespassing, Unit, VNX
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EMC Elect status accomplished: Thanks everyone!
Posted in EMC
Tagged 2013, backup, blog, elect, EMC, emcelect, emcelect2013, emcforum, forum, presentation, recovery, Storage, VNX
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Powershell and Snapview scripting
Currently we are providing automated disaster recovery environments for different customers. Part of this implementation is to provide the customer with an anual disaster recovery test. We are using a combination of VMware vSphere and EMC VNX / Clariion storage … Continue reading
Posted in EMC, Powershell
Tagged activate, addusersecurity, array, clariion, command, consistent, copy, disk, EMC, Group, host, id, invoke-expression, line, LUN, mirrorview, naviseccli, navisphere, powershell, ps1, sc, scripting, snap, snapshot, snapshotname, snapview, startsession, Storage, VMware, VNX
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Navisphere Analyzer: Automating NAZ decrypt and NAR merge
When you do not have a Navisphere Analyzer license but you want to make a performance analysis, it can be a lot of work. I created two powershell scripts that will automate the decrypting of the NAZ files and merging … Continue reading
Posted in Navisphere Analyzer, Powershell
Tagged analyzer, archive, clariion, cx, decrypt, encrypt, invoke-expression, merge, nar, naviseccli, navisphere, naz, nazdecrypt, open, powerlink, powershell, ps1, rename-item, retrieve, script, scripting, test-path, unisphere, VNX
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Bulk add zones on Cisco MDS SAN using Powershell
When adding many zones to an existing zoneset, it can be a large amount of work when using the “single initiator – single target” principle. About two years ago, my collegue Jon Klaus http://goo.gl/tliyn created a very cool VBS script … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco MDS, Powershell, Scripting
Tagged 9000, 9100, 9124, 9134, 9148, 9500, brocade, channel, Cisco, clariion, config, EMC, end, ESX, ESXi, Fabric, fcalias, fibre, front, initiator, inter, ivr, mds, member, microsoft, name, Port, powershell, ps, ps1, routing, SAN, single, sist, Switch, switching, target, terminal, vbs, VMware, VNX, vsan, vSphere, zone, zoning
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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
Posted in Cisco UCS, EMC VNX, SAN, Storage, vSphere 5
Tagged 0, 1, 4, 4.1, 5, add, ALUA, auto, boot, Cisco, clariion, Computing, connectivity, Datastore, deploy, disk.enablenavireg, EMC, end, environment, ESX, esx5, ESXi, esxi5, Fabric, fabrics, from, front, HBA, host, initiator, navisphere, policy, Port, primary, Profile, profiles, pxe, SAN, secondary, Service, single, Stateless, status, Storage, target, UCS, Unified, unisphere, vcenter, vHBA, VMFS, vNIC, VNX, vnx5300, vSphere, WWN, wwpn, zone, zoning
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Cisco UCS and the vSphere awareness
In my previous post I outlined the ideal combination between EMC’s VNX storage platform and vSphere 5, without even address the real vSphere VNX awareness using the Virtual Storage Integrator. To complete the VCE circle, I want to focus this … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged Blade, Bladecenter, C7000, Cisco, Computing, CPU, Datacenter, Dimm, Distributed, EMC, enclosure, ESX, Extender, Fabric, FC, FCoE, FLOGI, Group, HBA, HP, Interconnect, IP, LAN, Link, MAC, Machine, Memory, Mezzanine, NIC, npiv, npv, Port, Profile, Rack, RAM, SAN, Series, Server, Service, Socket, Stateless, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, Unit, VCE, vHBA, VIC, Virtual, VM, vMotion, VMware, VN, VN-link, vNIC, VNX, vSphere, vSwitch, WWN
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