Anyone who has worked at length with EMC Clariion or VNX would be familiar with the good old NAR files. These are the important little files where statistics about array performance are saved/archived, so you can them open them in Analyzer and review the massive amount of performance metrics and Continue Reading
Naviseccli
Heads up !! – EMC VNX1 Users – Potential Outage
My ever reliable EMC TAM emailed me recently to give me a heads up regarding a potential issue with one of our VNX arrays. This particular array was overdue for an upgrade anyway, but has special change control requirements. It affects VNX1 series arrays that have particular 300GB & 600GB Continue Reading
EMC VNX: LUN migration & provisioning using NAVISECCLI
Being able to migrate LUNs between Storage Pools or Raid Groups is a useful feature that has been around for a long time. It’s non-disruptive so you can do it anytime, but be careful with the rate. It’s A bit like SVMotion for array side storage ! (even though it Continue Reading
EMC VNX hotspare activation & rebuild monitoring with naviseccli
If you’ve ever wondered if you can monitor hotspare disk activities from naviseccli, the answer is yes…. ! As expected you receive your automated email alerts when a system fault occurs, in this case a disk failure (and hopefully a dial-home event was triggered via ESRS)about a disk failure; Using Continue Reading
EMC – Quick Naviseccli commands – Pt1
Whilst most of the time I like Unisphere, sometimes it’s nice to be able to get info about your Array quickly and without having to fight with Java. Naviseccli is great for just that purpose. It’s fast, efficient and you get info you need quickly. Most of these commands will Continue Reading