The Perfonics™ Calculator – Storage Consolidation Modeling Simulation If you work with large enterprises, especially with projects that involve tech-refreshes, data center migrations or storage optimizations, it is probably very difficult if not impossible to find Storage consolidation and modeling tools that can provide a view into the current storage infrastructure and help you create a… Read More »
Vmax Commands The following are the Vmax commands that are specifically using for Vmax Operations. Please refer Searchable ‘symcli commands’ for full set of Solution Enabler commands. symaccess Specifically using for Vmax Allocation to do various operations on Masking view and related Groups under Vmax Commands. symaccess -sid 1234 list List all Initiator, Port and… Read More »
Virtual Provisioning in Vmax Below are the steps involved to setup Virtual Provisioning. Here I am assuming that there is an existing storage group called MyStorageGroup and we need to allocate the new thin device to that SG. 1. Create a Thin Pool create pool ThinPool1 type =thin; 2. Create DATA Devices Create 4 x… Read More »
Return Code for Symcli Return code for Symcli handling for Windows and UNIX. The following lists the possible status or error codes that can be returned by the various Symcli commands on a Windows or UNIX platform and useful for troubleshooting. 0 CLI_C_SUCCESS CLI — Call completed successfully. 1 CLI_C_FAIL CLI — Call failed. 2… Read More »
Symaccess Command Summary of the most commonly used symaccess commands with examples. symaccess -sid 1313 list – List all Initiator, Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1313 symaccess -sid 1313 list -v – List all Initiator, Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1313 along with related Masking Views symaccess -sid 1313 list -type… Read More »