EMCGrab Analysis As A Service…Why does it make sense? Does host remediation sound familiar? How about for 1000’s of hosts running on multi-petabyte storage? Many of you who are in the storage field and work on projects related to tech refresh, migration and consolidation projects or on performance issues related troubleshooting, will be well familiar… 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 »
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 »
Performance Analysis of EMC Symmetrix DMX Continuing the discussion on doing performance analysis with simple one page views, here is a sample of what can be done with an EMC Symmetrix DMX. This views is based on the performance data that is collected by EMC Control Center (ECC) with Performance Manager (WorkLoad Analyzer – WLA) tool.… Read More »