Linux Deduplication and Compression
Cost of storage is the biggest piece of IT budget in any company (Of course not EMC, HPE or other like them 😀 ) and the storage spaces is eating by databases, other data...
Category: Data Storage
Data storage is a recording medium is a physical material that holds information.
Some Lower-End Unity Models Could Experience Single or Dual SP Reboots When Running Unity OE 5.0
This is warning and workaround about EMC Unity OE 5.0 on some Unity systems with fewer memory capacity. Let’s see what happened? The lower-end Unity systems, in particular the Unity 300 and 300F, contain...
Stor2rrd 2.60 Will be Released Mid of September 2019
Stor2rrd is my favorite storage monitoring tool, it’s free and has active community. New version (2.60) with some new features will be announced mid of September. Let’s review new features and enhancements in Stor2rrd...
What’s Dell EMC Unity XT Storage?
Simplify the path to IT transformation and unlock the full potential of your data capital with the new Dell EMC Unity XT
storage arrays that feature up to 2X more IOPS, more memory, and up to 50% more drives than previous Dell EMC
Unity models. These All-Flash and Hybrid storage systems with dual-active controller architecture and enterprise-class
features are designed for performance, optimized for efficiency with up to 5:1 data reduction, and built to simplify your
multi-cloud journey.
How to Find EMC Unity FC Port WWN
Knowing devices WWN is necessary to define aliases during zone creation in SAN environments on SAN switches, you need to storage FC ports WWN as targets in each zone. So where you can find device’s FC ports information?
How to Remove Unwanted Initiators in EMC Unity
EMC Unity family is successor to EMC VNX family and EMC Unity is more powerful than VNX series. In addition of technology changes, EMC Unity using different UI and different commands. Also there is...
New Update for Popular Open-Source Monitoring Tool, Stor2rrd
Stor2rrd is an open-source monitoring and reporting tool for SAN and LAN devices. It supports most vendors products such as EMC, Brocade, HPE and others.
EMC Unity Operating Environment 4.5.1.0.5.001
EMC has released another OE for EMC Unity family both hybrid and all flash models. The new OE has no new feature but this OE image has important fix.
Dell EMC Unity Family Version 4.5.0.0.5.096
Dell EMC has been released new version of Unity Operating Environment (OE) for Dell EMC Unity family. The new version (4.5.0.0.5.096) is included new features and fixes to improve Unity products stability, performance and deliver some solutions as new features. This new release is a minor release, so there is no fundamental changes.
How to Remove Unverified System in VNX Domain
VNX Storage arrays can be added to a domain for centralization logging and management for multiple storage arrays. Also Unisphere Central can be added to a VNX domain.
Sometimes, storage administrator makes mistake about adding or removing VNX storage arrays from VNX domain. As an example, administrator has to remove a VNX for send to repairing but forget removing storage array from domain. Another example, when there is multiple domains with multiple range of IP addresses, may be administrator add array to domain wrongly and after that, change IP and add to another domain.
In these situations, domains will contain some systems as unverified system, the unverified systems should verify again and otherwise should be removed.
DELL EMC Unity OE Version 4.4.1.1539309879
This release has no new feature but there is lot of fixes for problems in the previous versions. DELL EMC recommends that updating Unity OE to this version to preventing impact of the below problems in production environments.
[Update]: EMC Unity Storage Systems – Drive and OE Compatibility Matrix (Feb 2018)
EMC Unity Drive and OE Compatibility Matrix EMC Unity storage systems supporting the below disk drives: Unity SAS Flash 2 Drives – For use in FAST Cache, FAST VP or all-Flash-pools Unity SAS Flash...
[Update]: EMC VNX2 Storage Systems – Drive and OE Compatibility Matrix (Feb 2018)
EMC VNX2 Drive and OE Compatibility Matrix The document will help you to know that the minimum compatibility between VNX storage system OE and disk drives. The supported part numbers and minimum version of...
