How To Complete Alerts in Hitachi Storage Navigator (VSP G Series)
There was some uncompleted alerts that we did fix the issues on our storage system but alerts are still remains.
Category: Data Storage
Dell EMC Unity OE 5.0.2.0.5.009
EMC has released new upgrade file for Unity family (5.0.2.0.5.009) but I couldn’t find Release Notes link till now. Seems, the upgrade file is contains some minor fixes and security fixes as well. (Now I know that some issues were major!) The file size is as big as previous releases, but as I know, the below security issues have been fixed on this release. (Thanks to “derWolle“, I don’t know him but he has read the post and sent me the link of release notes: https://support.emc.com/docu97010_Dell-EMC-Unity-Family-5.0.2.0.5.009-Release-Notes.pdf?language=en_US Seems, there is new feature and important fixes: Initially Configuring your Unity syste: When...
Dell EMC Unity OE 5.0.1.0.5.011
Yesterday, EMC has released new Operating Environment (OE) for Dell EMC Unity family. The new release includes lot of fixes and especially security vulnerability (CVE-2018-19636 – CVE-2018-19637 – CVE-2018-19638 – CVE-2018-19639 – CVE-2018-19640). There is just one new feature for Unity VSA, a new variant of the UnityVSA called the Dell EMC Unity Cloud Edition is now available, which is optimized for the VMC (VMware Cloud) on AWS. Also the UnityVSA Deployment Utility will only be available for Windows 64-bit environments with releases 5.0.1 and later. Here is the fixed issues in Unity OE 5.0.1.0.5.011: External Links EMC Downloads
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 files and backup files as well. Lot of those data file not be used once generated!. I have serious issue with these types of data and especially log files that one of dark data types. I can’t stop generating those data and the related teams are always crying about free space on their servers. They want just Linux servers (Seems, they don’t know Windows has NFS...
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 less physical memory than the higher-end Unity models. The lower available system memory makes them more vulnerable to experience an SP reboot brought about by the “mergelogs” component of NGTRiiAGE which is run by uDoctor on SRS enabled arrays. It is also run periodically on non-SRS enabled arrays. If your Unity system is SRS enabled, “mergelogs” will run at least once per day. Changes intro-duced in...
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 2.60 . What’s New in Stor2rrd 2.60? Stor2rrd 2.60 will support two new storage devices from Lenovo and Hitachi products: Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) Lenovo ThinkSystem DE Series (DE2000/4000/6000) Stor2rrd does support more than 40 storage systems in new version. Enhancements in Stor2rrd 2.60 Stor2rrd 2.60 is including the below enhancements: Storage access management is done through UI only ACL: introduced read-only role, members can see...
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 big differences between some operations on VNX and Unity such as present LUN to host/hosts. If you want to remove initiators from host/hosts, follow the post to find best way to do it. Remove Unwanted Initiators Same as VNX, there is two options to register initiators as a host or to the host: Automatically via agent Manual We could remove unwanted initiators easily from storage system...
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.
