Tagged: Unity

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Found EMC Unity Bug on STOR2RRD 2.70

I have published a post about STOR2RRD 2.70 recently and I mentioned many times that this tool is my favorite tool for SAN monitoring. So I’ve updated our servers to the new version but there was a bug which STOR2RRD couldn’t retrieve performance data from EMC Unity systems. What’s Problem? STOR2RRD 2.70 can not retrieve performance data from EMC Unity with different firmware versions. You got the below error on error log of your EMC Unity storage systems (Example log file name: /home/lpar2rrd/stor2rrd/logs/error.log-EMC-UNITY-XXX): What’s The Solution? Recently, STOR2RRD 2.70-1 has been released that includes the fix for issue: stor2rrd-2.70-1.tar Further Reading STOR2RRD 2.70 Is Available Now External Links EMC Unity Performance Data Collector Problem on STOR2RRD 2.70

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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 Unity OE 5.0.x make the “mergelogs” function more memory intensive, which causes the process to run closer to the limits of the available memory budget.  If the available memory is exceeded, the SP may reboot. A hotfix is available for this issue if you are running Unity OE 5.0.0.0.5.116.  To acquire this hot-fix, please contact Dell EMC Technical Support or your authorized service vendor and reference KB article 536786.  This knowledge base article also stipulates a work-around available to customers who have service credentials. You can disable the daily triage service within uDoctor by connecting to your system via SSH...

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What’s New in Dell EMC Unity OE 5.0.0.0.5.116

EMC has released Operating Environment for EMC Unity Platform. The new version is a major version and includes some new features. Also some problems have been fixed in this version. EMC has been added support for Dell EMC Unity XT (Newest Unity family’s member). So this release is minimum version and basic requirement for Unity XT. Let’s review the new features which added to this new version. What’s New? New Drive Support With this release, all Unity Hybrid models now support 12 TB nearline SAS drives. Automatic Clean-up of Resolved Health Alerts In previous releases, the Alerts page showed all alerts for the system. With this release, the default view will show only active alerts that have not yet been resolved. Enhanced Data Reduction The data reduction feature has been enhanced to: Add support for NFS and VMFS datastores. Deduplicate uncompressed blocks for new writes or overwrites. Existing data does not change. Support the following models: Dynamic or Traditional pools in Unity 380F, 480F, 680F, and 880F systems Dynamic pools in Unity All-Flash 450F, 550F, and 650F systems All-Flash pools in Unity Hybrid 380, 480, 680, and 880 systems Drive Firmware Update After OE Upgrade After you successfully upgrade the...