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Storage servers by Dell EMC

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SAN design: File & Block level access?

The short question: can I share file and block level traffic on the same SAN? Perhaps more importantly, should I? The gory details are below... I'm hopefully putting the finishing touches on a new SAN design, and our new planned storage (EMC…
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Disk-to-tape using Networker and Data Domain

My previous question covered disk-to-disk backup to reduce our backup window, and now I also need to take the disk backup and move it to tape. Is this something I can do with Networker and deduplicated backup? I know that an ideal solution would be…
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Disk-to-disk backup to same storage array?

We're looking to get a new SAN, and so we're re-examining our storage, network and backup issues. Our plan is to get an EMC VNXe 3100 with SAS drives for production data, then buy an expansion shelf and populate half of that with SATA (6 TB raw)…
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Linux not picking up new partition correctly on emc pseudo device

We have a database server running oracle rac. We were recently running out of space on the main LUN that it is attached to. I created a new 100GB LUN and concatenated this onto the existing LUN creating a new MetaLUN. After some messing I managed to…
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Upgrading antiquated EMC AX100 SAN Storage

I have an old, old, old EMC AX100 RAID array. It's not being used for anything important, but I would like to use it for testing and lab work. One of the problems is that the OS itself is stored across the first few drives, and they're original…
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NDMP NAS for HP EVA4400 SAN

We use EMC Celerra filer for our EMC array and it supports NDMP.n remote site we have EVA4400 HP SAN and it seems that our only option for NAS is Windows Storage Option. What if we want to use NDMP?Surely HP should have something that match Celerra?
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Filer for HP EVA 4400 Array

We are planning moving some of our infrastructure to the dataceneter.Most of our hardware is EMC/Dell and datacenter uses HP. One of the components we use is EMC Celerra NS20 Filer connected to the EMC CX3-10 storage array.This is the primary…
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EMC NS-480 Celerra - Way to verify which iSCSI initiators are currently connected to a LUN?

In the NS-480 or a given Celerra NAS, is there a way to verify which iSCSI initiators are actually CURRENTLY CONNECTED to a given LUN? I can see how to look at the LUN MASKs in Unisphere and see which initiators (in this case ESX hosts) have the…
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No LUNs visible on ESXi 5.5 using Brocade 825 connected to EMC VNX 5300

We've just bought a new Dell PowerEdge R620 to replace the oldest of our 3 hosts in our vSphere cluster. The existing hosts are connected to our EMC VNX 5300 SAN using gigabit ethernet which is a pretty horrible bottleneck, so I bought this server…
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SAN newbie: Using a server like an ISCSI gateway for a purely FC SAN device

I am very new to SANs and have inherited an old EMC CX300 to play with. The CX300 is purely FC, but I'd like to experiment with ISCSI as well without having to purchase an expensive ISCSI gateway device. I was thinking I could do something like the…
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How do I disconnect users from a file stored on a NAS?

We recently migrated our file servers from a Windows file server to an EMC VNXe NAS device. Previously, when a user needed into a critical file that someone else had open and the situation warranted, I'd log into the file server and disconnect any…
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VMWare VMs to Data Domain storage via EMC Networker backup: Do I need a storage node?

I've got several VMs (Windows Server 2003-2008 R2, application servers, Exchange, SQL, small file servers) residing on ESXi 4.1 hosts. We recently purchased a Data Domain system allowing us to backup our data and have it deduplicated, compressed,…
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EMC Celerra and Access-based Enumeration

I have a few CIFS shares for Windows on our Celerra, and I've run the EMCABE tool (in enable mode) on one of our CIFS virtual servers. When I check if ABE is enabled using the same tool, it comes back working, however in practice, I can still see…
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Linux Kernel Modules Refuses to Load

I have a server running RHEL 5.5 with EMC PowerPath installed. Due to the security requirement, I had to upgrade the kernel to a newer version. Unfortunately, I was not aware of the impact of the upgrade on EMC PowerPath. After the upgrade, the…
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Symmetrix gatekeepers on Solaris 10

I have some Solaris machines that are connected to EMC Symmetrix for SAN storage. Apparently the Symm has a gatekeeper device that is used with the symmetrix CLI. We don't need the CLI, but I have these gatekeeper devices that constantly fill…
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