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Storage servers by Dell EMC

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Shell script provisioning of luns on EMC Clariion?

Is there a robust way of scripting (Unix shell) lun provisioning for an EMC Clariion? Navicli doesn't look very reliable, its output is not easy to parse (and just plain weird), and it does not look like it returns useful error codes. I want…
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How to register server HBAs to an EMC Clariion storage system

I have just attached a Solaris box (an old Enterprise 420R) to a Clariion storage array via an Emulex HBA but the Navisphere software is only seeing the system via a hexadecimal reference ID not by the agent's hostname. When trying to assign…
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using EMC branded disk array with Dell/EMC branded CX3-20 head unit

Are there any problems or gotchas with using an EMC branded DAE3P with a Dell/EMC branded Clariion SAN? Obviously getting support for the array would be problematic, but other than that is there anything I should know?
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What is that big orange knob on EMC Unity 600 series storage processors?

There is a big orange knob on the storage processors, for example, see the following picture (which show storages equipped with two storage processors, therefore we talk about these, in total 4 orange knobs): I can't find any document describing…
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EMC BIOS default password

I have an EMC server that hasn't been used for a while and I am trying to repurpose it. I am having trouble getting into the BIOS as it seems to be locked behind a password by default. Hardware: EMC server, not sure what type, I can't see any…
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RedHat: MultipathPackage Compatibility

I have an old RedHat5 server I can't upgrade the OS and new san XtremeI/O storage EMC recommended to install device-mapper-multipath 0.4.9-72 as a native multipath package.But the only available package on Redhat 5 is device-mapper-multipath…
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Changing IP address of a host in Navisphere 6 (EMC array)

We have a EMC CX4-120 array and manage it using Navisphere 6 web interface. Some time in the past we have registered all the HBA of 5 different hosts. Now, we need to change the ip addresses of these hosts. Is there a way of changing the IP…
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hp proliant not recognizing emc sas drives

We have lots of 2.5'' SAS drives from a decomissioned EMC AX4 array (Seagate Savvio 10k.3), and would like to install on HP Proliant 360pG7. Proliant does not detect those drives, is there something we are missing or is this hopeless? Let me…
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Is it possible to dynamically resize emc lun which is using powerpath

*I have the below mount which is coming from EMC storage and uses powerpath drivers .Now Storage has resized this to 1.5 TB , is it possible to resize this in host without any downtime . [root@xxxxxxx emcpowera]# powermt display…
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EMC PowerPath or MultiPath?

We are using a SAN for our datastorage. I recently got the SAN connected to a CentOS 5.3 server by using the EMC PowerPath software along with the Navisphere Agent running on CentOS. However I have now recieved the final production server and need…
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Does a dead LUN path cause an increase in I/O times on the remaining LUN path(s)?

We use an EMC SAN appliance. There are 2 'paths' from the cluster to the SAN. Today we experienced that one of the LUN paths was 'dead' (as reported in the windows event logs). Presumably the multipath LUN was down to a single path. At this time…
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Replicate EMC LUN to AWS. Is it possible?

Is it possible to replicate a LUN from our EMC VNX5300 to Amazon Web Services? This would be for a disaster recovery scenario. I've talked to AWS and they said to talk to EMC. I've talked to several EMC employees one of them being an engineer. None…
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EMC CLARiiON - merge raid groups, retain LUN's

Not sure this is possible, but... Let's say you have two raid groups, each striped across 6 disks. Group 1 has 2 LUNs, Group 2 has two LUNs - is it possible to merge the raid groups (i.e. gain striping across 12 disks) and retain your 4 LUN's…
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EMC PowerPath Support Matrix

I know this is a stupid question, but I've found nothing online. Does anyone know where EMC has hidden the support matrix documentation so that I know what version of PowerPath is supported with which version of FLARE?
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Link rate between EMC DAE and HBA

I have a EMC DAE (KTN-STL4) drive cage directly connected to a HP Proliant server using a QLogic QLE2560 HBA. I'm using copper cable between the HBA card and the DAE. On the controller card in the DAE there is a label that states "4Gb". I'm guessing…
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