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# of ISCSI Targets vs # of targets defined differ
I'm seeing 12 targets being shown even though I've only configured 8 targets.
View ArticleRe: EMC VNXe vs Equallogic vs Compellent
I work for an EMC reseller and have deployed several VNXe arrays. The devices have been nice upgrades for many of our clients. There are a bunch of great documents you should check out should you...
View ArticleRe: Datastore Naming Convention
can use something like TYPE DATASTORE# LUN# ie. Prod_01_001 Dev_05_005
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Multipathing & Migration Question (NMP, Powerpath)
Situation:1. Currentesxi 4 hosts connected via nmp through Falconstor to Hitachi backend 2. Migrationesxi 5 boot from san hosts connected via powerpath to emc vmax Question: Best Practice to migrate...
View ArticleRe: possible disk perf - how to diagnose?
If your disks are sub 8ms latencies, you don't have a disk performance issue.
View ArticleRe: Datastore Naming Convention
I always used someting nearly identical (although we didn't replicate, so no -R). We did: TYPE-ARRAYID-LUNID So, for example: DMX-0595-0ABC
View ArticleRe: Multipathing & Migration Question (NMP, Powerpath)
PowerPath/VE does not write any additional signatures to the disks. FalconStor is not supported by PP/VE, but will simply be ignored by the PP/VE driver and will be accessed via NMP instead. In your...
View ArticleRe: Extra HDDVsphere 5.1
i was wondering if it possible to have the extra mounted HDD configured as iSCSI with IP adress to connect to as share?No, ESXi doesn't work as an iSCSI target. What you could do though is to create a...
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Re: Multipathing & Migration Question (NMP, Powerpath)
1. thank you for your response. 2. yes but will powerpath see the hitachi on the backend and try to become the driver for that? obviously that would not be good in our case since falconstor provides...
View ArticleRe: Datastore Naming Convention
Thanks for the input. So the idea of the array ID being that I would be able to give the storage team quick identification of what LUN is associated with my datastore. Would that cause any issues if...
View ArticleRe: Multipathing & Migration Question (NMP, Powerpath)
2) No, the VMware host would only see the falconstor, because thats all its zoned to. 3) Its not mine, it was deployed for a customer (I am an EMC employee, so you probably don't care about my review...
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Re: Datastore Naming Convention
That is why we did it. And yes, it could cause issue if you are replicating, because the name wouldbe duplicated on the other side In that case, you could do arrayIDpair like this: DMX-0595_0445-T1-R...
View ArticleDeep Security Antimalware best practices and Excluding files Questions
Dears I have some Questions and Requests for Deep Security Antimalware 1) Best Practices2) How to exclude files and if well known files treated as malware files while they are safe 4) Any free sessions...
View ArticleScan doesn't locate iSCSI datastore
Under all three ESXi host in the iSCSI Software Adapter settings, I can see the SAN iSCSI storage under the Static Discovery. But when I try to add a datastore its not finding them. I have...
View ArticleEMC Clarrion AX4 Array (ISCSI Multipathing Subnets)
Just wanted to get quick clarification from folks with setting up an EMC Clarrion array. The array has two storage processors, each processor has two 1GB interfaces. Should the config look like: SPA1...
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Shared SAS backplane, is this supported?
I recently spent a few days exploring MS Hyper-V 2012 (and rejecting it as a viable solution for our company)The excersise did introduce me to a storage configuration I was not previously aware of:...
View ArticleSAS Tape drive (HP Ultrium 920 SAS) on a HP SC44ge (LSI 1044 based) controller
Hello,I have problem on backup I have backup server windows server 2008 R2 standard on Vmware 4.1 and I use Backup exec 2010 R2 and Use HP autoloader (1x8 G2 AUTOLOADER) connected via SAS cable HP...
View ArticleVOMA reports inconsistencies - what next ?
What is the recommended procedure after VMFS problems ? Assume you see a VMFS-volume with harmless I/O errors, with serious AIOMgr type 3 I/O errors or with VOMA reporting inconsistencies.Is that...
View ArticleRe: EMC Clarrion AX4 Array (ISCSI Multipathing Subnets)
It´s a while ago now I setup a Clarrion with iSCSI, but I´m pretty sure it was: SPA1 - SUBNET1SPA2 - SUBNET2 SPB1 - SUBNET1SPB2 - SUBNET2 If I remember correct there have been also a good documentation...
View ArticleRe: EMC Clarrion AX4 Array (ISCSI Multipathing Subnets)
Thanks for the feedback, and your corret, found a great emc KB article: https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-12813
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