There is a sizing tool available that will help you decide what type of nodes and the quantity that you should consider for your environment. In general when designing and sizing a new Isilon Cluster storage array the following points needs to be taken into consideration: How many Active users: will help with sizing for number [...]
PowerPath Migration Enabler is a server based block level migration tool, used to migrate data between arrays as a transparent migration with no client impact. There are several ways to migrate data from one VMAX to another: Using a replication tool like SRDF Using file based migration tool like emcopy or rsync Using server based [...]
As you already noticed when working with VPLEX is that VPLEX masks the back-end array LUN ID and present to the client with different internal VPLEX UIDS. The reason for that is because VPLEX technically virtualize the back-end array(s). So with VPLEX you are not attached to a specific array, and VPLEX have the [...]
If you have VPLEX Local group and you want to change it to VPLEX distributed group Select the cluster that you present LUNs to and navigate to Virtualized Storage ==> Consistency Group Select Local CG and take the Virtual Volumes out of the consistency group Navigate to Virtual Volumes Select the Volume you just took out [...]
VPLEX adds a virtual storage layer between the SAN storage and the Server, normally SAN zoning will be between the SAN and the server. In VPLEX case the zoning is between the VPLEX and the Array from the back-end and the VPLEX and the Server from the front-end. In details the SAN zoning steps are [...]
Very Secure FTP daemon (vsftp) is an FTP server with a General Public Licensed (GPL), this server is being used for UNIX systems, including Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, and other Linux distributions. Part1: Installing and configuring the service to only allow anonymous access: # yum install vsftpd # service vsftpd start [...]
When connecting a new server to VPLEX, the server initiators must be registered so that we can use them later with storage view. The following exercise will demonstrate how to register the server initiators in VPLEX for future use with storage view: Login to Unishpere for VPLEX Select the cluster that you [...]
The following are some useful Isilon OneFS commands to administer and manage the Storage Cluster. Note: OneFS commands sometimes get changed with the OneFS revision, the following command are tested on OneFS 7.0.2.4 isi stat command: isi stat example output: Isilon OneFS v7.0.2.4 nas001-1# isi stat Cluster Name: nas001 Cluster Health: [ OK ] Cluster [...]
Red Hat Kickstart is used to prepare an answer file to perform unattended operating system installation and configuration. It is mainly used at large sites or sites that require easy installation and demand consistent installation or configuration on all PC's or servers. To install kickstart: # yum install system-config-kickstart To create a kickstart configuration: # [...]
The following are some useful Brocade Fabric commands to administer and manage the Storage Fabric. Backup Switch Initial Configuration: configupload Protocol: scp IP address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX username: backupuserid Path/Filename: /pathofbackupfiles/servernameDDMMYY_AorB.txt Section: all password: Check if WWN is presented to the switch: synopsis: nodefind WWN|PID|ALIAS example: nodefind 10:00:00:90:fa:51:3a:ee expected result if found: expected results if not found: [...]
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