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September 24th, 2015 15:00

DMX4 Migration project

what would be the best way to gather the following data from a DMX4?

1 all hosts attached to the array

2 all volumes allocated to those hosts

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September 28th, 2015 09:00

EMC maintains a web portal called E-Lab Advisor.  From this site, you can upload data about your servers and storage, then produce detailed data collection reports about the servers, storage and SAN switch fabric.

For your DMX, you can upload your most recent SYMAPI log file.  This will contain a great of information about the DMX itself.  It will contain some information about your hosts as well.  For more detailed inspect, EMC recommends running their EMC Grab utility on each connected host.  This tool will collect multipath driver information (PowerPath, MPIO, NMP, etc.) HBA and firmware and so on.  It can be tedious to run on many, many hosts, but the end result (very detailed reports) is often worth the time investment.

To get started, visit https://elabadvisor.emc.com/. You can upload your SYMAPI log file and see the basic report collected from the DMX.

Let us know if that helps!

Karl

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September 28th, 2015 21:00

If you get an EMCgrab / EMCreports (from support.emc.com, bottom right of home page)  output from at least the SAN management server, that will give you array config information as well as masking info for which hosts have access to what volumes on what ports.

The output is in the form of a .GZ file, so unzip it and you will find a trove of information in there. For your two specific questions, you will want the masking information so look up the files names symmask* or symaccess* in the SE directory.

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September 29th, 2015 06:00

outputs from symmask list logins and then symmaskdb list capacity -host   (if WWN were given a name)

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