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How to find the Drive types in vmax
Hi,
i know we have Flash , FC and SATA and they are grouped in disk groups . whats the CMD i can run in SYMCLI or in SMC to findout the Drive types.
thanks
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Hi,
i know we have Flash , FC and SATA and they are grouped in disk groups . whats the CMD i can run in SYMCLI or in SMC to findout the Drive types.
thanks
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codyhosterman
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March 19th, 2013 16:00
Hmm it should, does yours not have what mine does?
For each listed diskgroup all of the disks are as shown in the start of each group. So all of the drives in this disk group 1 are 3.5" 15K RPM fibre channel drives. Or are you looking for more specific information? If so you can add -v to the command and it will give you pretty much everything you need to know about each disk. I would pipe that printout to a file though as it will be a lot of information.
C:\Users\Administrator>symdisk list -by_diskgroup -sid 53 |more
Symmetrix ID : 000194901253
Disks Selected : 102
Disk Group : 1
Disk Group Name : DISK_GROUP_001
Disk Location : Internal
Technology : FC
Speed (RPM) : 15000
Form Factor : 3.5
Capacity(MB)
Ident Symb Int TID Vendor Type Hypr Total Free Actual
------ ---- --- --- ---------- ---------- ---- ---------- ---------- ----------
DF-7A 07A C 0 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 384937 558281
DF-7A 07A C E HITACHI VCFE060 0 0 0 558281
DF-7A 07A D 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-8A 08A C 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-8A 08A D 0 HITACHI VCFE060 14 558281 386672 558281
DF-7B 07B C 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-7B 07B D 0 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 384937 558281
DF-8B 08B C 0 HITACHI VCFE060 14 558281 386672 558281
DF-8B 08B C E HITACHI VCFE060 0 0 0 558281
DF-8B 08B D 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-7C 07C C 0 HITACHI VCFE060 14 558281 386672 558281
DF-7C 07C D 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-8C 08C C 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-8C 08C D 0 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 384937 558281
DF-7D 07D C 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
DF-7D 07D D 0 HITACHI VCFE060 14 558281 386672 558281
DF-8D 08D C 0 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 384937 558281
DF-8D 08D D 1 HITACHI VCFE060 15 558281 371814 558281
---------- ---------- ----------
Total 8932490 6060940 10049051
Raj_la
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March 19th, 2013 14:00
thanks Cody,
Question: isn't those diskgroups manually created ones ? [ sorry i am new to EMC storage , we are hitachi for years ]
like there is one diskgroup in current vmax called srdf_journal so i am sure these are manually created ones so
i am looking for some sort of cmd to find out how many DAEs are installed in current vmax and what kind of disk/size
in those DAEs..
thanks in advance
dynamox
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March 19th, 2013 14:00
Does not display technology, some of it you can guess (STEC for example) but others are not so intuitive
codyhosterman
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March 19th, 2013 14:00
symdisk list -by_diskgroup -sid XXX
is probably the easiest way
codyhosterman
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March 19th, 2013 15:00
Being new is nothing to apologize for! That's to be congratulated
That command will show you all of the disks on your system that are configured for use (which should be every disk on your system). With the -by_diskgroup flag it will sort them into their associated disk groups which every physical disk must be in. It will show the technology, RPM (if applicable) and form factor for that group which all disks in that group conform to. DAEs can have mixes of drive types/sizes etc in them. DAEs are physical groupings of disks that identify their physical location, and disk groups are logical groupings of like physical disks regardless to DAE location. To find out DAE disk information is a bit more work because the DAE grouping isnt something that is directly used by external applications sort disks.
Raj_la
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March 19th, 2013 16:00
Ohh my bad , u know what it showing me sorry i overlooked the top tabs all i am looking is drive portions part.
i got it . one last question rather opening new post. how to confirm my VMAX is either 10k/20k/40k because we are in evaluation part of implementing RP so just going through pre-requisites of model vs enginuity things..
u guys are like 80X speed in response to users not like other vendor storage forums.
Raj_la
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March 19th, 2013 16:00
with flag -by_diskgroup or without it doesn't showing me the drive type [ yes it showing me size ] so basically i am looking for drive types.. appreciate your info cody
dynamox
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March 19th, 2013 18:00
Thanks Cody, i need to check my eye sight ..it was there all along.
Avinash V
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March 20th, 2013 03:00
how to confirm my VMAX is either 10k/20k/40k because we are in evaluation part of implementing RP so just going through pre-requisites of model vs enginuity things..
# symcfg list
codyhosterman
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March 20th, 2013 08:00
No worries, it is easy to miss--especially if you have a large VMAX with big diskgroups, the diskrgroup headers will fly by quickly and get lost in the drive counts if you dont pipe it to more.
You can identify the model number with the command "symcfg list"
codyhosterman
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March 20th, 2013 09:00
Yeah essentially. VMAX-1 is the same hardware and software as the 20K, just the old name.
A brief history of this if you want some explanation: Prior to the 5876 release we had two models, the VMAX-1 and the VMAXe. When 5876 came out, we released what would technically be the VMAX-2 but was named the 40K and the VMAX-1 would now be called the 20K and the VMAXe became the 10K to make the family names consistent. That being said we didn't want to rename the model names of existing customer frames, so all existing frames remained with their original model name even when upgraded to 5876 as seen in Solutions Enabler. All newly shipped frames with 5876 would receive the new naming convention and be listed in Solutions Enabler as the 10K, 20K or 40K. There has been a hardware refresh on the 10K so the current one is no longer identical to the previous VMAXe, but the VMAX-1 and the 20K are identical in all but the model name.
Raj_la
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March 20th, 2013 09:00
got it..thank you cody u have a good day
Raj_la
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March 20th, 2013 09:00
it says vmax-1 does it mean vmax 20k ??
S Y M M E T R I X
Mcode Cache Num Phys Num Symm
SymmID Attachment Model Version Size (MB) Devices Devices
xxxxxxxxxx Local VMAX-1 xxxx 1xxxx xx xxxx
codyhosterman
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March 20th, 2013 11:00
You're welcome! Thanks you too.
Anonymous
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September 11th, 2014 02:00
Hello,
How can I list the volumes, that are present in a particular disk group, using SYMCLI? For example, if I have volumes 03FA-0400 in disk_group 1 (FC, 15k rpm), how can I filter this out (with Volume Label). I tried using symdisk -sid xxx list -by_diskgroup . It doesnt show me the volume Label.