How to find the Drive types in vmax

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

symdisk list -by_diskgroup -sid XXX

is probably the easiest way

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.

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.

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

Thanks Cody, i need to check my eye sight ..it was there all along.

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

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"

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.

got it..thank you cody u have a good day

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

You're welcome! Thanks you too.

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.