Document RAIDGROUP/LUN layout

Question

Hi All,

We currently run 8 CX3-80 SANs and we would like to document our RAIDGROUP/LUN layout over the DAE's in some graphical way...

Looking back in the history of this forum, I notice several users have the same question and a couple of solutions come up:

1) CAP2 tool (Apparently can analyse SPCollects and make an overview)
2) EMC Control Center with StorageScope
3) VisualSRM
4) ReportClariion

As it seems, most (If not all) of those tools are not available for download for end-users

Does anybody have a suggestion or a tool that could solve our documentation problem?

Our environment is forever changing, and keeping track of all the changes and what is available and what not is quite hard...

Hope you guys might have some sugggestions

With kind regards,

Fred

jimkunysz · Answer

I am under the assumption that CAP is available for customers. I use it regularly and do a Save to .xls format.It's a great tool for all CX arrays and specifically for those arrays that are not CX3's.

RRR · Answer

I would say CAP2 is the way to go, but that one is indeed for partners only.

In the pre-CAP days I simply had a spreadsheet which I changed every time there was a change, but I must admit, that if 1 person forget to document anything, tghe whole sheet is more or less useless.

About half a year ago there was a post where sombody posted a URL with a self written tool which documents Clariions. I tried to locate this thread for you, but I couldn't find it. It was a combination of batchfiles and a spreadsheet. I couldn't get it to work, bit I'm pretty sure it's a minor thing which needs to be fixed in Excel 2007 to get it working.... if only you can find the thread.

jimkunysz · Answer

from our CE but I thought I saw it available via Powerlink.HEAT is also available:https://servicetools.emc.com/heat.phpto me CAP is indispensable and me having it makes my CE's life that much easier.

Colboup · Answer

There is a spreadsheet produced by Jay J. Wersits of EMC called clariion designer that lets you describe your environment and the layout, which can be manually updated later as your array changes.
I don't know if its generally available to customers though, but its not commercially sensitve so it should be.
The other option is to dust off your scripting and do some navicli getall's (or a subset to get the parameters you want) from your arrays and process the output.
We tend to pre-configure our cx's so we know the layout and have that scripted and placed in an excel spreadsheet which we maintain.
cheers
Phill

RRR · Answer

Where did you get the tool ? Did your CE provided it to you ? AFAIK a customer cannot download it anywhere.

Freddy2003 · Answer

I actually went back over 111 pages of history in this forum and only found references to the tools I mentioned...I guess it must have been longer ago

Freddy2003 · Answer

Hi Jimbo,I've opened a case with EMC to see if I can get it from them...We'll see Fred

riker82 · Answer

We've implemented ECC + Perfomance mananger + storage scope...It's a very big tool, very complex but very useful....but be carefull to the EMC support matrix!

riker82 · Answer

did you mean a report like this?http://cid-ca6c182ec61353ae.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Pubblica/test.xls

Freddy2003 · Answer

Hi Riker82,Thanks for your answer...Can you tell me however if ECC with StorageScope indeed makes the report we need?We simply need a graphical view of each DAE with 15 disks, showing the RAIDGROUPS in a certain colour and the LUNs/Freespace within that RAIDGROUPDoes it do that? I'd be very interested in buying ECC if it can do that.I've looked around for screenshots that show if it can do that, but I can find them

jimkunysz · Answer

I also run ECC and it's corresponding Performance Manager. WLA/Performance Manager is great. I also started using Symmetrix Management Console (SMC) and coupled with ECC, I get all the data I need on our DMX. ECC is primarily for managing our DMX and reporting for us. I snapped in all our EMC arrays but use native tools to manage them.
ie: I use Navisphere to manage our Clariions and Fabric Manager to manage our Cisco SAN.

I ran Visual SRM against our Celerra environment but honestly, found it diffficult to generate the reports I needed. Storage Scope is nice but we don't deploy the ECC Agents too often as it's too much admin management for the benefit we receive - thus we don't get enough data to make is worthwhile.

Freddy2003 · Answer

Hi Riker,Interesting, and close to what I mean...We used to have a tool that produced pictures like the one I linked below...http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n428/Fredster2008/LUNLayout.jpgThe advantage is that you can see how much free space a RAIDGROUP still has, and which LUNs are present...Is that report from ECC 6.0??? As I understand 6.1 will soon be released...Fred

RRR · Answer

Nope.... it was not that long ago..... Maybe in the end of 2007, but I'm pretty certain it was in 2008.

dynamox · Answer

that looks nice ..how did you generate this ?

RRR · Answer

CAP does exactly that. Isn't there a way you can ask your CE to help you with this ? I see you're based in Tilburg, very near to where I am (globally speaking). So call Bull or even EMC directly to come to some sort of agreement, because of what I read in your posts... really: CAP is what you need.

CLARiiON

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