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Hello folks, i have a question about removing old wwn's from my vmax. i run the symaccess -sid #### -dirport 7e:0 -login remove -wwn ##### and it removes the old wwn's. my question is there a way to add one back if it was accidentally removed?

Hello, We have a new VMAX3 and we are learning snapvx. Everything has been working great until we try cascading snaps. So here is the scenario. Source LUN = 2D Target1 LUN= 2F Target2 LUN = 30 We took a snap of 2D and linked that snap to 2F. All the data is there as expected Next we change

FE director utilization is going high till 65% for 4 adaptors. When I drill down each port on these frontend directors, Port 0 has 174 devices and Port 1 has 17 devices listed. Is the high utilization because of this imbalance, if yes how can reduce it.

Hi was on my way on learning Solution enabler installation guide,on my way of learning i found something called Solution enabler with SMI-S installable.I am now in need to what is that solution enable can provide that SMI-S cannot provide,Please guide me .

hello customer asked me to monitor vmax clone when start and finish , do you have any inline command to check it and also symmcli for customer ? thanks regards giacomo

Hi everybody! I am looking for a way to display/check hardware failures using symcli commands for VMAX/DMX arrays? Is that possible? - Why? - Because I am working as a resident on a customer that do not want to implement any other "call home" method than analogic phone/modem line to report ha

symdisk -sid 00001 list -by_diskgroup command lists different capacities - Total, Free and Actual. What is the difference between 'Actual' and 'Total' Capacity. 'Actual' capacity seems almost always greater than 'Total' capacity.

Folks, I understand the recommended hyper value per physical disk is 8 [Performance reasons?]. Any compelling reasons behind this number? I have also seen people prefer to use 8-way or 16-way meta devices in VMAX. I knew we have 8 DAs and 8 DAEs per Engine. Do they have anything in common? C

Folks, We need to add a new VMAX40K to a new management server [UNIX] in our environment. I have drafted steps that I need to follow, but I would like to have your expertise here. 1. Make sure ACLX device is mapped to all FAs - Especially to the FAs where I am going to connect my management ser

Hi all, I'm trying to add a LUN given from EMC symmetrix SAN to my Solaris 10 server. I keep getting errors when trying to label the disk using format: ug 26 20:29:08 wfaltstsr085 scsi: WARNING: /scsi_vhci/ssd@g60000970000298701218533030394231 (ssd0): Aug 26 20:29:08 wfaltstsr085    E

Hello all, Is there a fast way to come up with the list of all initiators that have any data being replicated on RDF1+Mir devices? I need to list all my hosts that have any data being replicated via SRDF. ECN members on an earlier question post have shown me a fast way to find the masking view

In Hitachi USPV, there is a shredder function to write 0 to a lun for 3 - 9 times. Business asks if such tool exist for VMAX.  I never heard of such tool in Symm but want to confirm.

Hello. Hopefully someone can walk me through what I hope is a simple answer.   I have the following defined in symclone: symclone -vse list Symmetrix ID: 000195702631       Source Device           Target Devic

I'd like to come up with a list of all my servers that have any storage being replicated by SRDF. I know symcfg -sid xxxx list -rdfg all will give me the names of all my RDF groups. Unfortunately, their names don't follow my company's naming convention and don't include the names of the initiator

Hello team, VMAX 40K running 5876 code. I have a device of 128 GB thin device to be expanded to 512 GB, which is running SQL server. Device is not any part of META. Have three pools 1) FC (RAID-5 3+1) 2) EFD (RAID-5 3+1) 3) SATA RAID 6(6+2) in total.  Device in question is part of FC (RAID-

We've recently installed a VMAX10k with three tiers (EFD, FC and SATA). FAST Policy is configured as 'free-for-all' with 100%/100%/100% for the three tiers, so the Symm can determine where to place the data. After we started migrating data to the VMAX we could see the EFD tier fill up; I've adjus

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Hi Folks , Is there any primus solution to decode the FA wwpn of VMAX-3 FA ports ( something similar to primus soutions EMC13308 and EMC223285 for Vmax-2 and olderversions) thanks in advance Rajesh V U

Should the PER bit be set with AS/400??

We have a VMAX 20k with 4 Engines with Open Systems and IBM mainframe volumes. We have 1 system bay and 2 drive bays.  Soon we will need to add another drive bay.  At what point will we need to add new Engines?  We seem to have good performance.  Our important Storage Groups hav