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Is there a slick way to maintain rolling VP snaps on a VMAX device without having to write a huge, complicated Solutions Enabler script. I'm reviewing the docs I found but don't see a simple way to do this. Even VNX snaps can at least auto-expire. Any ideas?? I'm running 5876.272.177 Thanks.

Hi everyone, Does someone know how SRDF copies data from R1 to R2? Is it bit by bit? Does it copy empty spaces as well to R2? Thanks for responses!

Looking to deploy the OVA for Unipshere 1.6 and can't find any documentation if SE is included in the deployment or if I need to deploy that separately.

Hi, i am trying to implement LDAP authentication with unisphere for VMAX. I am unable to find any documentation regarding it.Can anyone help me out with it.Any sort of documentation,KB providing detailed steps will be much appreciated.Thanks.

so VMAX3 have no meta volume !! how can i achieve good performance without meta , what about Write Pending Limit WP , how is it calculated , does a big TB single volume going to have same WP% as any small volume

Hi All, I would like to know the RA ports are login each other once the Ports are Zoned before creating the RDF Groups. Do we have any command to check the same . My intention is to check the Zoning correctness through SYMCLI. Regards Arun

I've seen lots of information about how to use the SE reclaim function with "alloc_type=persistent" to start a reclaim on TDEVs that were bound persistently but I can't seem to find any command that will allow me to change the config of the TDEV to tuen off the "persistent" flag if it is no longer d

We are using FAST VP on a vmax 20k and have the 3 std thin pools - efd, fc and sata. the FC is Raid5 with FAST VP policy utilizing all three thin tiers We want to add a Raid 1 FC pool and create a new policy that utilizes the efd, FC-R1, and sata. In addition, the FC-R1 pool will consist of sam

Admins, For some reason am not able to post content in the VNX support forum - so am posting this question on Symmetrix forum. We are migrating from HP 3PAR and MSA to VNX soon. And we have a proposed VNX pool layout as below. Main Site: =========== VPOOL1 for APP: • 75 TB • Thin P

We have a new VMAX3 in for testing but I'm finding v.little information via the support pages around the basic discovery etc. Do EMC pre-define ACLX or equivalent in the factory to particular front-end ports?, or should I be able to discover via any port on the array?, should my CE be defining GK

During a Database restore activity we found our cache utilization go very high almost to about almost 98%.Later we were able to sort it out by implementing a host limit on the server.Now we noticed one of the LUN having a very high Write pending limit. Notice the LUN highlighted 0892 its bound to

hi new writes will allocate new extents in the original Thin pool where thin dev is bounded what about over write an extent that is already promoted to different thin pool/tier

How to change DMX director type from FibreChannel to RDF ?

Hi All , Naive question ,need some help understanding these mirrors , I've read multiple docs and blogs online and on ECN but the mirror positions ,concept keeps bouncing off my head .I know that prior to 5874 Raid 1/5 occupied 2 (M1,M2)positions each and Raid 6 - one position .  5874 onward

Hi All, want to understand about source R1 invalid tracks and Target R2 invalid tracks it will be very help full if somebody explain this. I have attached the below output in txt for better reading. When I started SRDF -------------------      Source (R1) View  &nb

Dear team, Can you please tell me what is -awwn > or aiscsi in command list of symmask on DMX & what does it do ? Thanks in Advance. Rakesh

I have a inq utility on a linux box. The linux host has a Emulex HBA. Both inq -hba and inq -mapinfo give no hba port wwn and vendor name. They give as N/A Does inq require SNIA libraries or any other driver softwares.

Hi all, Just received a query on how the unmap works in an SRDF environment where the host only sees the R1 box. I expect that unmap will be intercepted on the R1 side and run there, but how does it get to the R2 side?Will this also be handled as a VAAI or will these be all single commands bet

Hello Experts! Could you please tell me how it can be according next output if we have the FAST policies like this: Policy A:    10% EDF - 10 % FC - 80% SATA Policy B:     15% EDF - 15 % FC - 70% SATA and output: the device 09c1 and 061e are bound to SATA pool an

The unisphere for VMax OVA uses SUSE enterprise linux. It's extremely locked-down, even ssh seems to be disabled, but it seems to use apache as the web server (judging by the http response headers). Is it vulnerable to attack? If it is vulnerable, how will a patch be deployed to such a locked-down