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Hello folks, I was wondering if we can use VP Snap as the R2 BCV in SRDF Asynchronus replication scenario. I know that we can use a TF clone but not a TF snap as R2BCV in a SRDF/A replication, what about TF VP Snap? We will be limited on storage at DR site, so we want to use VP snaps at the targe

Can you help to check Host Lun number from DMX

Is there any command to check memory board status in DMX model ? Symcli Version V7.3.1.0 Sym : DMX3-24   5771

Hi, I am just a little confused with snap % change rate. Do we always add the 15% buffer to % change rate given in the exam or not? This is important for exam questions. So in the exam if % change rate is given do we apply the 15% buffer to this for calc e.g Question in exam calc no of save devs

Hi Everyone, In case of multiple disk failures in different DAEs. How to locate the specifc failed disk, using its DA,Interface,Target ID details? What is the method to get the exact disk location? in which bay, DAE and disk slot, bad disk is? Waiting for your kind suggestions...

I have couple of questions on TF Snap support for thin luns on VMAXe [VMAX10K] and VMAX Do we have Vdevs on VMAX10K? For VMAX10K arrays, do we support TF Snap technology for thin source devices irrespective of Microcode version. That would mean that Vdevs could be used as target replica dev

Do we need to use 10gig links to connect primary site with secondary for replicating the data from equallogic ps6110 XV storage? Pls suggest

Hi, Can we map one device to two FA's"(1a,16a),(2a,15a)" with different lun ID's in Dmax-4 ? If the answer is yes. Is it EMC recommended? Please suggest.

How can I check the configured capacity on an old legacy model ? microcode : 5568 and cli version : 4.3 ? Thanks ACR

I have heard, word of mouth, that when configuring new symmetrix devices, that you should always configure with even-numbered cylinder counts, but I have been unable to find any recent documentation to support this. I have found some older documentation that seemed to indicate that odd nunbers can

Hi, What are the limitations of R2 device attributes, in reference to R1. I have few devices which are stripped 80gb( few 3 way meta and few no meta) devices. By new standard we are following 4 way stripped 100gb device.Usually SRDF we do same config as R1 device, but can I change the size an

Hello, Not sure how and why one Gatekeeper device is visible on a Solaris server, the server is not an ECC or SYMCLI server. this device is throwing SCSI error on the server they are not able to disable or label it from server end. the device is Write Disabled on the array and cant be changed

I'm trying to confirm that using symauth for Symmetrix authorization will block the "root" user from being able to execute Symcli commands. The customer's requirement: Everyone has the sudo privileges on Symcli server including Unix, Backup and Storage Admins. Their purpose is to restrict the bo

Hello, we currently have DMX4s and will upgrade to VMAX next year. We have IBM mainframe, Unisys mainframe, AIX, Windows, VMware etc connected to the Symm arrays.  We are using old style TimeFinder (symmir) with BCVs on our IBM mainframes. Soon we will be implementing replication on our Un

Hello All, Currently in the customer's environment, the min cycle time for SRDF/A is set at default 15 secs. I have also checked the avg cycle time over a period of 6 months and its 15 secs. Hence, the R2 data lag is always 30 secs. Customer wants to decrease the R2 lag data time below 30 secs.

Folks, Can anyone help me out for the below error msg in the SYMCLI ? "EMC:EVTdaemon iFindandOpenGate Failed to open pooled Gatekeeper: The specified array id is not known (XXXXX) " Scenario: 1. SE was upgraded from 7.3 to 7.6 in the Service Processor 2. Installation was successful 3. when i issui

How to change device config from concatenated to striped META on VMAX Do we lose any data while converting from Striped to Concatenated ?

In the -nocopy option, as per the product guide, it says that the copy happens when there is host I/O on target device or if there is a change in a track on the source device. Can someone please clarify, in a TimeFinder/Clone operation, when and in what situations is the target device available f

Is it possible to connect DMX4 – 950 to service processor to customer network for management? I know you can do it on VMAX and it’s well documented but can’t seem to locate anything to confirm it was possible on the 950.

Can a policy have more than three pools associated with it? Particularly, could you have a RAID-5 EFD tier, a RAID-10 FC tier, a RAID-5 FC tier, and a RAID-6 SATA tier? Is it possible to set a pool to read-only.  For example, if the answer to the previous question is yes, could you set the R