Hi,

If I were you, I'd take another approach. Just giving a list of commands to use will most likely not entirely work in your situation (each installation is different), but above all: it's dangerous to enter commands that you don't entirely understand, especially when dealing with a device that most likely contains very valuable data. (If it's not valuable, it probably wouldn't have been stored on a DMX.)

If you understand how a Symm works, the SYMCLI documentation will actually make sense and tell you what you want to know.

Suze,

I would start out by downloading Solutions Enabler documentation CD located at:
Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ S ~ Documentation > Solutions Enabler > General Reference

also download documentation for the models of arrays you are managing:

Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Hardware/Platforms Documentation > Symmetrix DMX Family

There a lot of documents but all very good reading. Hardware documentation will explain hardware aspects of your array, while Solution Enabler will help you manage it. Also search Symmetrix and Solution Enabler forums ..it's very likely that your question has come up before. Welcome to the forums

After some more reading (it seems I need to do more oif that!), found out that symmwin is an EMC only tool? and there are some symcli commands to configure the bin file to some extent.

So I guess I should really read those Solutions Enabler links to find these commands. Thanks again!

All,
Thanks for your replies ! they are really helpful.

After some reading, it seems that what I need to know actually is how to configure the bin file (through symmwin), to carve the volumes from storage.

I tried looking around for more information how to do this (tweaking the bin file) but not much luck. Can anyone kindly give me some clues or links as to how I can do this?

This is just to satisfy my curiousity more than anything else

Thanks
Suze

keep reading ..you will find a section in the guide that explains how to create devices using Solutions Enabler cli ..no need for symmwin at all. Also search "Symmetrix" forum for keywords such as "create new device", "free space" ..etc

You should also consider taking a serious look at Symmetrix Management Console (SMC). While it won't help you understand the "guts" of your DMX better, it will help you once you figure out what you want to do. Most things that can be done through Solutions Enabler can be done through SMC as well, and the GUI provides an easier interface as you are learning your Symms.

Just something else to add to your toolbox.

First checked the avialable unconfigured space using the following command

symconfigure -sid xxx list -freespace -UNITS MB

Second create a file with following syntex and exeute preview-prepare and commit
create dev count=8,size=1100,config=2-way-mir,emulation=FBA;

The Aforementioned command will create 8 devices of size 512 MB.
FBA is used for open system.

Try the below :

create dev count=x, config=2-way-mir, size=y, emulation=fba;

where x = number of devices you want to create
where y = size of device you want to create in cylinders.

You can select various types in the config including BCV, savdev etc

the above will need to be placed in a txt file or vi and run using the

symconfigure -sid xxx -f "file location" preview, prepare, commit