My question is regarding EMC symmetrix  bin file .My company is planing for a hardware upgrade  and according to EMC they need to have a lock on this bin file for 5days that is we are not allowed to do any configuration changes for 5 days in the Storage box.I really dont understand how this kind of limitations are there in an enterprise array .

Also can anyone give me a link for whitepapers reg .bin file am not able to find much usefull info on net