The answer to your question really is "it depends on the management operation performed". It is hard to clearly outline every scenario and the potential outcome. For example, if a user runs a provisioning operation on a VMAX outside of ViPR while ViPR is also actively provisioning on the array, the outcome could potentially be of loss of data.
Having said that, there may be specific scenarios where a VMAX could be potentially shared btw ViPR and another provisioning tool (such as SYMCLI or your home grown scripts, etc) by carefully separating the FA ports, etc. If you have a specific scenario in mind, we could may be assist you more.
Vinay_Narayana
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July 7th, 2014 07:00
Hi Stu8888,
The answer to your question really is "it depends on the management operation performed". It is hard to clearly outline every scenario and the potential outcome. For example, if a user runs a provisioning operation on a VMAX outside of ViPR while ViPR is also actively provisioning on the array, the outcome could potentially be of loss of data.
Having said that, there may be specific scenarios where a VMAX could be potentially shared btw ViPR and another provisioning tool (such as SYMCLI or your home grown scripts, etc) by carefully separating the FA ports, etc. If you have a specific scenario in mind, we could may be assist you more.
Vinay