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December 12th, 2013 07:00
Learning to use our SAN. Best guides and tutorials?
I've inherited a VNX 5300 which has already been configured and has been in production use for about 12 months with no issues. We're in the process of purchasing a new DAE to extend our storage capacity and would like to take this opportunity to learn a bit more about the SAN, how to configure it, set up storage etc.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for books \ tutorials for getting to grips with our VNX 5300 in terms of the individual components, how they fit together and what they do. On top of the hardware side of things any information on basic configuration of the SANs and other beginner topics would be great.
I appreciate this is probably a very basic question to be asking however we've all got to start somewhere right?!
umichklewis
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December 12th, 2013 09:00
EMC has a wealth of information on its Support site, but it can sometimes be overwhelming.
One resource worth checking out is Youtube. EMC has a number of videos on specific features of the VNX, including performing many things in the Unisphere GUI and CLI. You can start at EMC - YouTube and find many things there.
You can also find Introduction to the VNX: A Detailed Review and similar documentation on the Support site, but you'll probably find this a lot of information to digest. You can find it on the Support siteI suggest you skim it, come up with questions (no matter how basic!) then search the EMC Community Pages for those concepts - I'll bet you'll find someone has already asked the same question!
Let us know if that helps!
clayman88
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December 12th, 2013 09:00
This is a great document that covers most of what you're asking:
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8217-introduction-vnx-wp.pdf
christopher_ime
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December 14th, 2013 11:00
In addition to all the great recommendations, I'd also like to suggest the following "My Documents" (UPD) portal.
https://mydocs.emc.com/VNX
It is a great repository of white papers, installation guides, and hardware overviews. For many of the publications (especially for the various "tasks"), you'll be able to generate a customized document for example specific your VNX model, for tasks such as "Attach a server" it will prompt you for details specific to your environment such as OS, protocol, etc.