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The Unisphere CLI is intended for users who want to use commands in scripts for automating routine tasks.
Updated: July 31, 2025
The Unisphere Service diagnostic, configuration, and recovery commands provide in-depth information and a lower level of system control.
Updated: July 31, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: October 29, 2025
Replace a faulted disk processor enclosure (DPE) in your Dell Unity™ Family storage system.
Updated: October 20, 2025
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: October 01, 2025
This document describes how to install the Common Event Enabler in a Linux environment. It provides information on how to install, configure, and manage Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CEPA is a mechanism whereby third-party applications can register to receive event notification and context from a system.
Updated: September 30, 2025
This document describes how to install the Common Event Enabler framework in a Windows environment. It provides information on how to install, configure, and manage Common Antivirus Agent (CAVA) and Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CAVA provides an antivirus solution to the clients. CEPA is a mechanism whereby third-party applications can register to receive event notification and context from a system. The Common Event Enabler was formerly called the Celerra Event Enabler and the VNX Event Enabler.
Updated: September 30, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: September 03, 2025
Upgrade the Operating Environment (OE) software, disk firmware, and language packs installed on your storage system.
Updated: July 31, 2025
Information about Unity SNMP alert messages.
Updated: July 31, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: June 13, 2025
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: March 26, 2025
REST API commands for configuring and managing Unity.
Updated: March 26, 2025
Learn how to configure and manage LUNs, LUN move sessions, and block thin clones.
Updated: March 26, 2025
The SupportAssist feature provides your authorized Dell service provider with remote access capabilities to your storage system using a secure and encrypted tunnel.
Updated: March 26, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: February 07, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: February 07, 2025
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: February 07, 2025
This document lists the drive part numbers supported for Unity storage systems and the minimum software revisions required for each drive model.
Updated: January 23, 2025
Set up Windows, AIX, Citrix XenServer, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris hosts to access Fibre Channel or iSCSI storage on a Unity system.
Updated: December 30, 2024
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: December 12, 2024
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: November 14, 2024
Follow best practices to create and manage pools for Unity storage systems by using the Unisphere GUI or CLI. Configure RAID groups, FAST Cache, and FAST VP.
Updated: September 10, 2024
This document describes how to install the Common Event Enabler framework in a Windows environment. It provides information on how to install, configure, and manage Common Antivirus Agent (CAVA) and Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CAVA provides an antivirus solution to the clients. CEPA is a mechanism whereby third-party applications can register to receive event notification and context from a system. The Common Event Enabler was formerly called the Celerra Event Enabler and the VNX Event Enabler.
Updated: June 14, 2024
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: March 27, 2024
Configure Dell Unity NAS servers and file systems to enable support for SMB (CIFS) access.
Updated: February 08, 2024
Provides information on Open Source licenses and copyrights.
Updated: February 08, 2024
This document lists the drive part numbers supported for Unity storage systems and the minimum software revisions required for each drive model.
Updated: January 18, 2024
This document lists the drive part numbers supported for Unity XT storage systems and the minimum software revisions required for each drive model.
Updated: January 18, 2024
A list of all available REST APIs for Dell Unity systems.
Updated: December 12, 2023
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: September 27, 2023
This document describes how to install the Common Event Enabler in a Linux environment. It provides information on how to install, configure, and manage Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CEPA is a mechanism whereby third-party applications can register to receive event notification and context from a system.
Updated: September 27, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: July 27, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: May 05, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: May 05, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: May 05, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: May 05, 2023
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: May 05, 2023
This document details known tips and strategies for Unity, SC, PowerScale, ME4, and ME5 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: March 29, 2023
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: March 03, 2023
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: January 27, 2023
This document details known tips and strategies for Unity, SC, PowerScale, ME4, and ME5 to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: December 20, 2022
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: December 02, 2022
How to replace a faulted storage processor in a disk processor enclosure in a Unity storage system.
Updated: October 03, 2022
This document details known tips and strategies for Unity, SC, Isilon, ME4, and ME5 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: September 29, 2022
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: July 28, 2022
This document provides information about the latest release of Dell EMC Common Event Enabler software and related documentation.
Updated: July 19, 2022
This document details known tips and strategies for Unity, SC, Isilon, ME4, and ME5 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: June 29, 2022
Describes how DC-powered enclosures differ from their AC-powered counterparts.
Updated: June 13, 2022
This document describes characteristics of the volatile and non-volatile memory components of Dell EMC Unity and Dell EMC Unity XT. The information contained within this document is pertinent to system owners that may need to qualify the risk associated with ensuring that all memory within a product has been cleared in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Updated: April 29, 2022
This document details known tips and strategies for Dell EMC Unity, SC, Isilon, and ME4 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: March 28, 2022
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: March 01, 2022
These release notes contain supplemental information about the VAAI Plug-in for use with VNX, VNXe, and Unity systems.
Updated: January 10, 2022
This document details known tips and strategies for Dell EMC Unity, SC, Isilon, and ME4 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: January 04, 2022
Supplementary information about Unity release systems and software, including fixes, defects, and enhancements for the current release.
Updated: December 29, 2021
This document details known tips and strategies for Dell EMC Unity, SC, Isilon, and ME4 to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: September 28, 2021
Disassembly instrucrions for the EPE and EAE
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions TAE
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions for TRPE
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions_KTN
Updated: July 06, 2021
EU2SPE_WEEE_Disassembly_instruction
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions for BPE12BPE25
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions_JTFR
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions for Consoles/Bezels
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly instructions for SLICS
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions for SPS
Updated: July 06, 2021
Disassembly Instructions for Naga
Updated: July 06, 2021
The system shut down or power down procedure involves shutting down the Storage Processors (SPs) before disconnecting optional disk-array enclosures from cabinet power. When all SPs are down, all I/O services stop and hosts lose access to the system. The system restart or power up procedure involves returning power to the system components in a specific order. When all SPs have returned to normal mode, you can reconnect the hosts to the storage resources on the system.
Updated: June 21, 2021
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 21, 2021
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 21, 2021
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 21, 2021
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 21, 2021
Provides May 2021 Dell Software Release and Support Duration Notice
Updated: June 01, 2021
Instructions on how to prepare a site to install the Titan S rack
Updated: April 23, 2021
Cohasset Associates, Inc. (Cohasset) has recognized expertise and more than 40 years of experience with the legal, technical and operational issues associated with the records management practices of companies regulated by the SEC and CFTC. In this report, Cohasset assesses the capabilities of Unity in comparison to the five requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4(f) for recording and non-rewriteable, non-erasable storage of electronic records and the three requirements for an audit system. This report also associates the principles-based requirements of CFTC Rule 1.31(c)-(d) to the assessed capabilities of Unity.
Updated: January 14, 2021
Provides November 2020 Dell Software Release and Support Duration Notice
Updated: November 30, 2020
This white paper provides best practices guidance for configuring Microsoft Exchange Server to perform optimally with Dell EMC Unity All-Flash storage arrays.
Updated: October 12, 2020
This white paper provides best practices guidance for configuring Microsoft Hyper-V to perform optimally with Dell EMC Unity All-Flash
storage arrays.
Updated: October 12, 2020
This white paper introduces Dell EMC CloudIQ, a free, cloud-based application that lets you easily monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot your Dell EMC Unity, SC Series, XtremIO, and PowerMax/VMAX systems from anywhere and at any time. This paper provides a detailed description of how to use CloudIQ to proactively monitor and troubleshoot Dell EMC storage systems.
Updated: July 22, 2020
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX2, Unity, and SC to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: March 31, 2020
This white paper provides recommended best practice guidelines for installing and configuring Dell EMC Unity systems for best performance.
Updated: March 27, 2020
This white paper reviews moving data within a Dell EMC Unity system and the options available for migrating data from a CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX, or VNXe series system to the Dell EMC Unity platform. An overview of each solution is provided, followed by a discussion of the solution’s merits and applications. This paper serves as a centralized resource for migration options and contributes to the overall decision making process of arriving at Dell EMC Unity.
Updated: July 29, 2019
This guide shows how to configure Dell EMC Unity, PowerMax, and SC Series storage arrays to work with VMware Cloud Foundation.
Updated: July 23, 2019
Instructions for adding a 15-drive DAE
Updated: June 27, 2019
Instructions for adding a 25-drive DAE
Updated: June 27, 2019
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX2, Unity, and SC to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This document provides a reference architecture for running 3,000 VMware Horizon linked clone VDI users on Dell EMC Unity 680F storage.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This white paper is an introduction to the Dell EMC Unity Data Reduction feature. It provides an overview of the feature, methods for managing data reduction, and interoperability with other Dell EMC Unity features. Data Reduction exists in Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.3 and later.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This white paper introduces the Dell EMC Unity platform. It provides an overview of the different deployment options available for Dell EMC Unity, including All Flash, Hybrid, and Dell EMC UnityVSA, as well as a deeper look at the purpose built Dell EMC Unity system. A brief look at the Dell EMC Unity software stack with a focus on highlight features will conclude the paper.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This document provides best practices for deploying Microsoft SQL Server with Dell EMC Unity All-Flash arrays and includes recommendations for performance, availability, and scalability.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This white paper explains the NAS capabilities that are available on Dell EMC Unity storage systems. It provides a detailed review of the rich feature set, functionality, features, and protocols that are supported. It also provides a deep dive in to the enhancements that are enabled by the Dell EMC Unity File System architecture.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This document provides best practices for deploying Oracle databases with Dell EMC Unity All-Flash arrays, including recommendations and considerations for performance, availability, and scalability.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This white paper explains the replication solutions for Dell EMC Unity systems. This paper outlines the native and non-native options available for replicating data. It also includes information on managing replication, and the benefits that replication provides.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This white paper introduces and describes Dell EMC Unisphere for the Dell EMC Unity platform. Unisphere is a web-based solution that provides an easy-to-use interface for storage management actions, including creating storage resources, configuring and scheduling protection for stored data, and using advanced features like replication and host I/O limits. All of these features are crucial to a company’s needs.
Updated: June 27, 2019
This document provides best practices for deploying VMware vSphere with Dell EMC Unity All-Flash arrays including settings and configuration recommendations for vSphere hosts to achieve an optimal combination of performance and resiliency.
Updated: June 27, 2019
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 27, 2019
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: June 27, 2019
Instructions on how to prepare a site to install the Titan 40U-P rack.
Updated: June 04, 2019
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX2, Unity, and SC to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: March 31, 2019
This white paper describes the Dell EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) and how it can be used with Dell EMC Unity systems. CTA allows administrators to move block and file data from a Dell EMC Unity storage system to and from the cloud. CTA also facilitates cloud repository migration, stub aware file migration, and the usage of Dell EMC Unity as a destination repository.
Updated: March 26, 2019
This white paper explains the usage of MetroSync for Dell EMC Unity, a synchronous disaster recovery solution for file resources. The paper outlines the available commands and configurations available when replicating file data using this feature as well as utilizing advanced features. This feature is available on Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.4 and later.
Updated: February 28, 2019
This document analyzes Dell EMC Unity data reduction ratios for various application-specific data types to help administrators accurately estimate space savings.
Updated: February 19, 2019
How to replace a link control card (LCC) in a 25-drive disk-array enclosure (DAE) in a Unity storage system.
Updated: January 31, 2019
How to replace a link control card (LCC) in a 15-drive disk-array enclosure (DAE) in a Unity storage system.
Updated: January 31, 2019
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: January 31, 2019
This technical note goes over various ways that customers can access file systems and snapshots on asynchronously replicated destination resources on Dell EMC Unity systems.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper is an introduction to Dynamic Pools. It provides an overview of Dynamic Pool technology, including information of the underlying structures, benefits for using Dynamic Pools, and methods for managing Dynamic Pools.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper explains the concepts and benefits of File-Level Retention (FLR) for Dell EMC Unity. The paper outlines the available commands and configurations available when using this feature and advanced features. This feature is available on Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.5 and later.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper discusses the high availability features on Dell EMC Unity purpose-built solution.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This document describes how to configure and integrate home directories with MetroSync for Dell EMC Unity to create a synchronous disaster-recovery solution for file resources. This feature is available on Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.4 and later.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This document describes how to configure and integrate VMware vSphere NFS datastores with MetroSync for Dell EMC Unity to create a synchronous disaster-recovery solution for vSphere virtualized workloads. This feature is available on Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.4 and later.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper explains the Performance Metrics features for Dell EMC Unity systems. Viewing performance information, including adding charts, customizing the time range, exporting chart data, and downloading performance archive files is discussed.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper describes Dell EMC Unity Snapshots and Thin Clones for Dell EMC Unity storage systems and includes information about their configuration management, and other functionality.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This white paper introduces the virtualization features and integration points that are available on Dell EMC Unity.
Updated: January 31, 2019
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: January 31, 2019
This Readme First document lists the components of the Dell EMC File-Level Retention (FLR) Toolkit solution and troubleshooting information.
Updated: January 31, 2019
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer uptime. Many benefits of current target code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: January 04, 2019
Contains safety and EMI information for SLICs.
Updated: November 28, 2018
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: October 17, 2018
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: August 31, 2018
Find guidelines about your product, system specifications, tools, setup options, troubleshooting tips and more
Updated: August 31, 2018
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: June 29, 2018
This white paper is an introduction to the Dell EMC Unity Compression feature. It provides an overview of the feature, methods for managing compression, and interoperability with other Dell EMC Unity features.
Updated: March 30, 2018
In Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.2 and later, compression support was added for Thin File storage resources created on Dell EMC Unity OE version 4.2 or later code. This document outlines how Dell EMC Unity Asynchronous Replication can be leveraged to achieve savings within SMB/NFS File Systems or NFS Datastores created on OE version 4.1 and earlier. This process can also be used to compress existing data within a File System or VMware NFS Datastore created on OE version 4.2 and later. For full details on compression, including an overview, management options, and interoperability with other features, refer to the Dell EMC Unity Compression white paper found on Dell EMC Online Support.
Updated: March 30, 2018
This white paper explains the methods used by Dell EMC Unity to ensure the end-to-end integrity of data from the source as it travels through the Dell EMC Unity system.
Updated: March 30, 2018
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: March 30, 2018
Collect and record information for configuring the Dell EMC Unity system using Online Support, the Dell EMC Unity Connection Utility, and the Unisphere Configuration Wizard.
Updated: March 20, 2018
Brief overview of SRS in Dell EMC Unity deployments and pre-installation instructions for both Integrated and Centralized ESRS.
Updated: January 11, 2018
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: January 05, 2018
A Reference Architecture for running 2,000 VDI Knowledge worker users on Dell Emc Unity 350F arrays. For architects or customers wishing to understand the performance of a Dell EMC Unity 350F array supporting VDI workloads.
Updated: November 17, 2017
How to replace a power/cooling module in a 25-drive disk-array enclosure (DAE) in a Unity storage system.
Updated: October 18, 2017
This white paper explains how to migrate Block data from a CLARiiON CX or VNX Series system to Dell EMC Unity. This paper outlines how to use EMC SAN Copy to easily perform the migration of Block devices, and includes simple, step-by-step instructions for the migration.
Updated: October 18, 2017
This document details known tips and strategies for VNX, and VNXe to maximize customer "uptime." Many benefits of current "target" code revisions are discussed and promoted in an honest and open way.
Updated: September 28, 2017
How to add a new 80-drive DAE to the Dell EMC Unity storage system.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted power supply in an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to add a new disk to an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted link control card in an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted fan or cooling module in an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted disk in an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted system status card in an 80-drive DAE.
Updated: July 12, 2017
How to replace a faulted memory module in a disk processor enclosure (DPE) in a Unity x00/F Series, x50/F Series, or 380/F storage system.
Updated: July 12, 2017
This white paper explains the Data at Rest Encryption feature, which provides controller-based encryption of data stored on Dell EMC Unity storage systems to protect against unauthorized access to lost or stolen drives or system. The encryption technology as well as its implementation on Dell EMC Unity storage systems are discussed.
Updated: July 12, 2017
Installation overview and guidance to for setting up a physical Unity x00/F Series, x50/F Series, or 380/F system.
Updated: November 06, 2016
This troubleshooting checklist provides you with information to identify and resolve issues with the Unity system.
Updated: May 06, 2016