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Guys, I need to power down VNX 5300 unified completely. Replace the component and power back up. Please share the procedure to power down the full storage and then power back up once ths task is completed.   Thank You      

Hello, Currently we have two new Brocade switches for a migration activity.We want to free up two ports by SP in VNX 5500. One of of these are mirrorview ports (by SP). We don't have replication now so these ports are unused.Is possible to use these ports like storage ports? Our aim it will be to

Hi, I'm working on trying to upgrade the firmware for a VNXe3200 device. When running the health check prior to the upgrade, I receive this error:"The health check has failed. A problem has been detected with a backend disk processor enclosure. Ensure that the backend cabling is correct. Error code:

Hi, I ask you for a help to make a script with Naviseccli.exe which allows to check the capacity of a volume being on a volume of a VNX5200 bay,I do not know this script language, I just managed to connect to it with: naviseccli -user uservnx -password passvnx -h -scope 0 -np getagent Thank you

Hi guys, We have VNX5100 system connected to database system. Storage configuration, total disk 60. Disk type - 600GB 15K SAS only. My question, is there any impact if the host IOPS recorded via Performance Data Logging (.nar) exceeded IOPS from my calculation. For an example, from .nar , host IO

Hi I have two VNX5500, I have created a storage pool "pool 0" and expanded it to 10TB. There is no data on it but it has 3TB used by 18 Virtual Disks which I can see under private luns. I want to delete the pool but cannot delete it directly or delete the 18 virtual disks. Any idea how I can do

Hello, I have two indipendent VNX5300 (single CS and double SP each). On one system (emc2-cs0) the SP seems unable to sends commands back to CS. How can I restore the communication SP->CS ? Below the error sequence I get on emc2-cs0 and also the correct sequence on emc1-cs0.   Appre

Hello, I'm unable to connect VNX5300 via GUI (USM/SP) using sysadmin account while ssh to CS using root is fine. Apparently naviseccli can talk to spa/spb. As you can see below the spa/spb complains that security is not initalized. If I try to create a new administrator user (ie: sysadmin2) it say

System Notification - VNX-5300.ced.local, ERROR, NaviEventMonitor Event Time: Jun 3 08:56:07 2019 Brief Description: CLARiiON call-home event number 0x956 Host SPB  Storage Array CKM00133400552  SPB  Device Bus 1 Enclosure 2 Disk 8  SoftwareRev 7.33.2 (0.51)  BaseRe

Hi! I'm new to VNXe. I've just had a system dropped on me that has had a disk fault. We ordered a replacement disk from our vendor, and they told us that the disk in question was no longer available for purchase, but that they had a replacement that would work. When installing it, the system doesn't

I asked this question last week, but need to dive a little deeper. I asked about zeroing out the data on the disks of a VNXe3300. I was pointed to a document containing commands to destroy the data and prepare the VNXe for decommission. However, I need to get down to the byte level on the disk

Hi all, how can I find out the number of hours needed to write zeros into the storage below ? I will be using the method below . https://thesanguy.com/2011/10/03/how-to-scrubzero-out-data-on-a-decommissioned-clariion/ Model: EMC VNXe 3200 Disks: 3 x 200GB flash drive for fast cache  

Hey there, VNX5200. I wanted to check out clones, so I created a test to see how it worked. I ran the clone wizard and everything seemed to go well. Unfortunately, I started getting hot spare policy errors. Seems like the process of creating the clone allocated some of my unbound drives to

Hi Community, I'm trying to update my VNX5300 but cannot upload the CX5-Bundle-05.32.000.5.249.pbu bundle. It shows the following error message : Does anyone have an idea about this error message. Thanks in advance.

We recently decommissioned a VNX and in Unisphere it now shows up as a pair of non-validated ip-addresses. does anyone know how to remove this VNX from the domain? I've tried engineering mode, but that doesn't help.

We currently have 2 RHEV hosts making an iSCSI connection to eth2 on our vnxe3200 (SPA assigned 10.0.X.A and SPB assigned 10.0.X.B on vlanXYZ). We now have two new ESXi hosts we would like to connect to the vnxe3200 via iSCSI but we are limited on Ethernet ports on the 3200. I know it is not best pr

Hi all, I have a VNX 5300 that I'm looking to resurrect for a lab environment. First I would like to upgrade the block firmware, however, after physically relocating the hardware to a different DC, I have a fault preventing me from doing the upgrade. The fault is: Disk Array Enclosure (Bus 1 E

Good morning, all! I'm running in to a problem I haven't seen before. I want to add a new VMware host to my cluster and attach it to my VNX 5300 array. I set up the software initiator, pointed it to the IP addresses on the array, and rescanned all HBAs and datastores. The scan returned one datastor

We have a monitoring tool in place and we are receiving this alert almost every hour from Unity 350F. Could you please help me in how to check the memory usage using Unisphere or UniCLI. I have tried to check on the Unisphere but could find the options to check the Cache memory size.

Hello, I have some doubts about a normal extension of a file system but in a replicated environment. Scenario is: VNXe as source and VNX 5800 as target. I read that in order to expand the file system I have to delete the replication session, extend FS on both arrays and then re-create the r