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EMC VMAX to the All-Flash market – VMAX All-Flash arrays

On Monday (29-Feb), EMC announced their All-Flash models of VMAX arrays. With the addition of All-Flash version of EMC VMAX 3 series of arrays, EMC is targeting to continue to maintain their position in today’s busiest storage market – the AFA Market. … Continue reading

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Administering a VMAX-3 series system ? A few things you have to consider..

EMC VMAX-3 series systems were launced almost an year back, and more and more customers are going for VMAX-3 now. From an administration perspective there are few differences with VMAX-3 from the previous VMAX series. You may read the architectural … Continue reading

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VMAX – Expanding a Thin pool via symcli

We had discussed about deleting a Thin pool here in one of our previous post. Now we will discuss how to expand a thin pool via symcli, i.e, adding more TDATs to the pool. We can first make a note … Continue reading

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VMAX – deleting a thin pool, its easy…

Here we will discuss the procedure to delete the thin pool. Thin pools will be containing DATA devices and will have TDEVs (Thin devices) bound on it. Let’s go through the procedure in detail. For deleting a thin pool,

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GB to/from Cylinders conversion ? Converters for you..

While working with EMC symcli , it is a challenge for the beginners, the storage administrators to convert the device size (GB/MB) to number of cylinders and vice-versa. VMAX and DMX volume operations are often performed with the device size in cylinders mentioned. So … Continue reading

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Using SYMCLI in offline mode or SYMCLI simulator

SYMCLI is the most widely used EMC symmetrix administration tool and the same is found more comfortable by most of the admins. For practicing symcli commands there is no symcli simulator available (AFAIK) and of course we can not simply … Continue reading

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