Category Archives: EMC

VNXe3200 – a new member in VNX/VNXe family

Posted on May 4, 2014 by admin

  Yes, let’s welcome the new member in the VNX/VNXe family – VNXe3200 . Even-though it is a VNXe, it is having almost all important features of the VNX-2 series, a true Unified system.   As said in the release, it is … Continue reading →

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Multicore FAST Cache, its FAST Cache++

Posted on April 23, 2014 by admin

A mid-range storage revolution, a new era started in September 2013, introduction of VNX-2 Multicore systems, brought many improvements in product features . With Multicore architecture below are the highlights of software/hardware improvements.   Here I am talking about one … Continue reading →

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EMC Elect 2014…!

Posted on January 15, 2014 by admin

Today,  EMC announced the 80 member batch of EMC Elect for the year 2014. I am really proud to be a part of the team. A perfect start for 2014 and the best New Year gift I can get from … Continue reading →

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EMC VNX MirrorView configuration

Posted on December 18, 2013 by admin

This time I am discussing here about MirrorView Configuration. Not something new but I believe there are not many posts available on internet discussing the steps to configure MirrorView. MirrorView is the replication technology used between EMC CLARiiON and VNX … Continue reading →

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Have you tried new EMC Support App for Android ?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by admin

Have you tried EMC Support app for Android ? EMC recently released Android application for EMC Support which enables you to access Service Requests on the move. With this app you can view the status of EMC service requests anytime/anywhere. … Continue reading →

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Configuring storage projection notification for VNX file systems

Posted on July 13, 2013 by admin

Storage projection is always a worry for any storage admin. For the EMC Celerra/VNX file systems we have option for viewing the projection. In this post I am trying to explain the steps for enabling notification for this, a feature … Continue reading →

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FAST Cache and Naviseccli

Posted on June 30, 2013 by admin

FAST (Fully Automated Storage tiering ) Cache as all you know is a new feature introduced with Clariion FALRE R30 and VNX systems, in which we are making use of high speed FLASH drives to be configured as cache. There … Continue reading →

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Using SYMCLI in offline mode or SYMCLI simulator

Posted on June 9, 2013 by admin

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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EMC Elect – 2014 on its way !

Posted on March 12, 2013 by admin

EMC Elect is a new recognition program from EMC which was introduced in November 2012. It is a community-driven program, for the contributions in EMC Community network , other social media websites  etc… You can find the official announcement here. … Continue reading →

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