Answering Josh’s EMC VNXe Questions
Josh left a great comment for me on the new VNXe Host and LUN setup post, I felt the questions, and their answers, were important enough for a post of…
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EMC VNXe1600 – Configuring Hosts and LUNs
The VNXe1600 is the block only version of the VNXe3200. For SMB sized VMware environments this is the perfect storage array as it allows the customer to add FAST Cache,…
EMC releases VNXe1600 – Block Only VNXe3200
It looks like there is a new member of the VNXe family, a block only version of the VNXe3200. There are also some hardware differences too: VNXe3200 has 4 copper…
Direct Attach Fiber Channel with the EMC VNXe3200
The demo box that I have from EMC does not have the fiber channel mez card in it, but last week I did get a chance to configure a VNXe3200…
My roadmap for the VNXe series
Disclaimer: I don’t work for EMC and I don’t have any inside information that any other customer or partner wouldn’t have. I also have no more influence over the product…
VNXe3200 Managing Storage and Cache
The VNXe3200 is almost identical to both the previous VNXe’s as well as the VNX series of SAN’s in that it uses Unisphere for management. However, the version of Unisphere…
VNXe 3200 Controller Failover Behavior
Two years ago I posted an article describing how the VNXe3100 (and 3300 and 3150) had a major drawback in the way that it handled IO during a controller reboot…
EMC VNXe 3200; new firmware enables up to 150 drives
On Thursday EMC quietly released a firmware update for the VNXe3200 which allows the system to recognize up to 150 drives. The version number is 3.0.1.3513260 and again it was released…
Stats Logging on an EMC VNX SAN
From time to time I get asked how to turn on the statistics logging functions on a VNX array so that a customer can see what is going on inside…
Upgrading unified VNX freezes; leaves Unisphere broken
Last week I was upgrading a VNX5300 unified to FLARE 32, since FLARE 31 will be end of support soon, and ran into some issues. This is the first time…