VNXe Series – Justin's IT Blog

Answering Josh’s EMC VNXe Questions

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

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 their own. Here they are: [stextbox id=”black” caption=”Josh’s Comment”] Awesome…

EMC VNXe1600 – Configuring Hosts and LUNs

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

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, it allows them to mix and match drive and raid…

EMC releases VNXe1600 – Block Only VNXe3200

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Justin Paul | 20 Comments

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 RJ-45 ports (per SP) that can be 10Gb iSCSI or…

Direct Attach Fiber Channel with the EMC VNXe3200

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

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 with direct attached fiber channel hosts for the first time…

My roadmap for the VNXe series

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

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 direction than any customer or partner would. The thoughts in…

VNXe3200 Managing Storage and Cache

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Justin Paul | 13 Comments

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 running on the 3200 is a very different once you…

VNXe 3200 Controller Failover Behavior

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Justin Paul | 24 Comments

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 or failure. If you didn’t get a chance to experience…

EMC VNXe 3200; new firmware enables up to 150 drives

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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 July 31, 2014. Before this release the VNXe 3200 was…

Unable to delete VNXe Volume or inactive checkpoints/snapshots

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

NOTE: I recommend getting EMC support on the phone before trying any of the commands below, I take no responsibility if you lose data because you use them without fully knowing what they do. As always… if your job is…

Adding Shelves to a VNXe SAN

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 11 Comments

The other day I was asked to help install a new DAE on a VNXe3100 for a customer. While it is a very simple process I thought I would share what I look for to make sure that things…