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…
Category: Hardware
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…
Cisco UCS Mini Bundles
So I was doing some BOM’s for a customer project today and thought I’d share more information on what UCS Mini bundles are out there right now. As well as…
Introducing the Cisco UCS Mini
If you have been considering Cisco UCS blades for your upcoming server refresh, but know that you won’t ever need more than a single chassis of blades… then go grab…
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…
Cisco grabs #1 spot on Blade Server list
I was introduced to Cisco servers with their C200 M1 box pretty shortly after it came out… Speaking of which March 16, 2009 is the day Cisco announced the UCS platform.…
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…