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…
VNXe3200 gets a code update (3.1.1.4823793)
Today EMC released a new code update for the VNXe3200, and with it comes a whole bunch of awesomeness. It was posted up today and is rev. 3.1.1.4823793 Here is the…
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…
Unable to delete VNXe Volume or inactive checkpoints/snapshots
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…
Adding Shelves to a VNXe SAN
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…
VNXe Controller failover compared to other SAN devices
Update: With the release of the VNXe3200 all of the issues discussed in this post have been resolved. For a review of the VNXe3200 controller failover process check out my…
RAID10: Do you really need it?
This past week I installed an EMC VNXe 3100, the install went well and the new Unisphere Interface made it a snap to get the VMware ESXi boxes added. One…