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When connecting to an ESX host for the first time, rpowermt prompts the administrator for the username and password of the ESX host. Each new ESX host managed by rpowermt generates a prompt a username and password. The administrator is prompted for a lockbox password once, rpowermt securely stores the following information in a lockbox(encrypted file). -         --ESX host being accessed -     --Username and password of ESX host being accessed, Storing...

EMC Unified Storage is 20% more efficient that the competition. Even Erik Estrada from CHiPS knows that now.It's simple to be efficient with EMC EMC unified storage makes it simple for you to contain information growth and satisfy the needs of your data-hungry virtual machines while requiring 20% less raw capacity. This works to your advantage when comparing EMC to other unified storage arrays. If, for some unlikely reason, EMC isn’t 20% more efficient, we'll match the shortfall with additional storage—that's how confident we...

EMC Unisphere - Next generation storage management that provides single and simple interface for both current and future clariion and celerra series. Unisphere provides capability to integrate other element manager and provides built in support tool, software download and live chat etc. Note :-  Unisphere features will be available in Q3 2010: Check out demo about EMC Unisphere, presented by Bob Abraham :             • Task-based navigation and controls...

BCV copies can be used for backup, restore, decision support, and application testing., BCV devices contain no data after initial Symmetrix configuration. The full establish operation must be used the first time the standard devices are paired with their BCV devices. 1.  Associate the BCV Device for pairing:To perform standard/BCV pairing, the standard and BCV mirror devices of your production images must be members of the same device group (Note:- Already discussed in previous post about creating device group and pairing...

VMware hosts require few mandatory FA bits setting before SAN storage to be provision. Apart from FA bits a series of procedure require from installing HBAs, HBA Firmware and drivers, zoning, mapping, masking devices, to configure kernel files and devices. Let’s assume we have already identified Symmetrix FA port for VMware host and completed zoning on switch. It is better to have separate FA pair for VMware host. (You can connect VMware host to 2 pair FA if you have enough FA resources available and going to deploy critical...

CLARiiON Flare release 29 (04.29.000.5.001) introduce support for several new features as follow: 1) Virtualization-aware Navisphere Manager - Discovery of VMware client always were difficult in earlier release but Flare 29 enables CLARiiON CX4 users and VMware administrators to reduce infrastructure reporting time from hours to minutes. Earlier releases have allowed only a single IP address to be assigned to each iSCSI physical port. With Flare 29, the ability to define multiple virtual iSCSI ports on each physical port has...

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