EMC Storage Product Knowledge Sharing

I have been receiving mail to write on basic storage topic rather than only EMC. Here is first basic thing to know about FC technology.Fibare Channel is nothing but just a medium to connect host and shared storage. When we talk about SAN first things comes in mind about Fibre Channel.Fibre Channel is serial data transfer interface intended for connecting shared storage to computer. Where storage is not connected physically to host.Why FC is most important in SAN? Because FC gives you high speed through the following process:1)...

When running inq or syminq, you'll see a column titled Ser Num. This column has quite a bit of information hiding in it. An example syminq output is below. Your output will differ slightly as I'm creating a table from a book to show this; I don't currently have access to a system where I can get the actual output just yet.Device Product Device ------------------------ ---------- ---------------------- ----------------------...

SYMCLI BASE Commandssymapierr - Used to translate SYMAPI error code numbers into SYMAPI error messages.symaudit - List records from a symmetrix audit log file.symbcv - Perform BCV support operations on Symmetrix BCV devices.symcfg - Discover or display Symmetrix configuration information. Refresh the host's Symmetrix database file or remove Symmetrix info from the file. Can also be used to view or release a 'hanging' Symmetrix exclusive lock.symchg ...