EMC Storage Product Knowledge Sharing

Here we are looking at only three possible ways in which a host can be attached to a Clariion. From talking with customers in class, these seem to be the three most common ways in which the hosts are attached.The key points to the slide are:1. The LUN, the disk space that is created on the Clariion, that will eventually be assigned to the host, is owned by one of the Storage Processors, not both.2. The host needs to be physically connected...

The purpose of a MetaLUN is that a Clariion can grow the size of a LUN on the ‘fly’. Let’s say that a host is running out of space on a LUN. From Navisphere, we can “Expand” a LUN by adding more LUNs to the LUN that the host has access to. To the host, we are not adding more LUNs. All the host is going to see is that the LUN has grown in size. We will explain later how to make space available to the host.There are two types of MetaLUNs,...

A metaLUN is a type of LUN whose maximum capacity can be the combined capacities of all the LUNs that compose it. The metaLUN feature lets you dynamically expand the capacity of a single LUN (base LUN) into a larger unit called a metaLUN. You do this by adding LUNs to the base LUN. You can also add LUNs to a metaLUN to further increase its capacity. Like a LUN, a metaLUN can belong to a Storage Group, and can participate in SnapView, MirrorView and SAN copy sessions. MetaLUNs are supported only on CX-Series storage systems.A...

If you open Navisphere Manager and select any Frame/Array and click properties of Array, you will see a cache tab, which will give you cache configuration. There you need to setup configuration like LOW watermark, Hight Watermark. Did you think how CLARiiON behave on these percentage. Lets look close FLUSHING method what CLARiiON does:There will many situation when CLARiiON Processor has to Cache Flushing to keep some free space in cache Memory.There are different size for cache memory for different series of CLARiiON.There...