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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...

To setup Replication Manager you must perform the following tasks:1) Verify that your environment has the minimum required storage hardware and that the hardware has a standard CLARiiON configuration.2) Confirm that your Replication Manager hosts (server and clients) are connected to the CLARiiON environment through a LAN connection.3) Zone the fibre switch appropriately (if applicable). The clients must be able to access all storage arrays they are using and the mount hosts must be able to access all storage in the EMC Replication...

The global reserved LUN pool works with replication software, such as SnapView, SAN Copy, and MirrorView/A to store data or information required to complete a replication task. The reserved LUN pool consists of one or more private LUNs. The LUN becomes private when you add it to the reserved LUN pool. Since the LUNs in the reserved LUN pool are private LUNs, they cannot belong to storage groups and a server cannot perform I/O to them.Before starting a replication task, the reserved LUN pool must contain at least one LUN for...

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