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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...

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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If you have a multihomed host and are running like :· IBM AIX,· HP-UX,· Linux,· Solaris,· VMware ESX Server (2.5.0 or later), or· Microsoft Windowsyou must create a parameter file for Navisphere Agent, named agentID.txtAbout the agentID.txt file:This file, agentID.txt (case sensitive), ensures that the Navisphere Agent binds to the correct HBA/NIC for registration and therefore registers the host with the correct storage system. The agentID.txt file must contain the following two lines:Line1: Fully-qualified hostname of the...

We have discussed about CLARiiON. How to create LUN,RAID Group etc. before I shold discuss about adding storage to host. I must discuss about Navisphere Host agent. This is most important service/daemon which runs on host and communicate with CLARiiON. Without Host agent you can not resgister host with storage group automatically. Then if you want register host with Navishere Host agent then you need to register manually.The Host Agent registers the server’s HBA (host bus adapter) with the attached storage system when the Agent...

You can change the storage system password in Navisphere Manager as follows:1. Open Navisphere Manager2. Click Tools > Security > Change Password.3. In the Change Password window, enter the old (current) password in the Old Password text box.4. Enter the new password in the New Password text box and then enter it again in the Confirm New Password text box.5. Click OK to apply the new password or Cancel to keep the current password.6. In the confirmation popup, click either Yes to change the password or No to cancel the...

I am going to demonstrate full LAB exercise of CLARiiON. If anybody interested to any specific LAB exercise please send me mail I will try to help and give LAB exercise. There are many exercise like:1) Create RAID Group2) Bind the LUN 3) Create Storage Group4) Register the Host5) Present LUN to Host6) Create Meta LUN etc.I will try to cover all the exercise including if you need anything extra exercise. Very Easy way to allocate the storage...