Stephen commented about Tuning Manager and doing something useful with the data. I thought I would use this as an opportunity to highlight some of the things I look at on a regular basis (almost daily, including today in fact). Part I – Write Pending.
First a little bit of background; Write Pending [...]
I’m not quite sure what the right way is to respond to posts; If I comment after them, then there’s a chance that the responses might be missed. Anyway I will attempt to go back and check all those comments I’ve not responded to. First, here’s a response to Cedric’s question, on [...]
How do you replace your hardware? I’ve always thought a sound technology replacement lifecycle is essential. Brand new arrays are great. You can’t wait to get them in and start using the hardware and before you know it, they are starting to fill up. If you didn’t order a fully populated array (and if we [...]
More constructive Device Manager issues are posted here: Device Manager Issues.
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Has anyone tried to use the HiCommand database transfer command (hcmdsdbtrans)? You can use it to export the contents of a database for later re-importation.
I’ve been looking at it as a way to get a Device Manager test environment, or to get a configuration between sites where there’s no IP connectivity. The command produces [...]
As VTL has pictured recently, I thought I’d make that the subject of the next poll. It should be up on the right-hand side bar now.
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I’ve closed the USP poll and the results are as follows;
It rocks! What a great DMX basher! 30% It’s OK, some of the new features seem useful. 15% It looks like just like the old USP but slightly faster 40% I don’t see what all the fuss is about… 10% What’s a USP-V? 5% [...]
EMC recently announced the release of ECC (ControlCenter) version 6.0. This version finally meets customer demands for VMware support (which despite the fact EMC own VMware is a long time coming) plus a whole host of other enhanced reporting.
I did a lot of work recently on virtualisation of storage tools using [...]
A while back, I commented on how CCI was a pain in the proverbial **** because specifying the replicated LUNs required them to be presented onto a port/HSD. Snig kindly pointed out that although the LDEV needs to be presented, you can now just use the LDEV number rather than the complicated [...]
Quite a while back, I posted on the Green Datacentre. Actually, the post was over a year ago and datacentre power and cooling issues have become a really hot (sic) issue.
However, I have to castigate myself severely for not Reading the Flaming Manual. In particular the power demands of the Cisco [...]
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