Data Storage

SHUTTING DOWN A 3PAR

I recently did the power down of a datacentre containing a 3PAR and wanted to quickly cover off the steps that I followed to power off and then back on. First of all I did a health check to check for any issues such as a failed disk: 3PAR1% checkhealth Checking alert Checking cabling Checking… Okumaya devam et SHUTTING DOWN A 3PAR

Data Storage

EMC isilon Troubleshooting Commands

Troubleshooting Commands Here are some some useful Isilon commands to assist you in troubleshooting Isilon storage array issues. Grep the log for stalled drives on the isilon cluster      cat /var/log/messages |grep -o ‘stalled: [0-9,*:]*’|sort |uniq -c (Stalled drives are bad, and can cause cluster problems. you could also run this command on the individual nodes /var/log/restripe.log… Okumaya devam et EMC isilon Troubleshooting Commands

Data Storage

symaccess commands

symaccess commands Specifically using for Vmax Allocation to do various operations on Masking view and related Groups. symaccess -sid 1234 -f MyBackup.txt backup Creates a file MyBackup containing all the group and view information currently on the Symmetrix array 1234 symaccess -sid 1234 -f MyBackup.txt restore Restores all the group symaccess -sid 1234 -f Total_views… Okumaya devam et symaccess commands

Data Storage

EMC VNXe – Shutdown Procedure

Shutdown via UNISPHERE using the Service Account EMC VNXe – Shutdown Procedure | David Ring Please read all notes provided in the ‘More Information..’ section highlighted in the above image before proceeding with shutdown. Shutdown process as documented in the ‘More Information..’ section: 1. From Unisphere, select Settings > Service System. 2. Enter the Service… Okumaya devam et EMC VNXe – Shutdown Procedure