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Questions tagged [clariion]

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What trouble will I have when running a SAN past its support lifetime?

We are replacing a Clariion CX320 SAN because it is old (7.5 years). It has been otherwise very reliable. Yes, we have replaced a lot of disks, battery modules, and maybe even one of the controllers, but the failure rate is not very high -- maybe…
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Set up DPM to use hardware VSS Provider with EMC Clariion SAN

We recently purchased an EMC Clariion AX4 SAN and we're using it to provide storage for our Hyper-V virtual machines. I've already got the servers registered with it and configured the failover cluster CSV's, etc. I'm wanting to figure out what I…
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Linux not picking up new partition correctly on emc pseudo device

We have a database server running oracle rac. We were recently running out of space on the main LUN that it is attached to. I created a new 100GB LUN and concatenated this onto the existing LUN creating a new MetaLUN. After some messing I managed to…
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EMC Clariion metalun "expansion"

I have metaluns stripped across 6 raid groups of 4+1 (2 DAE's) and I would like to add another DAE. I will create another 3 raid groups on this new DAE and would like the metaluns to be stripped across all 9 raid groups without having to migrate any…
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How do you find the usable storage space

How do I calculate the "Total Usable Storage Size" in clariion -Cx3 20C (I'm little confused here on how to proceed with the calculation)? I have the raw storage size from the disk summary (included the hot spare).I know the used storage size…
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How to register server HBAs to an EMC Clariion storage system

I have just attached a Solaris box (an old Enterprise 420R) to a Clariion storage array via an Emulex HBA but the Navisphere software is only seeing the system via a hexadecimal reference ID not by the agent's hostname. When trying to assign…
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Backup Strategy for array configurations

Are there any backup strategies for array configurations for Clariion, Cellera, Centera, and Symmetrix?
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using EMC branded disk array with Dell/EMC branded CX3-20 head unit

Are there any problems or gotchas with using an EMC branded DAE3P with a Dell/EMC branded Clariion SAN? Obviously getting support for the array would be problematic, but other than that is there anything I should know?
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Changing IP address of a host in Navisphere 6 (EMC array)

We have a EMC CX4-120 array and manage it using Navisphere 6 web interface. Some time in the past we have registered all the HBA of 5 different hosts. Now, we need to change the ip addresses of these hosts. Is there a way of changing the IP…
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How to change / replace a failed "system" disk on EMC Clariion CX500?

On the first DAE, the first 5 disks are considered "special" because they host the OS of the storage array. One of those 5 disks is faulty : what is the procedure to change it? By the way, what kind of RAID configuration is set up on those?
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Clariion CX300: Removing system disks from a RAID group?

I have a raid group that includes every disk my DPE2. I want to remove the system disks (0-4) from this RAID group. From what I read I should i put them in their own RAID group and avoid storing user data on them if possible. Will destroying this…
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How to enable hardware VSS backups on a Clariion AX4-5i array?

I have a Hyper-V (2008 R2) cluster connected to a Clariion AX4-5i storage array (via iSCSI). The virtual machines are backed up using System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 running on a different physical server. I'd like to use hardware VSS…
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What could be the best practice while allocating so that I/O performance is high

I have a question on planning. Recently, I got a request to create 2 625GB Luns (clariion cx-240), FC Connected, to ESX server 4.0 (four new hosts). I don't know the application they would be running. However, I only had option to carve luns from…
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how do in attach a new host to the clariion

I 'm a newbie so need lil help on the basics. I have a new win 2003 server,I need to attach the host to my clariion Cx 700 box. Can some body walk me through the step by step procedures. I will appreciate your quick response. Note: ( I know how to…
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clariion troubleshooting

First of all thanks to Sim and Quack for the response ( sorry, I frittered a little as I 'm a newbie here) .Hence I 'm editing it and making it more clariion oriented . Secondly, I 've a question ... If one of the HBAs in the server is not visible…
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