Symmetrix Meta LUN reporting Perl script
This afternoon I was checking out my thin pool statistics when I noticed one of the pools had a significantly higher allocation usage than I was expecting. I started digging into my documentation (I...
View ArticleReporting Symmetrix Tier Usage by Storage Group
Someone on the Symmetrix Support Forums on the EMC Community Network was asking for a way to report on Tier Usage by Storage Group. That’s pretty simple and easy to see with the following command:...
View ArticleSymmetrix FAST Tracking and Trending
We recently turned on FAST on one of our EMC VMAX arrays and I was curious as to how much data was moving. I didn’t have an easy way to see what percentage of data changes from day to day, let alone...
View ArticleSymmetrix LUN Reporting
I was browsing the ECN Symmetrix Forum when I ran across this post where someone was asking for a summary of capacity allocated to each storage group – something you can easily get with ControlCenter...
View ArticleFinding Symmetrix meta devices which are no longer needed
Recently I was working with a buddy who was trying to find out what devices they has on a EMC VMAX which were created but not in a storage group. He was using SMC to do a whole lot of clicking on each...
View ArticleRedefining Oracle Backup with EMC ProtectPoint
Today EMC has released more information about something shown at EMC World called EMC ProtectPoint. This new data protection offering brings direct backup from the VMAX3 to DataDomain. In today’s...
View ArticleFast and Non-Intrusive Data Protection with EMC ProtectPoint
At Mega Launch this year EMC announce a product called ProtectPoint which stands ready to change the way we think about backups in the datacenter. With modern data protection solutions we struggle to...
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