Category Archives: Dell EMC Elect

How to get a Brocade switch configured for Dell EMC SRS (ESRS)

Posted by on May 21, 2019 No comments

Perform a

esrsconfig -show

to check whether the settings are saved to te switch. If the switch shows this output:

fcsw-01:admin> esrsconfig –show

ESRS SERVER AND PRODUCT CONFIGURATION
=======================================

ESRS Server IP: 10.20.30.40
ESRS Server Port: 9443
Product Serial Number: BRCCCD1946R04G
Product Model Number: SWITCH-BROCADE-B-GW
Status: Device is not Managed by ESRS

ESRS is not yet active.

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How to match an Windows (HyperV) disk to a SAN attached disk using the wwn

Posted by on May 10, 2019 2 comments
Hard Drive

Where do I find the wwn of a disk in Windows / HyperV? That’s the question.

There are a number of identifiers to find out which LUN is which disk, but the only undeniably unique number to find out which disk is which LUN is by using the globally unique wwn number of a LUN. The question is: “where can I find the wwn of a disk in HyperV?”

The LUN number, as assigned by the storage array can be found by using diskpart:

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New Dell EMC Unity lineup: Unity XT 380F, 480F, 680F and 880F?

Posted by on April 25, 2019 2 comments

While looking for something totally different I stumbled on a few new Unity XT (?) model numbers.

On this dellemc.com website I spotted some Chinese publication on this new model.

[edit] The new and working website is now working: www.dellemc.com.

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Cisco MDS CLI commands when checking for defects or signal degradation

Posted by on April 9, 2019 No comments
Cisco MDS

Checking the environment of a switch:

  • show environment temp = what are the temperatures of the intake(s) and outlet(s)
  • show environment power = are the PSUs still working fine?
  • show environment fan = are the fans still working fine?

Checking for errors and signal degradation

  • show interface fc1/10 counters = show all standard counters for port fc1/10
  • show interface fc1/10 counters details = show the detailed counters for port fc1/10
  • show interface counters = show all standard counters for all ports
  • show interface detail-counters = show the detailed counters for all ports
  • show interface detail-counters | i CRC = show the detailed counters for all ports which contain the text “CRC”
  • show interface transceiver calibrations = show the specs of all SFPs
  • show interface transceiver details = show the specs and power details of all SFPs
  • show interface transceiver details | i “x Power” = show the current Rx/Tx power of all SFPs

Common knowledges dictates that fiber optice patches need to be cleaned with proper equipment to prevent unnecessary signal loss. See this blog post for more details on how and why to keep optic cables clean.

How to enable a replica-LUN on Unity

Posted by on February 21, 2019 No comments
EMC Unity

LUN-replication on Unity works slightly different than it previously did on VNX or even Clariion. In these older generations, when you deleted the mirrorview Mirror Group, both the primary and secondary LUNs became usable as separate entities.

In Unity the secondary LUN is a different beast. First of all: in Unity you can only set up replication from the primary Unity/LUN. The process on the source-Unity will create a LUN-replica and a replication session on both Unitys.

But what happens when you need hosts to access the secondary LUN? A failover works as designed and the previous secondary LUN becomes writable, but when you break the replication session, the replica-LUN has a flag that needs to be reset, but you’ll need the CLI to do that. This is how I did it:

  • In Unisphere I listed all LUNs and I made sure to include the “CLI ID” column
  • I noticed the ID of the LUN I need to grant access to is “res_56”
  • I started PUTTY and made sure logging to a file was configured so I could easily browse / search the possibly large amount of data some commands can produce, especially “-detail” commands tend to be very explicit
  • Log in as the “service” user to the Unity command line

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