EMC Access Logix ,LUN masking and Storage Groups

Access Logix Access Logix is a storage system-based licensed software. This feature lets you enable data access and create storage groups on shared storage systems. This software runs on each storage processor. Access Logix functionality LUN masking – it is an  process that makes a LUN available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts. I describe […]

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Create a LUN in EMC VNX

Create a LUN First you have to log in to EMC Unisphere and choose the VNX array you wish to work with. Once it’s done, go to the top menu and select a Storage section, choose LUN Once you choose the option you should see list of all your LUNs already created and at the bottom of the […]

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Create a Storage Group in EMC VNX

To Create a Storage Group simply go to Host > Storage Group section. Click Create and all you have to give is a name: I have created the Storage Group called new_SG. Once you hit OK you will be prompted with question to confirm the creation of group . As you can see, the job status is success and we can […]

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Connect a Host to EMC VNX

Here are explaining about how we can register the host manually to EMC VNX storage system. Note: If the host is not powered on ,we will not see it in our hosts available. Most scenario host would be probably first connected and either auto-registered with Host Agent or Unisphere Server Utility (or similar software), or we would […]

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Create snapshot – EMC VNX

Creating a snapshot does not consume any pool space. The space starts being used when new writes to the primary LUN or to the snapshot itself arrive. Snapshots have a granularity of 8 KB, and their blocks are tracked just like the blocks in thin LUNs. Every snapshot must have a primary LUN, and that property never changes.A primary […]

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Snapshots – EMC VNX

VNX Snapshots is a feature introduced in VNX for Block OE Release 32. It was created to improve on the existing SnapView Snapshot functionality by better integrating with pools. In fact, VNX Snapshots can only be used with pool LUNs.LUNs that are created on physical RAID groups, also called Classic LUNs,support only SnapView Snapshots. This restriction […]

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EMC Unisphere Overview

We already shared a post about Unisphere , how to use Unisphere . Here i want to share more  , how you can start working with EMC Unisphere. Launch Unisphere As I mentioned in my previous post, easiest way to launch is to fire up and Internet Browser and type the IP address of Control Station. When […]

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