My CLARiiON won’t delete a raid group
I was recently revamping the storage layout on a CX4 and needed to delete all the raid groups. I had already removed the LUNs from all storage pools and deleted Continue Reading…
Category: Storage
Installing/Upgrading EMC PowerPath/VE 5.9 for vSphere 5.5 support
This is actually fairly easy as far as upgrades go. If you already have a working install of some prior version of PowerPath/VE, you should not encounter any issues as Continue Reading…
Fixing a broken EMC ‘Storage Viewer’ vCenter plugin in vSphere/VMware
I recently had an issue where my “EMC VSI” tab disappeared in my vSphere Client on my vCenter server. I went to Home -> Solutions & Applications -> EMC and Continue Reading…
Connecting EMC NaviCLI to a Clariion CX4
This probably works from Unix too but in any case, I had to do the following to finally get navicli working from a Windows XP box (old due to EMC Continue Reading…
Mounting an Amazon S3 bucket into a CentOS 6 filesystem
Fortunately this is far easier to do on CentOS 6 than it is on CentOS 4. If you do need the CentOS 4 directions, those are located here. Prerequisites for Continue Reading…
S3FS rsync recommendations
When using an S3FS/FUSE-based filesystem on Linux to store data in Amazon S3, here’s a recommendation on the rsync command to use to push files up to it: This gives Continue Reading…