EMC and endless stupid passwords
Just installed an EMC XtremIO v3 box, and yes, between it and the EMC VSI for VMware web client plugin, since they’ve screwed people who use the thick client, we Continue Reading…
Category: Storage
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…
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…