This article outlines the steps required to replace Host
Bus Adapter (HBA) cards on servers. In this example, the technologies involved are
brocade fabric switch, Windows server/ VMware ESXi server and HP 3PAR storage
but the same steps can be applied to other vendor technologies like Cisco MDS
switch, EMC storage, Hyper-V host, IBM SAN etc…
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How to Configure Hot Spare Disks on VNX Systems?
The drives which are used to build failed drives data is called Hot Spare drives. These hot sparing drives should be compatible with the failed drives.
From VNX OE for Block 5.33, any unbound drive can be considered
as spare. EMC recommends configuring hot spare policy to spare 1 per 30 disks.
The following steps outline the steps to configure Hot Sparing
on EMC VNX systems.
What can I do with EMC VSI on vSphere?
EMC VSI (Virtual Storage Integrator)
is vCenter plug-in to perform EMC storage-related activities from vSphere
client/ WebClient.
As per EMC, VSI is "No-charge VMware vCenter plug-in available to all VMware users with EMC storage in their environments. VSI enables IT organizations to achieve simplicity and efficiency in data center operations. VSI dramatically simplifies management of virtualized storage with the ability to map virtual machines to storage and to self-provision storage across EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC VNX and EMC XtremIO families of storage platforms from VMware vCenter"
Following activities can be performed using EMC VSI on
VMware vSphere.
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