hpux-admins: This is not a technical question. But I think that this is a good forum for asking about this. A major metal-mining and manufacturing company,...
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Feb 3, 2004 3:36 pm
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Read a couple articles on this kind of event. Seems it is the going trend. My feelings, they will do this and companies will experience the issues that not...
Rita Workman
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Feb 3, 2004 4:44 pm
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hpux-admins: emc_list: Thanks to all who responded. Here are some web-site references I got: http://www.techsunite.org/ <http://www.techsunite.org/> ...
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Feb 4, 2004 10:12 pm
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Re: [HPADM]: Survey: Outsource Unix System Admin OffshoreThere is an article in wired magazine that talks about outsourcing. Thought it would be interesting to...
A.Kamalov
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Feb 4, 2004 11:10 pm
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Good Day All, I have an 8430 Sym5 that is configured RAID 1 and Control Center 4.3. Is there a way to determine if a volume is M1(primary) or M2(mirrored...
Naylor, Jim
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Feb 5, 2004 3:13 pm
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Jim: You can do it from Control Center, and from symdev show DEV: 1. # symdev show DEV: # symdev show 019 | grep Director Front Director Paths (3): Back End...
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Feb 5, 2004 3:49 pm
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Jim: Why do you care? Stuart Stuart Abramson | WABTEC Corp. | Wilmerding, PA Off: 412/825-1434 | Cell: 412/417-1567 | email: sabramson@... ... ...
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Feb 5, 2004 3:50 pm
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Stuart, I have a spreadsheet that I made up years ago that is a logical layout of the Physical/Logical disks of the sym. I record on this sheet the volume ...
Naylor, Jim
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Feb 5, 2004 4:33 pm
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Jim: I think I said Front-end adapters. I meant to say "Back-end directors". You figured it out. Stuart Stuart Abramson | WABTEC Corp. | Wilmerding, PA Off:...
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Feb 5, 2004 4:47 pm
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Hi Folks, We finally got the 3930 up and running. Now for the fun part. What we'd like to do is setup a number of SQL Servers (8 to start with) with their DB...
I think your zoning and lun masking will keep that from happening. ... From: lware92606 [mailto:emc@...] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 11:23 AM To:...
Also, instead of a "hot standby" why not looking a clustering SQL. You should also look at splitting your DB and TLOGS onto different Meta devices for better...
Hello guys, I read this group and found it very useful for me. I have got one question for EMC gurus here : I have to look after EMC SYM 8430 platform that has...
Slava: Here's the beginning of mine, also an 8430: # symdisk list Symmetrix ID : 000184500XXX Disks Selected : 96 Capacity(MB) ...
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Feb 9, 2004 2:13 pm
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Stuart, thanks a lot for your answer! Actually you posting has raised few more questions from my side ;-) I hope you could clarify it for me.. 1) If I issue...
Slava: I think that you have exhausted my knowledge on this subject. The symconfigure command doesn't allow Disk Address it just says: create dev count="n",...
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Feb 9, 2004 3:16 pm
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Stuart, thank you for your help! I do have EMC support contract and access to EMC's Powerlink - so no need to send documentation. Thank you anyway! I will run...
Slava: For performance (and reliability) reasons you want to separate mirrored pairs on different DA-s. EMC recommends a "rule of 17". This applies other...
SAbramson@...
Feb 10, 2004 1:10 pm
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I don't think you have control of the backend layout of the mirrored pairs, the microcode will take care of the rule of 17, or whatever the backend rule of...
Kochanski, Mark A
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Feb 10, 2004 1:29 pm
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thanks guys! I think I learned something here ;-) At least one more rule to follow.. I still hadn't have time to call EMC, though I tried to run "symconfigure...
How about putting this in a loop, that way it would continue to check until is confirms ... symmir -g <dev_grp> -synched -i 60 -c 180 verify Just a thought, ...
Rita Workman
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Feb 17, 2004 1:13 pm
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Stuart, We use symmir -g <groupname> query or symrdf -g <groupname> query This will give you total tracks and MB's to sync before it is sync'd. We have our...
Thanks guys - we have looked at clustering, in fact we run it for our other applications. But for this particular app we have 10+ DB servers and the cost of...
We run "EMC Volume Logix" to do LUN Masking to HBAs. They may call it ESN Manager or SAN Manager now. LUN Masking is essential to operating a SAN. Be careful...
SAbramson@...
Feb 23, 2004 2:03 pm
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In regards to zoning, I think the best practice is to have one HBA per zone. I think this best practice is suggested by all the storage and switch vendors....
Kochanski, Mark A
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Feb 23, 2004 3:28 pm
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I agree. One zone per HBA. WWN zoning. The individual zones all become part of the active zone set. Stuart Stuart Abramson | WABTEC Corp. | Wilmerding, PA ...
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Feb 23, 2004 3:30 pm
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hi all Anyone has SAN Management student course, please let me know, I can trade it, thanks. Regards Tom __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...