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How do I grab data analyzer files from EMC storage...

April 23rd, 2010 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

Every now and then I get errors when trying to download our statistics from running the navi analyzer. The error we receive is: IO exception thrown when retrieve articles from array client

In order to remedy this, you can use naviseccli to grab the files from the storage processors.

To download naviseccli:

  1. login to your powerlink account, software and downloads
  2. Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads J-O > Navisphere Server Software
  3. Then locate: Navisphere Secure CLI (your operating system) 6.29.5.0.66 (will be the latest version).

Once it is installed, go to a command prompt and type:

C:\Program Files\EMC\Navisphere CLI>naviseccli -h 192.168.0.1 -User admin -Password pass1234 -Scope 0 analyzer -archive -path c:\temp2

naviseccli -h IP_Address_SP -username -password -scope <0|1> analyzer -list — lists all archives stored on the array

naviseccli -h IP_Address_SP -username -password -scope <0|1> analyzer -all — lretrieves all archives stored on the array

naviseccli -h IP_Address_SP -username -password -scope <0|1> analyzer -path — allows you to select one of more of the listed archives to download to the location

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EMC’s VMHeat Grabs…. and what to do with them.

April 12th, 2010 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

Anytime I think about upgrading our ESX environment (we are currently on 3.5.x) I always run a vmheat grab and ensure that I have all existing firmware for our particular server(s) documented.  Oh, and it helps to have a test server running the same code as the rest of your hosts…  For all intensive purposes I generally perform the following:

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Want to check out to see if your EMC CX / AX is tr...

April 8th, 2010 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

Sometimes when a disk fails on your EMC equipment you’d like to go know long the wonderful T is going to remain there. The GUI provides little insight on the actual percentage of the disk rebuild to your hot spare drive. This little command has come in quite handy while waiting for those big old 1 TB drives to build.

Step 1. Launch your navicli

Step 2. Run the following command:

navicli -h ip.spaorb -getdisk 0_5_12 -rb

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Getting r1soft datastores to work after a failure....

April 7th, 2010 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

As you may or may not know r1soft makes one of the best pieces of DR/backup software out there. I’m a big fan, as it’s saved our hides countless times from all the hackers, and of course the system failures that occur time to time.  r1soft does indicate that you cannot move disksafes around to other servers, but I have found a workaround for it to be only used in a DR scenario.

Step 1.  Build a new server (for this purpose I used the latest Centos build) and configured it as per our standard installation procedures.

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VMWare View 4 released!

November 9th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

This is fantastic. Time to get off my butt and get back to blogging.

Check out the VMWare View 4 Evaluators Guide!

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View4-Evaluators-Guide.pdf

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November 9th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

So what do you get when you have an HP C7000 Chassis, 2 brocade switches and a EMC AX4-5 Clarrion, or CX4-120 and some VMWare licenses floating around…. Yeah that’s right!  A big headache.. or maybe a chance to do something really cool! I’m going to attempt and write one section at a time for a total of 4 sections. Ok, so you’ve bought all this equipment or are maybe thinking about it… but you aren’t sure where to go from there?  Well let’s take a look at some visuals and walk through the process.  As for my given situation, we needed a solution for some of our major hub site here at work that were maxed out on power, switch ports, heat issues in the data center, and had ailing hardware (gateway….long story).  Sure, you’re thinking a quick fix right?  Throw the gateway servers out the door and buy some robust HP / Dell computers?  Yeah, that sounded like a reasonable idea to me as well!  But, we had a budgetary constraints, and a slough of other layer 7 (management) factors that I won’t even get into…  Regardless, in our case we decided to go with VMWare and virtualize our servers… Sounds cool, huh?  You betcha!  It’s pretty l33t technology and I can’t get enough of it.. everyday I swear I learn something new.  So down to the first order of business, where do we begin?

Well, luckily VMWare has a handy dandy little consolidation tool that comes built-in with VirtualCenter.  We used that tool in our environment to analzye all of our physical servers.  When that was said and done, we had close to 110 servers that were canidates for virtualization.  After a lengthy battle to win-over our finance team, we were awarded some money to build our environment.  This quick tutorial will be broken down into the following configurations:  go through setting up a HP C7000, configuratin

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VMWare View 3.1.1 is releated!!

July 13th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

Check it out! I’m going to upgrade hopefully later this week and see what’s improved.

http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/er.aspx?s=524&lid=6887&elq=6C4F2094751545CD89E12D649DDC99D1

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VMWare View 3.1!

May 27th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received No Comments »

Here are the official release notes.

VMware View Manager 3.1 Release Notes

View Manager Version 3.1 | 27 MAY 2009 | Build 167577 (View Manager), 161885 (View Composer)
Last Document Update: 27 MAY 2009

Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

These release notes cover the following topics:

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VMWare View Cosmetic Changes

April 20th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received 4 Comments »

The vanilla view portal is nice and all but I wanted to add some flavor to it.  In our set-up we have external security connection servers and internal connection servers.  First off, let’s have a look at the splash page to see what’s available… Using my unsupported client I launched Firefox along with FireBug (a great web development tool, if you don’t have this one installed already) and started to inspect the splash page layout.  After looking through the code for awhile, it appears to have some xhtml / css / and graphic files in two different directories.  These directories consist of:

C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\admin\images\

C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\sslgateway\conf\docroot\error

C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\

So lets get down to business!  First and foremost make a backup copy of the folders listed above……… OK.  Moving onwards.  Let’s change the VMWARE logo to reflect our corporate logo.

  1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\VNware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ styles\default\ and open the file banner_title_v_portal.gif with your favorite editor.  I like to use GIMP (open-source) or Photoshop (commerical/retail) products depending on what you need to do.  Alternatively, you can always use good old paint (if you’re using a Windows pc of course).
  2. Modify the graphic as you see fit and save it replacing the default picture.
  3. To change the logo navigate to  C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ styles\default\ and edit the file banner_logo.gif
  4. Lastly, there’s one last image located on the top left corner, this file is in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\ and is named banner_vmware.gif.
  5. Let’s go ahead and change the Title of the Page, this can be found via:  C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\styles\default\. The file you want to open with textpad,notepad,wordpad is:  style.css.
  6. To change the graphic file (the .ico) replace favicon.ico located in directory  C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\ with a modified .ico of your chosing.
  7. Server\broker\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\web.xml holds all the data

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VMWorld Registration is now open for San Francisco...

April 14th, 2009 by Nick Ohanian received 1 Comment »

Sweet, I can’t wait to go to good ole’ San Francisco!  Nothing like the Moscone Center in San Fran.  August 31st-Sept 3rd.

Here’s the link:

VMWorld

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