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Archive for April, 2010


How do I grab data analyzer files from EMC storage when the GUI complains of errors?

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

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:

login to your powerlink [...]

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

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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 [...]

Want to check out to see if your EMC CX / AX is transitioning?

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

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 [...]

Getting r1soft datastores to work after a failure. (linux only)

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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 [...]