Category Archives: EMC
EMC Bootcamp Notes – Solution Based Selling – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = lots of integration/work/blood/sweat/tears from EMC into anything and everything VMware – highlighted across all my different posts on the EMC Bootcamp. Note: as always, these are my notes from what was on the screen, what was said, and my own thoughts. Session with Tommy Trogden – Solutions-based selling. Random notes basically… Consultative selling [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – General Avamar & vCloud Director+Avamar – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = good core Avamar info and some interesting details/thoughts around how to protect vCD with Avamar. Love Avamar’s dedup rates as always. Phil George (EMC BRS) – Core Avamar with VMware Walkthrough Core Avamar value stuff with VMware (big stuff but core) – VADP+CBT integration, vSphere 5, Image-level/Guest-level, etc. Proxy VMs to handle backup [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – vCenter Operations & EMC – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = I’m already very excited about vCOPs and have multiple customers using it. Seeing the mass of additional data points we can now pull in from the storage array excites me even more. Matt Cowger – vCenter Operations and EMC Stuff VMAX Adapter It works! Go to config tab and add adapter. See front [...]
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EMC Bootcamp Notes – Stretched Cluster Discussion by Scott Lowe – VMware Partner Exchange
Summary = high-energy walkthrough by Scott Lowe around the promise of stretched clusters, the high level details (part 1 below), and the low level details (part 2). Fantastic run-through of a fascinating subject (fascinating to me at least as I’m actively having SRM + VPLEX discussions with customers). Scott Lowe – Stretched Cluster Discussion Part [...]
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Laying out VNX FAST VP storage pools
One of the questions I run into a lot pertains to EMC VNX FAST VP storage pools, particularly with VMware. Now that we have all these layers of abstraction (the sub-LUN tiering in FAST VP, the I/O improvements of FAST Cache, then on top of that the I/O aggregation from VMware datastores with many VMs, [...]
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First Varrow Madness 2012 Commercial!
We rolled out the first Varrow Madness 2012 commercial the other day. I give our marketing department a hard time but they are really great at what they do. How many other VARs put on an event like this (hint: NONE)? Then how many try to have as much fun with it as we do [...]
EMC Technical Advisory: EMC282741: CLARiiON and VNX: Managing dual solid state drive (SSD) issues
There has been a technical advisory floating around that deserves a little more attention. First...
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How-To Generate and Collect NAR Data from VNX Arrays
Login to the Unisphere console Select the array you want to collect data from Click on the “System” tab, then click on “Monitoring and Alerts” Click on “Statistics for Block” Click on “Performance Data Logging” A “Data Logging” windows will appear. Configure the settings to match the screenshot below. Leave the “Archive Interval” set to [...]
How-To Generate SP Collect Data from Unisphere
Many times you may be asked to provide “SP Collects” for your EMC Array. This may be for EMC Support or for your VAR, who may need to see how your existing array is configured. Either way SP Collect data is very useful and relatively easy to generate. With the release of Unisphere for EMC [...]
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VNX OE update released this week, I’m optimistic
As reported by EMC uber-blogger Chad Sakac, EMC has released a VNX OE update this week. This finally includes some things that I’ve been waiting for, things that would have been in the original VNX release in my perfect world. These are things that have been causing me some pain since we started installing the first [...]
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Why we chose EMC
We have been leveraging videos with the sales folks quite a bit to stay crisp on our product knowledge and messaging. We focus on differentiation, making sure that what we are saying about our company or the products we sell is not an "inser...
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Why we chose EMC
We have been leveraging videos with the sales folks quite a bit to stay crisp on our product knowledge and messaging. We focus on differentiation, making sure that what we are saying about our company or the products we sell is not an "inser...
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VNXe Deduplication and Compression
I had to do some digging recently to get some technical details on the deduplication technology imbedded in the EMC VNXe arrays so I thought I’d share it. Summary The file-level dedup on the new VNX arrays is only for Shared Folders and NFS datastores. This deduplication is policy driven and utilizes both file deduplication (single instancing) [...]
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EMC VNXe Replication Wizard issue and workaround