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UIM/P with VMAX – unable to expand striped meta volumes

Currently UIM/P is unable to expand striped metavolumes on EMC VMAX.

If you try to expand stripped metavolume, you get the following error message:

Why is it not supported by UIM? Simple answer is because it’s quite complicated procedure. But nevertheless it is supported by EMC. Expanding striped metavolume requires the use of a […]

EMC UIM: Mapping data failed, Failed to associate storage volume

EMC UIM v 4.0 Patch 2

During datastore provisioning EMC UIM created a LUN but did not add it to any of the Storage Groups and failed with “Mapping data failed” error:

Mapping data failed

Failed to associate storage volume

* Unable to push to device

* Unspecified Error. [ManagedObject] Action completed with a warning… […]

EMC VNXe upgrade failed: Extracting the image on peer SP

Array: EMC VNXe 3100 Current version – 2.4.0.20932 Candidate version – 2.4.1.21171

EMC VNXe firmware upgrade failed at 15% with the following error message:

“Software Update failed: Extracting the image on peer SP The following error(s) caused the software upgrade to fail:

The upgrade has failed. Try rebooting the Storage Processor (SPA) and […]

EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU): Adopting a Shared Storage Service

This is the second article about EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU) and takes you through the adoption of Shared Storage Service. For Standard Service adoption please refer to “EMC UIM Service Adoption Utility (SAU)” article.

EMC UIM 4.0 introduced a new type of service – Shared Storage Service. This type of service allows you […]

EMC UIM/P and Thick LUNs

EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager for Provisioning is a great product! It saves you a lot of time and helps you to automate a lot of tasks. The product has been in constant development and starting from v 3.0 finally became a product you would use on a regular basis. The upcoming new version of UIM/P […]

Release of EMC RecoverPoint 4.0

Product description

The EMC RecoverPoint product family provides a comprehensive data protection solution for enterprise and commercial customers, providing integrated continuous data protection and continuous remote replication to recover applications to any point in time.

RecoverPoint systems enable reliable replication locally with one RPA cluster, and over any distance to up to four remote RPA […]

EMC Exam Voucher / Promo Code: 50% Off Exam Fees

UPDATE: The following information and the discount voucher was available during EMC World 2013 and is not longer valid. Please check the Comments: http://www.vstrong.info/2013/04/26/emc-exam-voucher-promo-code-50-off-exam-fees/#comments or EMC Proven Professional community https://community.emc.com/community/connect/emcpp for any current promotions.

EMC Education Services is offering a limited-time, globally available discount on exam fees in conjunction with EMC World 2013.

Starting on […]

EMC VNX systems with iSCSI-attached hosts may have a storage processor (SP) reboot after 248 days of runtime.

Not so long ago we experienced a very strange outage on our old EMC VNX 5300. All NFS shares went down and the following alerts were present in Unisphere:

Data Mover failed over to standby:

EMC responded to ESRS alert and after short investigation, advised that both Storage Processors rebooted themselves as per […]

“Error: Invalid port or Certificate” appears in the RecoverPoint Management Console when adding vCenter Server

After RecoverPoint upgrade, both vCenters were not available in the RecoverPoint Management Console. When I tried to re-add vCenter, it failed with the error message “Operation Failed. Error: Invalid port or Certificate“.

I checked the user can access vCenter and the account is not locked out etc. If I remember correctly, it was not necessary […]

HOW TO: Reset / Unlock EMC RecoverPoint admin password

EMC RecoverPoint might not be the equipment you login to every day and, unless you have meticulously documented RecoverPoint installation and config, you may find yourself in a situation when you cannot login to RecoverPoint. What if you 100% sure that the password you use is correct but it still does not work?

Well, […]