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EMC RecoverPoint upgrade fails: Unable to distribute ISO file.

EMC RecoverPoint 3.5.1 to 4.0 P1 upgrade fails.

During RecoverPoint “Prepare for Upgrade” wizard the RP upgrade ISO file were uploaded to the RPA. The problem was that the file name did not contain the MD5 checksum in the file name, i.e. “rel4.0.SP2.P1_m.29_release_emc.iso“.

Note from EMC RecoverPointSE Upgrade Guide:

IMPORTANT For all options, the ISO […]

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 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): Unable to adopt a Shared Storage Service

I tried to adopt a Shared Storage Service but it failed with the following error message:

Discovery Validation failed. Reason: Storage Pools – %Pool_Name% need to be graded in UIM

I checked Storage Pool configuration and confirmed it has been graded correctly. In my environment there are two Vblocks that are managed by […]

EMC UIM Unified Infrastructure Manager/ Provisioning. Version 4.0 Patch 02

Hurray! EMC UIM 4.0 Patch 02 has been released! Lots of new features and bug fixes!

New features and changes Decommission of shared storage service

When using UIM 4.0 and UIM 4.0 Patch 01 to perform a full decommission of a shared storage service, VMs were correctly deleted from the shared storage service, however VMs […]

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 Service Adoption Utility (SAU)

The EMC® Ionix™ Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning Service Adoption Utility is used to adopt services on VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms that were not created using EMC® Ionix™ Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning (UIM/P). Once discovered, these services are adopted and managed by UIM/P. The Service Adoption Utility also is used to edit services and to generate reports summarising […]

HOW TO: Backup / Restore EMC UIM/P database, collect the logs.

Backup/Restore UIM/P database: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./backup.pl Would you like to back up your current data? [y/n] y Backing up database… Backing up files… Building backup image file… Backup file created: /opt/ionix-uim/data-image/backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz To restore this data file, type: restore.pl backup-image-4.0.0.0.314.CS.Sep-16-2013-14.04.tgz Collect UIM/P logs: uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # ./saveLogs.pl all adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/cflist.3.log (deflated 95%) adding: opt/ionix-uim/logs/ssh.log (stored 0%) {skipped} […]

EMC UIM Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning 4.0 Release

UIM/P Nimbus has been released as UIM/P v. 4.0 on the 15th of August 2013. I was waiting for the official announcement and the release code on the Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning page on support.emc.com but, as it turned out, version 4.0 will have its own support page: https://support.emc.com/products/28497_Unified-Infrastructure-Manager

The review of new features can be […]

EMC UIM/P (Nimbus) review

I have been a big fan of UIM/P for a long time. I blogged vastly on the subject and was pleased to receive an invitation to take part in new version of BETA (codename Nimbus) testing. I would like to thank EMC UIM/P team for the privilege and am looking forward to cooperate with them […]