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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 […]

EMC UIM/P: Server Provisioning failed: Could not create zones.

EMC UIM/P server provisioning failed with the following error message:

This error message is not a problem with UIM/P (Come on! Stop blaming UIM for everything!), it is Cisco MDS SAN switch “Enhanced zoning” feature.

Enhanced zoning uses a session locking facility like CFS to prevent simultaneous zoning configuration changes by two users on […]

EMC UIM/P: OS image is not available after upgrade

I discovered another post-upgrade problem with UIM/P. I could not select OS image when configuring a new Service Offering in UIM/P.

UIM/P 3.2: UIM/P 4.0 BETA (Nimbus): When you click on ‘Enable Connection’ the following error messages displayed:

The passphrase used in both of the following files did not match, causing the password failure for […]

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 […]

“Using EMC Ionix UIM” weekly series

Topic: “Using UIM Demo Series” weekly series Date: Every Wednesday, from Wednesday, 17 April 2013 to Wednesday, 8 January 2014 Time: 8:00 AM PDT (America/Los Angeles) / 16:00, GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00) Meeting Number: 685 169 138 Meeting Password: ChangeIt!@34

Description

This series is designed to give UIM users deep dive of UIM functionality […]

HOW TO: Decommission and delete Service Offering in EMC Ionix UIM/P

Login to UIM/P management interface as sysadmin; Navigate to ‘Service Manager’ and highlight the service you would like to decommission or delete; Click ‘Deactivate’ and select servers you would like to remove from the service or select ALL, click on Deactivate; The servers will be powered off, Service Profile and vNIC(s) de-activated:

VEXC101, […]

“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 EMC UIM/P sysadmin or root password

By default, the password for EMC UIM/P sysadmin account is ‘sysadmin‘.

If, for whatever reason, it does not work, ssh or login to the console as root and reset sysadmin password:

login as: root Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: Last login: Wed Feb 20 18:42:28 2013 uim001:~ # cd /opt/ionix-uim/tools uim001:/opt/ionix-uim/tools # perl password-change.pl +========================================================+ […]