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HOW TO: Upgrade VNXe firmware

These instructions have been performed on EMC VNXe 3100 but should also be applicable to EMC VNXe 3150 and 3300.

Login to VNXe Unisphere; Settings > More Configuration… > Update Software; Click on Obtain Candidate Version Online, you will be redirected to EMC Online Support website where you can download VNXe Operating Environment firmware file […]

HOW TO: Add new VMware vSphere ISO image to UIM/P

These instructions are valid for EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager / Provisioning (UIM/P) v3.0, Build 3.0.0.0.530.

UPDATE: EMC UIM/P 4.1 introduced support for Linux installation. Please refer to Add/Remove ISO images in EMC UIM/P 4.1 for details of the updated procedure.

When you try to create a New Service Offering you will only be able to […]

HOW TO: Configure EMC VNX Control Station and DataMovers to use a NTP Server

Open EMC Unisphere and login with your sysadmin account.

Navigate to Home, from drop down menu select ‘All Systems’ and then click on ‘Domains’:

Click on ‘Configure NTP’ Click OK on ‘NTP time synchronization will override manual clock settings. NTP is applied to the Local Domain only.’

Tick ‘Enable NTP’ and select time […]

EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) firewall configuration

OK, you have been tasked to configure firewall to allow ESRS server(s) to connect to EMC servers. Here is the diagram for you:

Any firewall admin, of course, will not be happy to open ports 443 and 8443 to all servers on the Internet. OK, here is the list of EMC servers’ host names, […]

HOW TO: Restart Unisphere Management Server

Restarting the Management Services should clear up any Unisphere UI issues or any discrepancies between Unisphere UI and Unisphere CLI.

Restarting the Management Services is a non disruptive task and can be perform without a downtime.

Note: This procedure must be performed on both Storage Processors to be effective!

Open a web browser and go […]

Uninstall EMC ESRS-IP Policy Manager from a Windows Server 2008

Here is what you need to perform clean uninstall of EMC ESRS-IP Policy Manager from a Windows Server 2008:

Uninstall EMC ESRS-IP Policy Manager from Control PanelPrograms and Features; Open regedit.exe and delete these two keys in their entirety: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesESRS2PS HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesOpenDS Reboot the server; Delete <install_drive>:EMCESRSPolicy Manager folder