I’ve noticed that I have been getting a lot of search engine hits relating to the various features, specifications and problems on the EMC CLARiiON array. One of the searches was related to a feature that has been around for a bit. It was actually introduced in 2001, but in order to give a full … [Read more...]
EMC Clariion Systems: Global Hot Spares & Proactive Hot Spares
August 3, 2009 by 2 Comments
The concept of Global Hot Spares has been supported in Clariion environments since the first generation of FC & CX platforms. Now the technology has been extended into the CX3 and then the CX4 platforms. The primary purpose of global hot sparing is to protect the system against disk drive … [Read more...]
EMC Clariion RAID-6 requirements and limitations
July 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Here are some requirements and limitations related to using the RAID-6 technology on the EMC Clariion platforms. RAID-6 is only supported with Flare Release 26 and above on Clariion systems. Flare 26 only works on the EMC Clariion CX300, CX500, CX700, all CX3-xx platforms and all CX4-xxx … [Read more...]