VCMDB: Volume Control Manager Database ACLX: Access Control Logix VCM: Volume Control Manager device (where the database resides) VCM Gatekeeper: Volume Control Manager Gatekeeper (database doesn’t reside on these devices) SFS Volumes: Symmetrix File System Volumes If you work … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix: Dynamic Hot Spares
July 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
There are two types of sparing strategies available on EMC Symmetrix Series of machines. Dynamic Hot Sparing: Starting the Symmetrix 4.0, EMC had introduced dynamic hot spares in its Enginuity code to support customers against failing disk drives and reducing the probability of a data loss. … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix: Permanent Sparing
July 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
There are two types of sparing strategies available on EMC Symmetrix Series of machines. Dynamic Hot Sparing: Starting the Symmetrix 4.0, EMC had introduced dynamic hot spares in its Enginuity code to support customers against failing disk drives and reducing the probability of a data loss. … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Supported drive type
July 2, 2009 by Leave a Comment
With the release of EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems, EMC introduced higher density EFD’s (Enterprise Flash Disks) than being supported on its predecessor, the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4. Below are some stats related to the supported drive types on a Symmetrix V-Max system with 5874.123.104 … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Enginuity 5874
July 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems were introduced back in the month of April 2009. With this new generation of Symmetrix came a new name V-Max and a new Enginuity family of microcode 5874. To read about Symmetrix on StorageNerve Blog: http://storagenerve.com/tag/symmetrix To read about V-Max systems on … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4: Supported Drive Types
June 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In this blog post we will discuss the supported drive models for EMC Symmetrix DMX-4. Right before the release of Symmetrix V-Max systems, in early Feb 2009 we saw some added support for EFD’s (Enterprise Flash Disk) on the Symmetrix DMX-4 platform. The additions were denser 200GB and 400GB … [Read more...]