EMC Symmetrix BIN file, largely an unknown topic in the storage industry and practically there is no available information related to it. This post is just an attempt to shed some light as to what a BIN file is, how it works, what’s in it and why is it essential with the Enginuity code. Some EMC … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and Symmetrix V-Max: Basic Differences
July 7, 2009 by 1 Comment
In this post we will cover some important aspects / properties / characteristics / differences between the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and EMC Symmetrix V-Max. It seems like a lot of users are searching on blog posts about this information. From a high level, I have tried to cover the differences in … [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...]
Is DMX The Worst Array for Wastage?
February 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
As part of my work with Storage Fusion, I’m reporting on capacity and utilisation figures for different array vendors. Part of this includes analysing exceptions and wastage. DMX and Symmetrix seem to have more issues than any other platform. Is this by design? I guess I should define … [Read more...]