EMC SAN Expansion in VMware
Hello We have an EMC SAN Clariion connected to 5 VM Hosts. I recently put in five more 500 GB hard drives into the SAN. When I went to expand it into our VMware virtual disk the expansion took around 8 hours. The problem I am having now is that the SAN is now running [...]

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2010  4:39 PM
CLARiiON, EMC CLARiiON, EMC SAN, SAN, SAN management, Virtual Disk Expansion, VMware

What do EMC recommend as best raid group for RAID 6, (8+2)?
What do EMC recommend as best practices for number of disks in a raid group for RAID 6, (8+2) with SATA drives with A CX3 Clariion array?

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  1:23 PM
CLARiiON, CX3 Clariion Array, EMC, RAID, RAID 6, SATA

EMC Clariion CX700 Problems – Data Sector Invalidated
Hello, I have two EMC Clariion CX700′s (which, for convenience we call CX700-1 and CX700-2) and one recently added CX3-40 in my SAN environment using fiber-switch fabric. Over the weekend, I experienced a hardware failure on SPA on CX700-1. After having it replaced by my vendor’s technician and getting the SP to reboot successfully, all [...]

Answer Question   |  September 25, 2008  5:44 PM
Arrays, CLARiiON, Clariion CX700, Fibre channel, SAN, Storage management, Storage products and equipment, Storage servers

iSCSI vs FC SAN
We are trying to determine if there is any impact to MS SQL 2000 servers given either a iSCSI SAN vs Fibre Channel SAN. The majority of the databases are read/query intensive during the day, and write intensive during the overnight job cycle. Currently we have 8 SQL database servers (Windows 2000) which we would [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  10:01 AM
CLARiiON, CX500i, EMC, Fibre channel, Fibre channel SAN, Flexline 340, iSCSI, SAN