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SAN certification for storage career

rkwac453 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:52:36 +0000

Do i really need to get certification for Storage Area Network in EMC if i wanted to be storage professional?

EMC SAN Expansion in VMware

Nealkal — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:39:53 +0000

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 extremely slow. I have VM’s that had C drives on the SAN that can no longer run because the SAN is so slow. I expanded the space almost a week ago. Does anyone know why the SAN would run so slow after I expanded the space? Could the SAN still be doing some configuring that is slowing everything down?

Upgrading SQL Server 2000/2005 to 2008 with VMWare and EMC SANs

SQL2K8Dude — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:47:51 +0000

Has anyone ever seen a White Paper on the best way to utilize features of both VMWare and EMC Symmetrix based SANs in a real-time or rapid batch based upgrade from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008 with minimal downtime for application availability?

Suggest one OS Cert and one scripting language.

emcsanguy — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:38:17 +0000

Hi, I am a EMC SAN Administrator planning to do one UNIX OS Certification and learn a scripting language. Should I do RHCE or SCSA as far as OS Certs are concerned. I know that a certification does not indicate good skill sets, still I feel it will help me as I dont have much Sys Admin skills. After Oracle buying SUN, would SCSA still hold a value?

As for scripting languages, not able to decide between Perl or Python. Some say Perl is dead and that Perl 6 will be a mess and things like that while some say Python isnt as good as Perl. Can someone suggest ?

Dynamic and Static SRDF

IMSANMAN — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:31:12 +0000

Can anyone tell be What is dynamic and Static SRDF?

EMC SAN and Ubuntu

ITKE — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:08:39 +0000

Has anyone had success connecting their Ubuntu installation to an EMC
SAN? They do offer Navisphere Agent support for Ubuntu

Lost SAN Connection after MS Security Patches updated

Rkothama — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:49:44 +0000

EMC DMX800, DMX1000 were visible to a Windows 2003 Server (R2, SP2) with Emulex HBA. After some Security Patches updated it has lost SAN Connectivity. HBAnywhere sees FA ports of Arrays. However, HBA of the host is not logging into the Array.

How to present an EMC Storage LUN to Windows 2003

TXShelbyman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:37:30 +0000

We have virtualized a number of our servers (with VMWare) and updated our CA Arcserve backup software. Arcserve suggest having a backup proxy server and a backup server. I have installed VCB on the backup proxy server. This is right out of CA’s installation manual:

Managing an EMC SAN with SMI-S and SNMP

SearchStorageATE — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:04:50 +0000

Which technologie should I use between SMI-S and SNMP to manage an EMC SAN?

I heard that SMI-S offers more management for SAN. What can SMI-S do that SNMP cannot do?