By default, the EMC Unity uses self-signed certificates for its management portal and various other connectivity (e.g. vCenter) This generally results in certificate errors when accessing the web UI (as the certificate is untrusted). To upload your own certificates, 1) Generate the certificates. Ensure you have the following Base-64…
When mapping storage through to a host, be careful of conflicts from the existing dummy LUN ID 0. When presenting the first LUN to a Linux host from a new controller (in preparation for migrating from an existing array), LUN ID 0 was automatically assigned. It turns out, the array…
How to configure Multipath IO in CentOS SAN Storage Configuration Perform preliminary configuration steps within the storage controller, FC switches e.g.: * LUN Creation * FC zoning * LUN Masking Install Multipath Driver yum install device-mapper-multipath systemctl enable multipathd systemctl start multipathd Scan the FC HBA device for new LUNs * The device…
This is the second day of the Usenix Annual Technical conference June 2016, held in Denver, Colorado, USA. Specifically, the "HotStorage" and "HotCloud" events were held over the first two days of the conference. As each presentation was delivered by a single researcher, only this main…
We approached this in a phased manner, connecting 2 x old FC switches to the existing 8Gbps ports on the compellent (Fault Domain A and Fault Domain B), then connected the new 16Gbps interfaces to new FC switches on new Fault Domain C and new Fault Domain D. We are…