EMC VNX TUTORIAL

Introduction to EMC VNX :

The New VNX Family

Here they are -- the new VNX series.The VNX effectively replaces both the CLARiiON and Celerra lines going forward.  Users of each  will find strong commonality with the environments they're used to -- plus a substantial number of new features and capabilities.

The new VNXe is a story in itself -- a ground-up new platform, built with proven EMC code assets, and targeted at fast-growing segment of the market with unique requirements.

The CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX and VNXe all share a common management environment -- Unisphere, successfully introduced in mid-2010.  

Customers who have already made the leap to Unisphere (and have most likely come to appreciate its unique strong points) will find the user experience very familiar on the new platforms.

More on speeds and feeds in a moment.

Storage Is (Simplified) Software:

As storage has become progressively more sophisticated over the past few years, the natural tendency was to simply create new storage software packages and associated titles that reflected all the new functionality.

To Access the EMC VNX use Putty via SSH or Unisphere. (EMC storage management center)

To Open Putty and login to VNX.

Use Unisphere client or use https://URL NAME

Login with the user and password.

This is the VNX Dash Board. You can add the VNX storages here. You can set the alerts also.

To view the systems, press the systems tab. You have one VNX storage (FBTVNX).

This is the dash board of a particular storage system. System details.

To manage the system hardware and alerts.

Storage Tab ( creating CIFS and NFS shares)
Creating VTL's.
Creating RAID pools and LUNs

Data Protection Tab:

Snap shots and Replication

Security:

User accounts
Network settings
Domains.

To list the system hardware

Storage Hardwares, spare disks

To see properties of a particular component:

To list the properties of a Storage Processor.

 Storage:

Creating a storage pool:

CIFS / NFS shares:

Creating file system:

File system properties and size.

senthilfs file system  successfully created.

Creating Virtual Tape (VTL) click the Virtual Tape.

 Creating Virtual Tape library:

Define the Robot and number of drives and number of slots and number of I/O slots.

Now the Tape library with 4 drives created.

Details about the drives and the file system.

4 drives got created.

Now configure through Netabckup application.