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The simple jobs are always the painful ones

Posted on : 07-12-2011 | By : DamianD | In : AX4, EMC, Storage

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Was asked to cover a colleague on a “simple” storage upgrade on an EMC Clariion AX4-5 array. Add 8 disks, present to a windows host, enable data transfer.

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Once Complete the original LUNs would be destroyed and redistributed – simples…

Except the operating code (Flare) on the array was relatively old 505 level. And the disks were relatively new 2TB SATA units. Navisphere Manager showed the drives as “unknown”.

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