When you are working with emc support, or any other emc vendors, theyll ask for sp collect information from your emc clariion storage array. Clariion cx3 series installation and maintenance lab guide. Calculations for heads, tracks, cylinders, gb posted on march. Introduction dell emc cx4 series storage systems offer many advantages over the cx and cx3 series storage systems. Emc solutions for tiered storage for microsoft sql server 2008. Vnx unified storage system that offers the nas capabilities of emcs cellera and the san capabilities of emcs clariion in the same array file and block level. Clariion cx, which features up to disk drives for a total capacity of tb, 8 gb of system memory and up to 12 fibre channel.
Emc clariion cx340 is the oltp workhorse of the emc clariion cx3 ultrascale series of networked storage systems. It includes an soe flare, which provides raid and virtual storage capability, as well as an interface navisphere by which emc clariion storage appliances in a san environment can be administered and managed. X administrators guide pn 069001125 emc clariion cx300, cx500, and cx700 storage systems configuration planning guide pn 300001273 emc navisphere version 6. Extend the life of your critical systems and deliver more uptime. The redundant architecture of the clariion storage system provides no single point of failure. Upon launch in 2008, the latest generation cx4 series storage arrays supported fibre channel and iscsi front end bus connectivity.
Emc clariion cx3 ultrascale series emc, ibm, netapp. Esx vmwares highend server product that installs directly on the physical hardware and therefore offers the best performance. Drive spin down comes standard on the cx4, which allows drives to be powered down when not in use. Upgrading to emc clariion cx4 series storage systems. Testing began with a look at the new modular io architecture of the clariion cx4. The database file is stored on the clariion cx4240 storage system either.
Emc clariion cx series proven architecture that scales from 365 gb to 117 tb in a modular, payasyougrow fashion builtin high availabilityno single point of failure, multipath data access, mirrored cache, automated system diagnostics, nondisruptive upgrades, global hotspare technology, ac or. Emc clariion systems since the data general acquisition 10 years emc clariion systems. I tried using the console, but its in my opinion unstructured and difficult to use. Clariion cx, cx3, cx4 settings for dailup ppp into the clariion machines posted on december.
Clariion architecture is based on intelligent storage processors that. The dell emc cx4 series is the fourth generation of the cx series. Emc clariion cx4 480 was used as the storage platform for both cases. Some documents describe cmi traffic going over fc, probably in the 1gb and 2gb period. How to run sp collect on emc clariion cx, cx3 and cx4 storage array. All data from host goes to cache and is queued to be written on disk through this backend bus loops. Configuring hosts to access fibre channel fc or iscsi storage. The cx4s architecture is based on stateoftheart io intercon. What is emc clariion san disk array and its architecture. If you are running release and above, you will be able to perform the sp collects from the.
Navisphere management suites includes access logix technology and the appropriate. Emc clariion cx300 2gigabit disk processor enclosure. Sell your hardware or extend support for eoleosl systems. X security administrators guide pn 069001124 emc installation roadmap for cx series and fcseries storage systems pn 069001166. The following is the procedure for spcollects on a clariion, cx, cx3 and cx4 machines. Dell, emc, and other trademarks are trademarks of dell inc. Virtualized sap solution using cisco unified computing. When applicable, uninstall any existing clariion odm file sets. Our latest enhancement, available on the cx4 series, is the navisphere vmaware feature. Emccustomized flash drive technology provides low latency.
How to run sp collect on emc clariion cx, cx3 and cx4. It can have zero or more snapview clones associated with it. The clariion architecture, based on a common highavailability design, enables the cx. An introduction to emc clariion storage device technology. The spcollect zip file will provide them all the information they need to know about your storage array.
Clariion cx, cx3, cx4 how to change navisphere manager. Welcome to the emc clariion support forum this emc clariion support forum gives you the opportunity to meet other emc clariion users and ask or answer support related questions for emc clariion. I encountered on a cx4 120 storage array the situation whereby some stale hosts were unable to be deleted. Emc clariion best practices for performance and availability. There is a pci expressx4 cmi channel between the sps that is used for communication and messaging between the sps and to mirror data emc clariion cx4 series dc power systems. An introduction to dell emc storage device technology applied technology 3 executive summary there are four types of storage device technologies available for use on dell emc cx4 and dell ax45 storage arrays.
The benefit of round robin is that not too many manual setups are necessary. The cx340 gives you highperformance, highcapacity networked storage that meets the needs of demanding oltp workloads and largescale e. The cx4 model 240 supports up to 256 highly available, dualconnected hosts, and scales from 5 to 240 disk drives. Each node can open and manage files on the volume, and therefore multiple clustered virtual machines can use volumes on the same lun disk while still being able to fail over, or move independently, from one to another. Some details of the emc clariion cx4 line is show below. Emc clariion leads the midrange storage market in providing customers.
Dae, dpe, spe, drives, naming conventions and backend architecture. Emc clariion cx series proven architecture that scales from 365 gb to 117 tb in a modular, payasyougrow fashion builtin high availabilityno single point of failure, multipath data access, mirrored cache, automated system diagnostics, nondisruptive upgrades, global hotspare technology, ac or dc power. Vnx also offers new technologies like fast, thinprov and mixed disk technologies like sas and efd. This white paper is for the use of customers, including storage architects and. Cx series architecture 4 ultraflex technology 4 where the cx4 series fits into the dell emc storage family 5 cx4 960 details 7 cx4 480 details 8 cx4 240 details 9 cx4 120 details 9 cx4 series 4 gbs ultrapoint dae 10 software on cx4 series storage systems 10 vault area on cx4 series storage systems 10 navisphere management suite 11. Clone source lun a source lun that has a clone group associated with it. Emc clariion troubleshooting 2nd edition strictly confidential emc clariion troubleshooting 2nd edition description this is a 2nd edition version of the clariion troubleshooting manual that was first introduced in january2004. Clariion cx3 series installation and maintenance labs. Clariion is a discontinued san disk array manufactured and sold by emc corporation, it occupied the entrylevel and midrange of emcs san disk array products. Low power sata drives consume up to 32% less energy than standard 7. This white paper discusses the reasons for performing this hardware upgrade and the planning considerations. Each clariion system is comprised of two service processors sp. Emc clariion troubleshooting 2nd edition strictly confidential snapview clone terms clone group a clone group is a construct for associating clones with a source lun. When the expansion is complete, you must perform a host os file system expansion.
Buy certified preowned emc clariion axi controllers with warranty. Clariion styled clariion is a discontinued san disk array manufactured and sold by emc. Manager and emc clariion storage technology to provide an effective availability solution for the mission critical ebusiness suite environment. Emc clariion cx300 experts exchange, hi i have two different but similar problems 1. Emc trademarks emc2, emc, symmetrix, celerra, clariion, claralert, connectrix, dantz, documentum, highroad, legato, navisphere, powerpath, resourcepak. Fresh installation of oracle ebusiness suite 12 along with oracle 10g database on oracle enterprise linux 4. Where the cx4 series fits into the dellemc storage family. Emc clariion cx340 network storage system vilis systems. The cx4 ultraflex series contains multiple models which differ in and provide a new storage tier which emc calls tier dell emc cx series storage arrays have built a reputation for performance, ease of use, scalability, flexibility, reliability, and. Cx4 architecture for ns series connecting a cx4480. It supports 4gbs throughput from end to end, and provides high functionality, data integrity, high availability, and expanded flexibility. Popular posts today hps raid 6 adg advanced data guarding posted on february clariion cache. There was a single disk configuration tested that had 12 spindles for the tpcc database data and four database log spindles. Installing and using the navisphere host agent or server utility to remove the host agent 310 emc clariion server support products for windows installation guide to avoid losing sitespecific information, copy the host agent configuration file nfig and the event monitor configuration file g to a safe location or rename it.
Emc clariion integration with vmware esx applied technology 6 vmware terminology cluster a cluster is a collection of esx hosts and associated virtual machines that share resources and a management interface. Emc solutions for tiered storage for microsoft sql server 2008 emc clariion cx4 series iscsi reference architecture table 1 details the disk configuration that was used as a part of this solution. Emc clariion cx3 ultrascale series the proven midrange. The scope of the architecture documented here includes. Esg lab performed handson evaluation and testing of emc s clariion cx4 storage systems at emc facilities located in southborough, massachusetts and santa clara, california. February 3, 2003 emc clariion open systems configuration guide document rev 19 page 3 emc confidential emc clariion open systems configuration guide cx2001, cx400, cx600, fc4500, fc47002, fc53003, fc55003, and fc5700 storage systems this document describes the supported configurations for the emc clariion fibre channel diskarray storagesystems. The cx4480 and cx960 support fibre channel solid state flash drives. Enterprise flash drive efd, fibre channel fc, serial attach scsi sas, and serial ata sata.
The emc celerra nas device is based on the same xblade architecture as the. Emc replistor software provides filebased local and remote asynchronous. Our latest enhancement, available on the cx4 series, is the navisphere vm aware feature. The vnx5000 systems takes the place of the cx4 480, cx4 240, cx4 120 and clariion ax4 fibre channel array and ns480, ns120 celerra arrays. The dell emc cx4 960 delivers several features to help reduce power and cooling costs. In 2011, emc introduced the emc vnx series, designed to replace both the clariion and celerra products. Emc combines clariion, celerra line in vnx, revamps entire.
Emc clariion cx4 model 120 specification sheet pdf. Emc clariion cx4 model gives you a powerful networked storage system that scales seamlessly up to tb of capacity so you can consolidate more. Buy %% more clariion capacity with the same budget. Lun compression and thin provisioning reduces the amount. The following sections in this document detail the cisco ucs system, intel xeon 5600 series processors and emc clariion used in case study, the solution implemented, performance results and applicability. Emc in fourthgen clariion call cx4 storage arrays get flash. Clariion cx3 ultrascale series maximum scalability for consolidation and tiered storage industryleading price performance for data center requirements new levels of affordability and ease of use for networked storage cx320 cx340 cx380 breakthrough architecture and. Vnx architecture emc clariion architecture vnx 1 and. The sp is simply an intel core 2 architecture server system. Large file applicationsenabling faster processing at lower cost for. Emc celerra file server for the vblock gateway configuration sharing clariion or symmetrix storage. It provides the unique ability to communicate directly with the experts running emc s clariion solution in their environments. Clariion cx4 model 240 bestinclass performance for midrange networked storage emc clariion cx4 240 provides powerful networked storage that scales seamlesslyup to 231 tb of capacity. Emc introduced the vnx series, designed to replace both the clariion and celerra products.
Emc solutions for tiered storage for sql server 2008 vmware. Vblock architecture andrew smallridge dc technology solutions architect. The managefiles command will transfer the data file to the navisphere cli directory where the command was invoked. The cx4 series continues to expand the reputation and capabilities of dell emc storage systems. The original manual had an accompanying training course that still has relevant material.
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