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EMC CX3-40 Drive Replacement In Pictures
So I have been really busy lately and haven’t had time to post almost anything. We had a lot of 73gig drives in our older CX3-40. They were there for spindle count (15krpm x 60 disks). We needed the...
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EMC CX500 Overview And End of Life’d – In Pictures
Continuing on in my not having much time to blog, here is another “in pictures” post. This time we go from new equipment being installed to the EOL’ing (end of life) of an older EMC CX-500. Just some...
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EMC DataDomain 600 Series Selection Process
Budgeting process for 2011 has started and we have been looking into what needs to be replaced or upgraded in our infrastructure. We have had two older DataDomain 510′s in service for a few years now,...
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EMC DataDomain Oracle Backup Deduplication Statistics
A real quick post today, as I was reviewing some of our DataDomain statistics. Below shows the deduplication information for an Oracle database file (~16gb) that was backedup via RMAN to our...
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Pictures From Datacenter NAS Refresh (EMC Celerra NX4 and NetApp 3020)
So once again I found myself at the datacenter shuffling around equipment. These pictures and videos are from our secondary (DR) location. I was removing our older single headed NetApp FAS3020 and...
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RamSan 630 (SSD) Racking And Flash Module Installation
We are continuing to roll out Texas Memory RamSan SSD devices to support our Oracle environments. This time we went with a RamSan 630 for our disaster recover location to host our primary Oracle...
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Cisco UCS 6120 Switch Replacement
So back in August of 2010 I had to do a 6120 switch replacement, due to a bad port on the switch. I know I commented on twitter during the process but did not here. To be safe, we were in a maintenance...
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EMC DataDomain 670 Implementation Pictures
DD 670 Front We received our new DataDomain 670 last week and it has definitely had a face lift from the 500 series. First, it is a 2u versus a 3u unit. Also, the 600 series no longer have...
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EMC NX4 Expansion
So our EMC NX4(s) are starting to actually look like a real storage system. We have two units that were installed a few months ago with 1 tray of drives. We ordered 4 more DAEs (2 for each sytem) for...
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10gb Ethernet – A Year Later / Buy It Carefully
What I am getting at here is do not underestimate the amount of ports you will be using. We have implemented Cisco UCS with 6120 switches but also installed a pair of Nexus 5010 switches as well. Going...
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RamSan 500 Pictures / Failure
We had two DRAM cache modules fail in our RamSan 500 recently. The actual error was: Uncorrected ECC event detected on boards 4,6 The DRAM cache fronts the Flash storage drives in the unit....
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