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Long shot question: Environment is Site A: EMC Clariion CX4-120 SAN VM server cluster (3 physical hosts) Site B: EMC Clariion CX4-120 SAN, same hardware as one above. It's basically an exact copy, with the same LUNs allocated as at siteA. In site A, all the VMs are stored in a "VM Storage LUN" at that SAN. Is it OK to set up an asynchronous mirror to SiteB? I'd like to set it up every 24 hours, from A to B. The biggest concern in question is if reading these VM files in the "VM Storage LUN" for copying. My guess is that no, because the VMs read the file from the storage once, and then don't touch that store while they're running... but I really don't want to just guess on this one. Any ideas?
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Feb 24, 2013 01:15
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It's my boss's concern, I don't think there's anything to worry about, but since I can't find a straight answer anywhere, I can't go back to him and say I'm 100% sure we're doing the right thing. The concern is: Would a VM that is stored in SiteA be in any way corrupted because the data is being accessed by mirrorview to copy to SiteB.
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Feb 24, 2013 06:11
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That's what I thought  Now if only I could find an official document that said something like that.Anyways, thanks. At least now I know what's right, and that's a good thing to be sure of.
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Feb 24, 2013 06:52
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We took offline a pair of EMC CLARiiON CX4-120s, and will not be using it anymore. Any recommendations on what to do with the hardware? I'm thinking of listing all the drives (about 50 total) for sale on eBay, kinda like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/EMC-CLARiiON-CX4-120-CX4-240-450GB-15K-CX-4G15-450-005048951-005048849-005049032-/150823481357 (on that note, any tips on where I can find the plastic enclosures to put the drives in safely? )
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Nov 11, 2013 23:31
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We got them straight from EMC, and they would have only bought them back if we replaced with a newer SAN from them... and we did not do that.
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Nov 12, 2013 00:28
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Anyone going to NetApp insight next week? I'm slowly taking on storage from my boss, but I've done so little administration that I don't feel that I really know NetApp yet. Gonna take the NCDA test because it's free, but other than that, not really sure what value to get out of the conference - aside from all the delicious dinners with reps and vendors each night 
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Oct 26, 2019 18:30
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^ yep, I've at least done some of that, so the chances of me passing the NCDA are more than zero. We'll see!
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Oct 28, 2019 05:11
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