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RE: add new LUNs to the new ports for VMware ESXi without rebooting

Posted By Gary Matthews 03-01-2024 08:39
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The ESXi box expects to see a LUN when it logs into the storage .  If you manually define the host group and present a LUN , THEN zone the server to the storage it should see the LUN OK without a reboot ------------------------------ Gary Matthews Technical Architect CGI IT UK Limited ------------ ...

HCP Failover - Making DR site the Primary

Posted By Gary Matthews 01-23-2024 05:09
Found In Community: Hitachi Content Platform​ \ view thread
Hi, Just have a query on failover of the HCPs. We've got a  a G10 cluster running at 9.4 currently active in Datacentre DC1. We've got some Tenants ( some with SMB access namesspaces for logs and one for Enterprise Vault for Exchange) replicating over some active/passive links to a secondary datacentre ...

SMB Alternate Data Stream

Posted By Gary Matthews 06-27-2023 06:36
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
Hi, We're looking to classify our documents on our HNAS 4060 , currently on  14.6.7520.04. At the moment for the most part office docs are ok, however CSV and some other files need to have an ADS written to them in order to take the classification marking and they are failing. We've been asked to check ...

File count different between snapshot and original

Posted By Gary Matthews 04-07-2022 06:56
Found In Egroup: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
HNAS4060 firmware 13.9.6815 We snapshot our filesystems nightly for  reporting against. Our application guys have raised a query. checking properties yesterday and today (explorer .right click>properties) ,they had different details on a folder in the snapshot and on the original . eg \\evs\share ...

How to scripts HNAS snapshots - rename and create

Posted By Gary Matthews 10-19-2021 09:50
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
An update to an earlier query - Were currently scanning and reporting on files on our HNAS4060. To stop last access times being updated were scanning on the filesystem snapshots. This needs to be a static , so created a snapshot called CRAWLER . During testing Ive manually renamed it for the next run ...

What are the internal steps when a write is received on a Gx00

Posted By Gary Matthews 10-08-2021 08:29
Found In Community: Flash Storage​ \ view thread
We have a database running on a linux box (progress database) currently using a G400 with sas drives. Weve added a dell/emc all flash unity but the response times for the database writes are more than double for the unity! The database vendorss saying they use direct writes and thats the issue - but ...

RE: In port security enabled state, zoning with existing host port and storage port. Then wwn showing logged out.

Posted By Gary Matthews 10-08-2021 08:22
Found In Community: Object Storage​ \ view thread
What is the operating system? Ive found on some - particularly ESX, if this is the first time that port has been presented to a Hitachi box , it expects to see a LUN or it doesnt login properly. I always now manually create a host groups , present a lun , then zone in. If it is the case of a first time ...

How to report on the total number of user files on a HNAS

Posted By Gary Matthews 07-15-2021 14:10
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
would there be any effect on creating a v-vol at the root of a fileshare ?   We’re running a project to classify all the data on the HNAS within OSCA at the moment, and looking at the number of files. We’ve used treesize from the front end and come up with a number , and index Engines and came up with ...

How do I get a range of free LUs with powershell

Posted By Gary Matthews 06-09-2021 12:38
Found In Community: Pentaho \ view thread
hoping theres some powershell experts out there who can help me as Im a complete novice. Ive installed the hitachi powershell cmdlets and successfully added the storage. I want to automate creation of LUNS ( weve been told we have to use powershell) and there are specific ranges of LUs that are used ...

RE: setting up infrastructure adapter , unable to add storage E100A11A

Posted By Gary Matthews 06-09-2021 11:43
Found In Community: Flash Storage​ \ view thread
rookie error :-) the cmdlet takes the sort form of the serial so 20756

setting up infrastructure adapter , unable to add storage E100A11A

Posted By Gary Matthews 06-03-2021 09:28
Found In Community: Flash Storage​ \ view thread
Hoping someone can help point out where I’m going wrong . I’m trying to do the initial set up of the powershell cmdlets so :-   Cmd device created with the authentication requirements as set out in the manual, with authentication enable     This is seen by the management server – I’ve initialised it ...

RE: how to rename a manual snapshot adding date to the name

Posted By Gary Matthews 05-25-2021 13:14
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
or is it possible to create a share that always point to the latest snapshot , in the manual it says The storage server provides a file system view that can be used to access the latest snapshot for a file system. This view automatically changes as new snapshots are taken, but is not affected by changes ...

how to rename a manual snapshot adding date to the name

Posted By Gary Matthews 05-25-2021 10:39
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
Hi, Were currently looking to run some indexing work on our HNAS. This will update the last access date , and rather than keep turning that option on and off , we want to run it against snapshots of our file systems. Now we want to do it against fixed names rather than a scheduled snapshot which adds ...

Beginners Ops Centre questions

Posted By Gary Matthews 03-04-2021 10:26
Found In Community: Hitachi Ops Center​ \ view thread
Hi , weve recently decommissioned our old VSPs , with only G1500s, HNAS and HCP in our environment now. So were moving from HCS/ Storage navigator to Ops Centre . Ive had a play around with it - not sure if its an improvement , but it may just be a case of teh devil you know :-) . Have a couple of questions ...

RE: Help on scripting/Automation

Posted By Gary Matthews 02-24-2021 10:11
Found In Community: Hitachi Ops Center​ \ view thread
Thanks William. We dont have automator, but have a requirement to write some code to keep the directors happy :-) The API stuff sounds interesting , can you post a link to that thread please Cheers

Help on scripting/Automation

Posted By Gary Matthews 02-18-2021 14:26
Found In Community: Hitachi Ops Center​ \ view thread
After some help from the experts on here :-) We’ve got objectives this year on automation - we have to come up with two or more automation implementations . I’m thinking of automating out LUN creation , yes I know it’s easy under Opscenter but the whole thing is a case of automation for automations sake ...

RE: New Ops Center Portal install via installer gives "404" error

Posted By Gary Matthews 01-11-2021 13:59
Found In Community: Pentaho \ view thread
Looks like a typo in the manual. Instead of https://opcentreip:443/ as in the manual it should be https://opscentreip:443/portal for the portal and https://opscentreip:20961/vam for the admin

RE: New Ops Center Portal install via installer gives "404" error

Posted By Gary Matthews 01-11-2021 11:15
Found In Community: Pentaho \ view thread
Hi James , did you get a resolution to this after? Im going through and install at the moment and am at the same point , https://portal:443 and https://portal/vam get the 404 for name and IP

Does HNAS support Alternate Data Stream?

Posted By Gary Matthews 03-17-2020 11:37
Found In Community: Network Attached Storage​ \ view thread
#HitachiVirtualStoragePlatformVSP #HitachiNetworkAttachedStorageNAS

How to automate alerting / reporting on replication status

Posted By Gary Matthews 03-06-2020 15:28
Found In Community: Flash Storage​ \ view thread
Were in the middle of setting up 3DC HUR , and after a fair bit of testing , turns out that replication manage doesnt support 3DC HUR. So I dug out the CCI manual and were doing it command line. This means weve lost the alerting capabilities of HCS . Anyone set up alerting from a cci managed system? ...