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Debrand a Dell EMC IDPA DP4400 to a PowerEdge R740xd (Updated with 15th & 16th Gen)

Posted on March 23, 2023February 25, 2025 by tkrn

It’s simple to debrand an “OEM”ed variant of the Dell PowerEdge R740 or R640 based “appliance”. First you will need the default identity which can be found here: DELL PowerEdge OEMR XL Dell Branded ID Module with Windows Embedded OS Support You’re looking for the 4XHVW_14G_DBE_CustBSU_3_00.exe (local mirror) file which must be extracted first prior…

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EMC PowerPath PPME Internal Error Migrations May Be Pending Fix

Posted on August 25, 2014December 11, 2024 by tkrn

A host side migration between arrays can be a nerve racking task especially when you come across issues. Data loss is a constant fear in the back of your mind and what is your fail-back plan should you need to execute it. During a PowerPath migration, I learned the hard way that a host side […]

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EMC Avamar Error 10007 VMX file is Suspiciously Small Fix

Posted on July 10, 2013December 11, 2024 by tkrn

EMC Avamar Error 10007 is an interesting error with a little history behind it. After opening up a support case with EMC, they indicated that error 10007, vmx file is suspiciously small, is a legacy error message from the VMware vCenter 4.x version of vCenter. From what the support technician said, is that the VMX […]

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EMC VNX Check Transitioning Equalizing Faulted LUN Disk

Posted on September 16, 2012December 11, 2024 by tkrn

After a disk has faulted, the disk goes into a transitioning or an equalizing state. EMC uses different terminology to describe the action of repairing a faulted disk. Transitioning or equalizing times can vary based on the type and speed of the disk but your SAN utilization will have a direct impact on how fast […]

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EMC VNX Integration Quest Vintela Authentication Services

Posted on September 2, 2012December 11, 2024 by tkrn

Quest (Vintela) Authentication Services (VASD) provides schema extensions to Active Directory to authentication against LDAP by providing SID to UID/GID mappings and vice versa. In multiprotocol environments that provide NFS and SMB protocols to the same underlying data it becomes tricky with permissions and file ownership since it must be maintained in the *nix and […]

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EMC DataDomain Default BIOS CMOS Password

Posted on August 27, 2012December 11, 2024 by tkrn

If you ever have a need to get into an EMC DataDomain BIOS screen the default password is a simple pattern based off the major series model number. For example: DD460 = d400d (delta four zero zero delta) DD670 = d600d (delta six zero zero delta) DD880 = d800d (delta four zero zero delta) The pattern is simple, “d […]

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EMC Isilon Clear Cached UID GID Mappings

Posted on August 21, 2012December 11, 2024 by tkrn

During testing, the EMC Isilon storage was successfully reading the Active Directory Attributes but the data was incorrect. The data that was in the uid & gid fields were id’s that were automatically generated by the Isilon storage itself. The id’s that were generated by the Isilon storage took precedence over any mappings that were […]

EMC Isilon Integration Quest Vintela Authentication Services

Posted on August 21, 2012 by tkrn

There are many challenges that are faced when an organization is forced to run a mixed protocol environment to serve up the same data. This introduces additional management tasks and additional complexities. In a mixed protocol environment you must manage Windows Access Control Lists (ACL) to enforce Windows permissions in addition to managing *nix user/group […]

Restart EMC VNX Management Services in Unisphere

Posted on March 5, 2012 by tkrn

Restarting the Management Services for EMC Unisphere is simple and it does not require an outage. The process will require you to log into each Service Processor separately through a web interface. 1. Open up a web browser and goto https://<Service Processor IP/FQDN>/setup 2. Login using the ‘sysadmin’ user account and password. 3. Scroll down to […]

Commonly Used NaviSECCli Commands

Posted on September 28, 2011 by tkrn

Here is a list of good commands that I use frequently when working with an EMC SAN, in particular, a Celerra or VNX series. Enjoy! Summary: Gets the disk information, state and other metrics. Note: that 1_1_14 is Bus 1 Enclosure 1 Disk 14. Command: Result: Summary: Get all LUNs that are trespassed (not on […]

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