HPUX- EMC

[Nobody's Hero]

I have an older EMC 3930 symm that holds our HPUX data disks. Is there a command or utility I can use to see how many open slots I have in the 3930? I need to add more disks but I am not sure if I have any open slots.

[Derek Whigham_1]

Have a look at this link, Hope this helps


http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/products/dpi/install_guides/EMC_Symmetrixdpi_03_00_B.pdf

[Rick Garland]

With your EMC support, EMC should be able to get your 'bin' file and tell you everything you need to know about the symm devices and the cabinets.

You have EMC's ECC product? A WIN based GUI that provides you with the info you seek.

At the bottom level, there are the sym commands (symmir, symrdf, symcfg, syminq, etc) that you can string together and parse out the relevant info.

[morganelan]

Hi Robert,

I think you must find your BIN File documentation because from this file we can know how many disks that have been added to EMC System, if you do not want get difficulties use EMC Control Center Tools for Windows base view that can easyly to find out whatever that reside on your EMC System, or using Symmcli command line (symdev list). Easiest way is you must call EMC engineer that implemented your EMC System.

[morganelan]

Hi,
Try this:
#symcfg -v list
everything you could possibly want to know, and more. Before running this command you must export the path of symcli that reside on your HPUX Server that connected to EMC System.

[generic_1]

There are several scenarios. Are you wondering how many more luns you can carve with what you have. Did you buy your frame with capacity on demand, because emc could enable more luns, for a fee, and physical disks would already be there. Lastly you are out of lun space and really do need to add disks physically to the frame. In that case I would just go count whats empty and talk to your emc rep. The ammount of space you get is going to depend on your raid and disk sparing. Also this is important because if you do not plan future upgrades like this carefully in your bin file layout you could really impact your performance of your EMC unit which intern affects all your servers using it. You should discuss it with your EMC engineer just for this reason. Powerpath is not a solve all solution.
Best of Luck.