VU Blog

I worked with EMC this past month to evaluate EBA. After using the product for that time we have decided that as the product currently stands it is not of much use to us. It gathers available logs from several pieces of the storage environment and rolls them up to a single pane for review. However, it consumed over 40% of the processor on our primary backup server. The functionality it provided was not worth the performance impact to our systems.This past weekend I attempted to migrate a large remaining portion of our storage environment to the admin network. Unfortunately, despite information from EMC that only the RM server for Exchange needed to communicate to the Clariions, the RM application was broken by the move. We learned during this process that the Exchange servers still need to communicate to the Clariions as well. We will be working with the mail team to try and get the Exchange servers dual homed and resolve an application issue preventing it.

I also developed scripts this month to pull CO-LO usage information from our Clariion arrays. This information was requested by management to help determine what ITS storage resources are dedicated to other departments.

Finally this month we reviewed several tape libraries for life cycle replacement of our current Sun StorageTek L700. We have made a decision and presented it to management.