Aug 27, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Move Windows 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 MSDTC Witness Disk to new SAN drive

This post explains how to move the MSDTC SAN drive to another drive on a Windows 2008 / 2012 cluster. For the most part you are deleting the existing cluster defined service and recreating pointing to the new drive. Before moving to the new storage drive assigned to MSDTC you will need to gather the following information. MSDTC ip address New and old SAN drive’s Current cluster service definition You also... read more

Aug 21, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Use Device-Alias on a Cisco MDS

As I continue on my journey of learning how to manage storage I have learned about using device aliases instead of pwwn’s directly. The benefit to using device-alias in this manner makes it easy when a device has new pwwn’s assigned to it (due to hardware replacement or in the case of a blade a move to a new chassis) that you can update the device-alias and not have to make any other storage... read more

Jul 31, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Use SYMCLI in offline mode

Recently I made a job change and have delved into the Storage arena and supporting EMC storage products. One of the products is EMC Symmetrix . With that comes learning how to use the product and the syntax of the various commands. As to not cause any damage to the systems and learn found System Enabler can be used in offline mode installed on a Windows and Linux system. SYMCLI is the most widely used EMC... read more