IMO, it doesn't matter! Best practice guide is for CLARiiON. The latest guide is more or less the same and keeps on updating from time to time and talks about features best practices on the CLARiiON

For Eg. Storage Pool is not applicable for AX so you won't find that in older Best Practice Guide however, in new guide it will mention applicable from FLARE xx onwards!

IMHO, refer to the latest Best Practice Guide available on Powerlink!

Hi Ankit,

I just wanted to find out where the documents can be found. I have tried finding them on Powerlink/EMC One/EMC Community Network. I have some documents for Flare 13 onwards. It was just a request to find out where I can find the documents which are missing in the list of Best Practices docs. I already know that the latest best practices documents count, but older documents do have information which is important and still relevant after long years I hope I made my purpose clear.

EMC ECN is a public facing community, EMC|ONE (EMC Internal Portal) I doubt any one attaching old Best Practice White Papers. I did not know you are an EMC Employee so my response was generalised and it still stands the same.

EMC does not store previous versions of White Papers and Best Practices, if not required. Best Practice is guide for a Product, FLARE is just an software update which improves the Product Functionality so notes are added accordingly.

Back to topic there are thin chances you will find Best Practices for all the FLARE Revisions from a public forum as it used to be a Engineering White Paper earlier. (EMC Confidential)

Your options are below:

• Check: EMC Partnerweb Archieved Document Section. (I highly doubt you'll find one there but still check if there is any)
• Email support@emc.com state your requirement.

• Try checking with CLARiiONLRS Distribution List and see if any of my ex-colleague still has any other earlier versions.

• If you are USPEED GURU and has access to USPEED Portal with GURU rights then you should find one for FLARE Release 28 as a Technical Supplement in below mentioned path:

        USPEED Portal > Performance Documents > Best Practices

To get you started I am attaching one for FLARE 29! & FLARE 28 you may try to get it from USPEED Portal.

As far as important information is concerned everything is updated in a revised Whitepaper! So, I still standby with what I mentioned earlier, it is always recommended to read/refer/quote latest Best Practice Guide.

Good Luck!

Ankit

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PowerLink removes documents based on usage - documents with low usage counts get removed after some period of time.

The Best Practice docs for CX4 is now missing from PowerLink - the last one published was "EMC CLARiiON Performance and Availability Release 30 Firmware Update Applied Best Practices.pdf" - this combined the flare 28/29 docs. I've put that doc in the Documents section on this forum - you can find it on the 4th page in.

For CX3 - the last one was for flare 26 - it combined flare 22 and 24. All of the most important stuff from those were put into the Flare 30 Best pracitice guide.

glen

PS. If you're EMC, send me email and I'll get the old docs for you, but really, the R22-26 are really not needed now.

Thanks guys. I have the docs starting from Flare 13, once I put in a little effort trying to find them