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June 28th, 2012 09:00

MirrorView Question

Hi,

Just need quick confirmation on following question.

We have two VNX 5700, joined to same domain. Under domain status one of the VNX 5700 showing unsupported.

VNX OE version are 7.0.40-1 and 7.0.51-3.

When I logon to unisphere which is running VNX OE 7.0.40-1 shows the other VNX as unsupported. If logon to the other VNX running higher version its seem fine. Any thoughts on this? do I need to update the VNX OE to same level before MirrorView can be setup?

Quick reponse would be great help.

Thank you

Sultan

  • Rainer_EMC

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    Posted June 28th, 2012 12:00

    7.0.40 is ancient – please upgrade

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    Posted June 28th, 2012 14:00

    Thanks Rainer. I have read the MirrorView Software requirements. It states that both source and destination must be on same major version. How do you read the major version from minor?

    Here is the link to the document http://corpusweb130.emc.com/upd_prod_VNX/UPDFinalPDF/jp/MirrorView_for_Disaster_Recovery.pdf

    Thanks

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    Posted June 28th, 2012 15:00

    Another question, how do you upgrade the firmware to latest? Is this done via unisphere?

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    Posted June 29th, 2012 02:00

    Its done by using a utility called as Unisphere Service Manager.

    Can be downloaded via powerlink from :

    Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads T-Z > Unisphere Service Manager (USM)

    And the info regarding the same can be veiwed in Primus article number emc248129

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    Posted June 29th, 2012 04:00

    It is an extra application – UniSphere Service Manager (USM)

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    Posted June 29th, 2012 06:00

    In this case there were changes done between these versions that affect MirrorView management so please upgrade no matter what the doc says

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    Posted July 5th, 2012 15:00

    Feedback on my finding and process that fixed the issue. Upgrade was required as you cannot manage VNX from older version of unisphere client running; that is why that message unsupported appeared. Second problem we had was that VNX mirrrorview initators was not logging in. This turned out to be Cisco switch issues; for full discussion I open a post on Cisco forum, incase your intersted here is the link. https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/3676388

    Thank you all who responded to this post.


    Cheers.