One of the reasons a lot of the celerra docs are kept internal is that if used incorrectly they can degrade the performance of the unit, and any systems that tie into it, and given how many systems the celerra can touch in a customer environment, this can be substanial.

that can be said about Clariion platform as well yet excellent best practices documentation comes out of that group. Looking forward to dart 6 documentation.

Iain,

any particular reason why this is not available to customers ? Clariion group always publishes tons of best practices papers that are very helpful to me a as customer. I have yet to see anything like that from Celerra group. Now that two groups are combined should we expect to see something in the near future (with dart 6 maybe) ?

Thanks

Iain,

It wouldn't be much of a best practice doc if it degraded system performance!

The old doc which I shouldn't have was excellent point of reference which should at least be made available to partners who set these boxes up.

I work for a partner and have many docs which orginally were EMC internal use but are now available to partners.

But I guess EMC have their reasons. maybe they should have one internal and one external doc with the bits they don't want the competition to see taken out.

Regards

Ian.

Good morning folks.

I can't talk for CLARiiON and/or what they do, so I'm unsure of what sort of Best Practices documentation they provide for their customers.  As for the Celerra, it's nearly impossible to do as there are so many features and parameters that can be configured.  Also, every customer's environment and configuration is different, so a "Best Practices" for one, could be very bad and destructive for another.

We do, however, have diferent recommendations for different features and/or services.  One example is CAVA.  It is recommended that a customer have at least 2 CAVA servers, and 1 per every 500 users.  But beyond that there's also many parameter changes that can be done.  But then you have customers who don't use CAVA at all.

My recommendation would be to download the Customer CD that includes the documentation on all the different features.  Determine which features you'll be using (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Dedupe, MPFS, Replication, etc...) and read up on it.  Determine if it's a good fit for your environment and hardware.  Go over this with your Solutions Architect and they should be able to come up with the best possible scenario based on your needs, your environment and affordability.

The Celerra Network Server Documentation User CD can be found in the following location on Powerlink: 
Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Hardware/Platforms Documentation > Celerra Network Server > General Reference

Sebby Robles

eServices Support

EMC Celerra Support