Containerization vis-à-vis Virtualization

While containerization technologies have been around for years – think Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails – clearly they have been garnering a lot of attention lately. Throughout 2014, Docker gained significant momentum, with most major...

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Dockerized SYMCLI

If you work with offline SYMAPI databases frequently, you’ve probably encountered cases where you can’t open a DMX SYMAPI database on a recent version of Solutions Enabler. Getting around this typically means you must maintain...

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SYMCLI Singles

This post is simply a collection of UNIX/Linux shell one-liners for SYMCLI. Well, I guess they’re not all one-liners, but they’re all pretty brief – to be pasted into a shell rather than executed from...

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VMAX FASTVP Best Practice Essentials

I spend a lot of time talking to VMAX customers about FASTVP deployment and administration best practices. FASTVP has lots of 'nerd knobs' -- and the mere presence of these optional parameters can sometimes cause...

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Offline SYMCLI Commands

One of the little-known features of SYMCLI is its ability to interrogate an offline SYMAPI database. This can be useful for safely running query scripts without the risk of affecting a production array. Or if...

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Unisphere for VMAX REST API

Note: This post primarily covers the REST API in Unisphere for VMAX versions 1.6.x and prior. The REST API was overhauled in Unisphere for VMAX version 8.x, but still maintains backwards compatibility with the old...

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