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October 14th, 2011 23:00

How to identify the engines in VMAX through symcli

Hello,

can anyone let me know how can i find the number of engines in a VMAX box through symcli. Is it possible by looking at the nmber of director pairs in a particular array ?

Symmetrix ID: 000192604026

           S Y M M E T R I X    F I B R E   D I R E C T O R S

    Dir    Port  WWN               ACLX     Volume Set   Pnt to Pnt

                                   Enabled  Addressing

    FA-7E   0    50000972083EE918  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-7E   1    50000972083EE919  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8E   0    50000972083EE91C  No       No           Yes

    FA-8E   1    50000972083EE91D  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9E   0    50000972083EE920  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9E   1    50000972083EE921  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-10E  0    50000972083EE924  No       No           Yes

    FA-10E  1    50000972083EE925  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-7F   0    50000972083EE958  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-7F   1    50000972083EE959  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8F   0    50000972083EE95C  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8F   1    50000972083EE95D  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9F   0    50000972083EE960  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9F   1    50000972083EE961  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-10F  0    50000972083EE964  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-10F  1    50000972083EE965  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-7G   0    50000972083EE998  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-7G   1    50000972083EE999  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8G   0    50000972083EE99C  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8G   1    50000972083EE99D  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9G   0    50000972083EE9A0  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9G   1    50000972083EE9A1  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-10G  0    50000972083EE9A4  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-10G  1    50000972083EE9A5  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8H   0    50000972083EE9DC  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-8H   1    50000972083EE9DD  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9H   0    50000972083EE9E0  Yes      No           Yes

    FA-9H   1    50000972083EE9E1  Yes      No           Yes

86 Posts

October 17th, 2011 08:00

Hello, The team is going to move this thread to the Support Forums Community where your question can be addressed.

Thanks,

Jill

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October 17th, 2011 09:00

i do it by looking at DA count, there are 8 DA per engine

symcfg list -DA  ALL -sid 1234

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October 17th, 2011 09:00

This thread has been moved to the Symmetrix Support Forum.

148 Posts

October 17th, 2011 10:00

@Dynamox:

You mean  8 DA processors(2 DA) per engine ?

1.3K Posts

October 17th, 2011 10:00

2 engine system. (4 total directors, 7 8 9 and 10)

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October 17th, 2011 10:00

so wat can be made out of this ?

            S Y M M E T R I X    D I S K    D I R E C T O R S

                                            Num Of Serviced

    Ident  Symbolic  Numeric  Slot  Type    Hyper Volumes    Status

    DF-7A     07A       7       7   DISK        144          Online

    DF-8A     08A       8       8   DISK        161          Online

    DF-9A     09A       9       9   DISK        144          Online

    DF-10A    10A      10      10   DISK        161          Online

    DF-7B     07B      23       7   DISK        141          Online

    DF-8B     08B      24       8   DISK        159          Online

    DF-9B     09B      25       9   DISK        141          Online

    DF-10B    10B      26      10   DISK        159          Online

    DF-7C     07C      39       7   DISK        163          Online

    DF-8C     08C      40       8   DISK        141          Online

    DF-9C     09C      41       9   DISK        163          Online

    DF-10C    10C      42      10   DISK        141          Online

    DF-7D     07D      55       7   DISK        161          Online

    DF-8D     08D      56       8   DISK        143          Online

    DF-9D     09D      57       9   DISK        161          Online

    DF-10D    10D      58      10   DISK        143          Online

1.3K Posts

October 17th, 2011 11:00

Each engine has 2 directors.  Each director has 4 DA CPUs or slices, A,B,C and D.

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October 24th, 2011 03:00

director 7,8,9,10 are two engines. if next engine installed ,the number will be either 11,12 or 5,6

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October 24th, 2011 18:00

first order is 7,8(both from engine4) nd 9,10(both from engine5)

the next order is 5,6(both under engine 3) then 11,12(both under engine 6)

i try to remember this sequence wiith my  rule of nine; 4+5, then 3+6, then 2+7 and 1+8.

Is my synopisis correct Li?

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November 3rd, 2011 12:00

The question was about what engines are installed in a VMAX not how to connect on the FA ports.  How would you determine via SYMCLI what engines are in an array?  You have to display what directors you have and then know the relationship of director to engine layout which is in the manual I linked above.  The engines are installed center out as SKT outlined above.

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July 22nd, 2015 03:00

Hello!

Please run:

>symcfg -sid XXX list -env_data

one of the line will be:

Number of Enclosure Slots            :    N

where N is the amount of engines.

51 Posts

July 22nd, 2015 03:00

Hello!

Please run:

>symcfg -sid XXX list -env_data

one of the line will be:

Number of Enclosure Slots            :    N

where N is the amount of engines.

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July 22nd, 2015 06:00

I think you mean symcfg -sid XXX list -env_data :

On our four-engine VMAX 40K :

C:\>symcfg -sid 1234 list -env_data | grep "Number of Enclosure Slots"

     Number of Enclosure Slots            :    4

And on our two-engine VMAX 20K :

C:\>symcfg -sid 4567 list -env_data | grep "Number of Enclosure Slots"

      Number of Enclosure Slots            :    2

Incidentally, for a VMAX 10K, you'll see multiple enclosure slots, since it enumerates each bay separately:

C:\>symcfg -sid 3456 list -env_data | grep "Number of Enclosure Slots"

      Number of Enclosure Slots            :    1

      Number of Enclosure Slots            :    1

      Number of Enclosure Slots            :    1

      Number of Enclosure Slots            :    1

Thanks!

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July 22nd, 2015 06:00

Thanks!

Fixed, I've made syntax error

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