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February 7th, 2015 02:00

Gatekeeper devices not found

Hi,

I tried to execute the command in my vmax array, but no devices found, does it mean that there are no GK devices created for the array ?

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No gatekeeper devices found

1. Is this mandatory to have the gatekeeper device ?

2. Are the gatekeepers created and mapped only for the management hosts where SE is installed ?

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February 7th, 2015 06:00

gatekeepers need to be created and defined.

to create gatekeeper devices (recommended 6 dedicated gatekeepers per host that will be talking to the array, symcli, Unisphere for VMAX ..etc)

symconfigure -sid 123 -cmd "create gatekeeper count=6, emulation=FBA;" commit

There is no reason to present gatekeeprs to a host unless it's interracting with array in some way.

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February 9th, 2015 22:00

Got it, Thanks ugin for your prompt response

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February 9th, 2015 22:00

GK devices needs to be presented to the host where you will issue commands ( preferably MGMT host).
Other host does not require it

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February 9th, 2015 22:00

Hi Dynamox

Thanks for your answers

So we need to present gate keeper devices only to the management host (SE/symcli/unisphere installed), not required to create GK devices for the standard host where the storage is provisioned from VMAX, am i right ?

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