Physically Accessing the VNX 5300

Hi,

Thanks for your question about how to access the VNX 5300. Do you have Unisphere installed on a management client? This guide should help. https://dell.to/3KqbEyq

Let us know if you have any additional questions.

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your reply.

Since the client is no longer available. I have installed VNX Unisphere on my laptop. I know the IP address for this storage (which was used to manage this array ealier). this is not the IP of the SP's or the control unit, I believe. I wanted to understand how do I phycically connect my laptop with the storage and how do I then access it.
My management wants to understand if there is any data in the storage that we can utilize.

Should I connect to communication port to manage this directly? if Yes, it should be with COM's? any specific speed. please advise.

Thanks
Saurabh

There are a few details I'd need to help a little bit. Do you have a Block-only VNX, or are there datamovers and control stations, too (Unified VNX) ?

If you have a control station, can you connect to its management LAN port via crossover cable and ping the IP? The control station also has a DB9 serial port, you can access the normal NAS CLI from there.

You won't see much on the serial connection of the SP. There is no way to access unisphere that way.

Hi Josh,

I too have a question about some issues I am having with accessing a VNX5300. Should I start a new discussion or continue on here? I have connected my laptop to the Service LAN Port of SP-A with an RJ-45 cable. I am able to ping 128.221.1.250. Opening a browser and attempting to go to 128.221.1.250 was unsuccessful. Opening "Unisphere Service Manager", clicking on "Login", entering 128.221.1.250 at the "Host name or IP address" field, and the clicking on "Connect" presented me with "The specified system is not reachable or the certificate on the system could not be validated."

Please let me know how to proceed.

Regards,
KMatDELL

Hi,

In the future it is better to create a new thread, but I can try to assist you here. Try the steps in this article https://dell.to/3Q4PK7P and https://dell.to/3zluxRh

Let us know if you have any additional questions.

Hi Josh,

Thanks for the quick response. I will take a look at those articles and let you know how it goes/if there are further question.

Regards,
KMatDELL