EMC VNX For File Simulator

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appear, just like that, in home labs. Fortunately,

companies such as EMC provide simulators. VNX
simulator, for example. Of course, this product is devoid
of block parts (FC) but it is a fully functional file-part
(including the full management interface). Completely
free. What does that give to us? Ability to check in
practice as it looks professional disk array and the
possibility to test several solutions. Replication between
arrays (this requires a two simulators) for example. And
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In this post I will show you how to install and configure

the EMC VNX for File (in the next post will be about
installing EMC Isilon and ViPR). The simulator is available
for free (with a licenses to support NFS, CIFS, Snapshot,
File Replicator and Retention) on EMC pages, or can be
downloaded directly from me. Import machine to
vSphere (or VMware Workstation / Player) is a standard
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demanding). The machine has two interfaces and needs
two IP addresses, if you have your own DNS server,
preferably immediately create appropriate records A /
PTR (to facilitate us swapping SSL certificates). Obviously
this is not a step required for proper operation. These
two addresses is for management, you will also need at
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At this stage we can log off (wait a few minutes) and go to

the management interface. Connect via web browser to
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needs Java and security settings to medium (Control
Panel -> Java). To use our simulator, we have to activate
all (or selected) licenses, we do it in the Settings ->
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The simulator in this form is ready and you can play with
it. If we want to use it for more serious tests (remember,
performance will not be the biggest) we need to make
three more steps. In the first step we stop array and add
its 2GB of RAM (in order to have a minimum of 6GB
RAM), without this, secondary controller (data_mover3)
will be inoperate (message slot_empty). In the second
step, we move one of two controllers (data_movers) for
the second, configured by us earlier, network interface
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The storage is configured with two pools tagged as

economy (about 20GB) and performance (about 90GB)
which should be sufficient for testing completely. I
personally installed the two VNX simulators, do I need to
test EMC VIPR which I will write in another post. Holders
of its own CA who want to replace the SSL certificates
which shows the Control Station (Unisphere) may look
here. Prepare the appropriate DataStore can be done in
two ways. The first method, traditional, boring and passe:
were create on the array side and connect it to the ESXi
traditionally. As it is the first of my posts about EMC
products, I describe here the other way. In this way, in a
software defined storage world, we use EMC VSI for
vSphere. It is a plugin for vCenter Web Client installed as
a virtual appliance and providing integrated support for
EMC product (available for free). Installation is very
simple (deploy ova), after installing, configuring and
starting the appliance, log in to the administrative
interface and integrate VSI with our vCenter (https:
//IP_appliance:8443/vsi_usm/admin Username: admin /
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In the next step, go to the vSphere Web Client and in the

vCenter-> EMC VSI-> Solutions Integration Services
connect your VSI:
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connecting vCenter to VSI, you need Administrator
privileges to the vCenter for this login. The effect of
integration:
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Now in the Storage Systems add your virtual VNX array:
The integration proceeds without problem:
And finally we can create our new datastore for the

virtual VNX arrays from the menu available by clicking on
the level of a cluster or a single server:
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Parameters of the sample datastore:
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This method of creating datastores is much more

efficient and faster than the traditional model. VNX for
File work very well, I highly recommend testing them.
Installation instructions can also be downloaded from
here, it is also written on how to extend disk space. If
there are any questions I will be glad to answer them.
EDIT 2015.03.16 @Sly:
Boring and old-fashioned method looks like this:
1. Create a new network interface, address given above
are intended only to manage VNX. This interface is
mandatory to serve CIFS/NFS:
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2. Create a new filesystem:
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3. Create NFS export:
4. Mount new datastore:
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Sly
2015/03/15 at 17:42
Hey Piotr,
Thank you very much for your contribution! Its
great to have someone who masters the whole
thing to share that knowledge!
Ok, my question, I need to test ESX snapshots
from a famous Backup product. For this, I
though of using the VNX simulator, as it can
interact with vCenter/ESX as a real life SAN
environment. I saw on your blog that the cool
way was to use the plugin for VMWare Web
Client with vCenter. But in my case, I am doing
the tests through ESX only (for now). Would you
mind explaining the old way?
What should I do in order to set a new
DataStore on the VNX simulator for my ESXi 5.0
server?
Thanks in advance!!
Cheers,
Sly
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Piotr Pisz
2015/03/16 at 13:38
Hello Sly,
I updated the article with a description of
the manual method, only four simple
steps. But remember, this is not the
environment type Block/SAN. Cellera (aka
VNX for File) is only a simple NAS, but I
think for your test will be ok. All backup
solution providers operate on the same
VM snapshot method.
Regards,
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Sly
2015/03/18 at 01:43
Hi Piotr!
I just followed all your steps and finally
managed to configure a new DataStore on the
VNX! How cool is that! :))
Thanks again for everything!!!
Cheers,
Sly
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Piotr Pisz
2015/03/20 at 07:52
Hi Sly,
If you want, you can install on your ESXi
vSphere APIs for Array Integration Plugin
2.0 this VIB add support for VAAI on VNX
for File. Yoy can download it from EMC
(any VNX download section). Ofcourse, it is
not necessary, its only add-on :)
Regards,
Piotr
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Sly
2015/03/20 at 11:43
Hi Piotr,
I finally found the download link in
the EMC support page. It took me a
little while as the words plug-in could
not be used in my search! ;-) I see it
was just released by EMC a few days
ago! March 16, 2015! Will give it a try.
https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL36290_vStorageAPIs-for-Array-Integration-(VAAI)Plug-in-2.0.zip
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Apart from this, I used the same firts

steps that you provided in your blog
to create a CIFS share:
Create a new network interface on
VNX
Create filesystem
Then create a Server and a Share
Map network drive from Windows
servers.
It works great.
It is cool to have to opportunity to do
all these things myself, as I had to
rely on the corresponding teams
(SAN team, VMWare team, etc) for
each one of these in real world!
Even though VNX is already a
dinosaur, with its 4-5 years
technology, it is still cool to have to
opportunity to use it in a simulator.
Question: Do you know if there could
be a way to test NDMP with this VNX
simulator? I have a NetApp simulator
that does provide NDMP, but it does
not have the license to snapshot. VNX
has snapshot, but I cannot see how
to use NDMP. I am left out with no
possibility to test NAS snapshots
from within Commvault!
Best regards!
Sly
Reply
Piotr Pisz
2015/03/20 at 13:00
Hello,
Im sorry but I do not know
anything about NetApp and
NDMP, I will not help you in this
matter :(
Regards,
Piotr
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Sly
2015/03/20 at 18:22
Ok, interesting.
How do you suggest to install the VIB on the
ESXi?
I tried the following, without results:
0. Firts I renamed the downloaded
EMCNasPlugin-1.0-11.zip package to
EMC_VIB.zip
1. I enabled ESXi Shell and SSH on the ESXi 5.0
2. I used WinSCP to copy the downloaded ZIP
from EMC to /tmp on the ESXi
3. I connected to ESXi with Putty and tried: esxcli
software vib -d /tmp/EMC_VIB.zip
Do you see where I am doing wrong? I also tried
with unzipped package, but then I did not know
to treat the vib as it was in another folder than
the index.xml..
Anyway, if you have a light for this.. ;-)
Thanks in advance!!
Regards,
Sly
Reply
Piotr Pisz
2015/03/23 at 09:02
Hi Sly,
Copy VIB to /var/log/vmware, install and
reboot ESXi :-)
/var/log/vmware # esxcli software vib
install -d EMCNasPlugin-2.0-5.zip
Installation Result
Message: The update completed
successfully.
Reboot Required: true
VIBs Installed:
EMC_bootbank_EMCNasPlugin_2.0-5
VIBs Removed:
VIBs Skipped:
/var/log/vmware #
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Regards,
Piotr
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Often we do not have access to the specific vendor

appear, just like that, in home labs. Fortunately,

EMC VNX for File Simulator

Or try the Polish version! :)

In this post I will show you how to install and configure

VNX version is 8.1 which is for the moment the newest:

Portal Hyperic iApp

ThinApp Tomcat VCA

We can also download version 7.1.6 (the version that is

When you start the machine, log in to it as root/nasadmin

+1 Recommend this on Google

And configure the network by typing netconfig -d eth0

When configuring interfaces is end, issue the command

can disable ipv6:

At this stage we can log off (wait a few minutes) and go to

EMC VNX for

(username and password is root / nasadmin). Unisphere

And the last step, restart storage by reboot command.

The storage is configured with two pools tagged as

In the next step, go to the vSphere Web Client and in the

Now in the Storage Systems add your virtual VNX array:

The integration proceeds without problem:

And finally we can create our new datastore for the

Parameters of the sample datastore:

This method of creating datastores is much more

2. Create a new filesystem:

3. Create NFS export:

4. Mount new datastore:

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