Dmx is direct matrix architecture; it contains system bay and System bay.

System bay contains front end channel directors, back end disk directors. Global memory placed. Fully configured 0-16 directories placed. Each director contains 4 processors, processors will be A, B, C and D. Processors having 2 ports. And designated as 0 and 1. In the same way back-end directors will have processors naming convention will be A , B, C and D and ports designated as A and B. All As are connected to C loop drive, All Bs are connected to D loop drive. Front-end directors are connected to hosts and back-end directors are connected to disks. In between we do have global memory cache. 512 GB of global cache memory available in Dmx. In this 256 GB available for usage and remaining for memory vault protection. Each director connects to global cache memory through 128 point-to-point connections. Dmx total support 2400 disks. Storage bay contains 2 cabins, each cabin having 120 disks.

In DMX3 and DMX4 maximum capacity of a single device is 65520 cylinders ie 60GB. In Vmax maximum capacity of a single device is 262668 cylinder ie 240GB.

Fan in means number of array ports visible to a single HBA initiator(host

adapter) Fan out means maximum initiator(Host Adapter) login per array port.ie,maximum initiator WWNs that an be logged into a single FA port In DMX3/DMX4 5773 code FC Fan out is 126 "Unlic" means unlicensed. The path is not licensed. unlic means that you can only opt for BasicFailover policy in PP (simply menas unlicensed).If the path is not licensed there wont be any communication through this path. To resolve the issue with LUN from Symmetrix : 1. powermt check_registration (Make sure the license shows with full capabilities.) 2. powermt set policy=so dev=all (Set the Policy to SymmOpt.) 3. powermt display dev=all (Make sure all device paths are now licensed.) 4. powermt save (Save configuration.) To resolve the issue with LUN from CLARiiON : 1. powermt check_registration (Make sure the license shows with full capabilities.)

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powermt set policy=co dev=all (Set the Policy to ClarOpt.) powermt display dev=all (Make sure all device paths are now licensed.) powermt save (Save configuration.) An eDisk is a logical representation of an external LUN when it is added into the VMAX configuration.This eDisk will be configuring in an external disk group or in a virtual RAID group. DX is a new director emulation similar to DA director that we use in new Vmax arrays. DXstands for DA External.After the introduction of Federated TieredStorage (FTS), we can attach external SAN based storage arrays to Vmax.Those external storage space are configured through DX director. ie, DA(Disk Adapter) support internal symmetrix devices and DX(DA External) will support external storage devices.

LUN allocation:

We need to check for free divices by using below cmd Symdev sid 1234 list noport Here we will get free device Now we need to connect the port , for that we need to find available address Syncfg -sid 1234 dir 8A -p 0 addr available Here we will get the free available port , write the cmd in notefile MAP dev 0110 to dir 1A :0 ,lun=032; MAP dev 0110 to dir 16A :0 ,lun=032; Now we need to run map the device Symconfigure sid 1234 path preview Symconfigure sid 1234 path prepare Symconfigure sid 1234 path commit Now we need to check the wheather the device is mapped or not Symmaskdb sid 1234 list assignment -dev 110 Now we need to mask device, for we need wwn

Symmask sid 1234 add device 110 dir 1D -p 0 - dev wwpn

Symmask refresh sid 1234 (vcm data base will update) Symcfg sid 1234 discover (it will update host side symAPI databasefile)