Tuesday, December 02, 2008

emc CX300 to CX3-20 conversion done

The conversion is finally done. The hardware has been sitting behind my desk for months and this weekend it finally happened. It went off without a hitch and it took about 7 hours as expected. The Dell guy knew exactly what he was doing and as he should have. Prior to the conversion I prepped the rack by moving the DAE's up 1U to make space at the bottom for the new storage processor 1U unit. If I hadn't done that it would have taken an extra hours to move all that stuff up.

We've also added our 5th DAE with 1TB SATAII drives for a total of 15TB. After the hot spare and the LUN overhead I've got ~12.5TB to play with.

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