While containerization technologies have been around for years – think Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails – clearly they have been garnering a lot of attention lately. Throughout 2014, Docker gained significant momentum, with most major...

So I finally bit the bullet, and I’ve migrated this blog from Wordpress on AWS to Jekyll and Disqus on Github Pages. Because that’s what all the cool kids are doing.

Actually, my reasoning was...

If you work with offline SYMAPI databases frequently, you’ve probably encountered cases where you can’t open a DMX SYMAPI database on a recent version of Solutions Enabler. Getting around this typically means you must maintain...

This post is simply a collection of UNIX/Linux shell one-liners for SYMCLI. Well, I guess they’re not all one-liners, but they’re all pretty brief – to be pasted into a shell rather than executed from...

I spend a lot of time talking to VMAX customers about FASTVP deployment and administration best practices. FASTVP has lots of 'nerd knobs' -- and the mere presence of these optional parameters can sometimes cause...

Pretty much any SYMCLI command can be output in XML format by adding the optional flag “-output xml_e”. This flag can be used in both online and offline mode – see this post for...

One of the little-known features of SYMCLI is its ability to interrogate an offline SYMAPI database. This can be useful for safely running query scripts without the risk of affecting a production array. Or if...

Note: This post primarily covers the REST API in Unisphere for VMAX versions 1.6.x and prior. The REST API was overhauled in Unisphere for VMAX version 8.x, but still maintains backwards compatibility with the old...