This page details on how to add/remove and zone additional storage from EMC Symmetrix.

Basically, if you are working on EMC Symmetrix DMX series, this may be the useful tips to help you work on Symmetrix administration.

symmaskdb commands Create and initializes a device masking database. On completion, the database device cannot be written to by the operating system. Note: This command only needs to be run once otherwise all SAN configuration is lost backup restore remove list database backups up the database to a specified file restore a database file removes the meta member devices lists for each symmetrix fibre director which devices in a symmetrix system a WWN can access lists all devices accessible to an HBA on a specified symmetrix system and all directors that access each device List the HBA assignments to devices Lists the capacity of devices assigned to a particular host #symmaskdb sid 1234 list capacity host HOSTNAME

init

list devs -wwn

list assignment -dev

list capacity -host

symdev commands list -v list list available devices detailed information of a device

show <symdevname> -noport list sympd commands

display meta device information list available devices

list

lists the symmetrix devices that are accessed through fibre channel and shows their controlling director, TID, LUN, device number and serial number. Also shows which device holds the device masking database (VCM). lists all the physical devices in the device masking database

list -vcm symcfg commands list -v

lists whether the symmetrix director has device masking turned on

list -address -fa -available lists all fibre directors in a symmetrix system and which all devices they can access list -sa all list -sa 15D -v -application list -connections list lists all fibre directors (FA) in a symmetrix system lists detailed information on a FA port list applications using the symmetrix list host connections to the array

symmask commands add devs add a device to the list of devices that a WWN can access in the database remove a device from the list of devices that a WWN can access in the database deletes all access rights for a WWN in the database

remove devs delete

replace set lockdown set visibility set lunoffset

allows one HBA to replace another sets or clears the fibre channel ID lockdown sets or clears visibility for noncontiguous LUNs sets or clears a LUN base/offset skip for noncontiguous LUNS. sets or clears heterogeneous host inform with distinctive attributes changes the AWWN for the specified WWN in the database and login history table causes the symmetrix system to refresh its WWN related memory tables with the contents of the database If you update the VCMDB you must run this command to see your changes discovers the HBA on the host and assigns AWWN to the login history table entries for thoses WWNs that are not set Lists foreach fibre director which hosts and HBAs are logged into the symmetrix. (displays the login history table contents) lists WWNs of the fibre HBAs on this host.

set heterogeneous

rename

refresh

discover hba

list logins

list hba symconfigure commands -sid <sid> -f <filename> verify -sid <sid> -f <filename> preview -sid <sid> -f <filename> commit

verify that we have access to the symmetrix and we can make changes confirm that the syntax is correct (since we use a mapping files) commit the changes to the database

Control and log files locations

/var/symapi/db/symapi_db.bin default symapi database file /var/symapi/config/netcnfg lists the network services available from that host the options file contains behavior parameters that can be set to critically change default behavior of SYMCLI operations, SYMAPI calls and their control actions identifies devices to skip over when looking for devices identifies devices not chosen as gatekeepers lists devices to be added to the symapi database logfile for symcli.symapi functions, calls, activities

/var/symapi/config/options

/var/symapi/config/symavoid /var/symapi/config/gkavoid /var/symapi/config/inqfile /var/symapi/log/symapi<date>.log