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To communicate with VMAX, Cisco UCS Director now supports a Windows-based EMC Solutions Enabler (SE). Before using this SE, install and configure a Secure Shell (SSH) server on it.
To set up an SSHD server, we recommend that you install Cygwin version 1.7.27, and use the SSH daemon on the host. Cygwin provides a Linux-like environment on Microsoft Windows. See Installing a Cygwin Package for information on downloading Cygwin and additional information about the SSHD server.
After you install the SSHD server on the Windows-based SE, modify the Path variable under System Variables to include the Solutions Enabler bin folder so that whoever uses SSH to get into the Windows SE can immediately run VMAX commands. After you install and configure the SSHD server, set up the new default paths to enable the user-installed software to override the system software.
Follow these steps to download and install Cygwin version 1.7.27.
Step 1 | Download the Cygwin executable from http://www.cygwin.com/. |
Step 2 | While installing the Cygwin package on the package selection screen, select the openssh and openssl packages to install. Ensure that you install the packages on a Windows-based host. |
Ensure that you can run the SYMCLI commands without providing the absolute path at the command prompt. You can verify SSH access using any SSH client.
Note | You can add libraries and legacy libraries, such as glibc, to the VM. You need gatekeepers to serve as Raw Device Mappings (RDMs). Allow 6,000 to 8,000 mappings for each RDM. |
Step 1 | Create the base
Linux image for the VM you will use.
For the base Linux image, you can use an SMC or SPA servers that run CentOS, version 5.7 x86, or x86_64. For an SMC server, allow 20 GB of space. For an SPA server, allow at least 120 GB. | ||
Step 2 | Assign a few gatekeepers as RDMs. | ||
Step 3 | Reboot the Linux VM. | ||
Step 4 | From the EMC
Powerlink site, download the EMC Solutions Enabler package for Linux and the
Services Management Application System (SMAS) package
se7310-Linux-i386-ni.tar.gz.
Use MD5 Checksum 9809ac14ed8bfcc19789d7d5671d6015. | ||
Step 5 | Using SCP, transfer the tar file to your VM. | ||
Step 6 | At a command prompt, enter the following command to decompress the tar file: [root@smc ~]# tar xzvf se7310-Linux-i386-ni.tar.gz | ||
Step 7 | Install the EMC Solutions Enabler by entering the following command: [root@smc ~]# ./se7310_install.sh -install] | ||
Step 8 | Verify that the emc/symcli bin folder is in the Linux path, with this directory structure: <symcli path>/bin. An example is: /opt/emc/symcli/bin. | ||
Step 9 | To connect to
the VMAX device from
Cisco UCS Director, you must update the PATH variable with the SYMCLI binary dir
by updating the .bashrc file for the user that logs in to VMAX.
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You must install an EMC VMAX Solutions Enabler on a Linux or Windows Virtual Machine (VM).
Note | If you have Solutions Enabler 8.0 installed, when adding an EMC VMAX account, all Symmetrix device names are padded with a zero. This may cause issues with rollback operations for tasks that were executed against an older version of Solutions Enabler. |