Overview

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About Cisco UCS Director for EMC VNX, page 1

• VNX Tasks, page 2

About Cisco UCS Director for EMC VNXCisco UCSDirector supports EMCVNXBlock, File, and Unified accounts for the VNX versions 5100, 5200,5300, 5400, 5500, 5600, 5700, and 7500.

For a VNX Block account, you create the following:

• Storage pools

• Storage groups

• RAID groups

• Initiators

• Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs)

The reports available for VNX Block accounts include details on all of these items, as well as on storageprocessors, ports, data movers, and disk devices. You can also view tabular reports for RAID groups or hosts,and instant reports for file system allocation, the top five storage capacity file systems, the top five file systemsfile count, and the top five storage capacity volumes.

For a VNX File account, you create use either Common Internet File Servers (CIFS) or Network File System(NFS) Export. For CIFS, you create the CIFS servers and shares, and the Domain Name System (DNS)domains.

For NFS Export, you create the following:

• Storage pools for files

• File systems

• Interfaces

• Volumes

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• Mounts

The reports available for VNX File accounts include details on these items, as well as system overviewsummaries.

For a VNX Unified account, which combines VNX Block and VNX File, you perform all the steps neededfor both VNX block and VNX file accounts.

You can view any of the reports available for VNX block or VNX file accounts.

VNX Tasks

Step 1 On the menu bar, choose Policies and choose Orchestration.

Step 2 ChooseWorkflows.Step 3 Click Physical Storage Tasks, and choose EMC VNX > EMC VNX Tasks.

The tasks available for EMC VNX appear.

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