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Anyone know anything about working @ EMC^2 corporation

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ones3k

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Well I'm graduating this month, and i'm going to work at EMC^2 www.emc.com starting july 10th.

I interviewed with EMC^2 back in January, and accepted their offer in February. Do any of you work at EMC^2 and/or know anyone that works there? What are their thoughts about the company, work environment, etc.

Thanks
 
wow...congratulations. Ever since I saw their partitioning schematics for hte first time I was amazed by their work. Their arrarys are truly awe-inspiring.

When my boss was unfolding the schematics for the symmetrix machiens that they had I was like ":Q"


 
Originally posted by: ones3k
Well I'm graduating this month, and i'm going to work at EMC^2 www.emc.com starting july 10th.

I interviewed with EMC^2 back in January, and accepted their offer in February. Do any of you work at EMC^2 and/or know anyone that works there? What are their thoughts about the company, work environment, etc.

Thanks
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They are a great company to work for. You will have your hands on all kinds of cool stuff. Clarion Nas servers, Symmettrix Boxes, You will learn all about meta's and hypers and how to carve disks up and present then to a operating system from the san via fibre channel. EMC is cutting edge as far as storage goes. So much you will learn and it will seem overwhelming when you start but it will get easier as you work with the technology. = )
 
They're about 5 minutes from my house. I applied to them but never got a response 🙁 It's too bad.. would've been a hell of a commute! 😉
 
I wish I understood everything about how the EMC fibrechannel cards work. One of the servers I admin is connected to 20 disks though a SAN fabric though 2 EMC fibrechannel cards, and I only know enough to be dangerous.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
I wish I understood everything about how the EMC fibrechannel cards work. One of the servers I admin is connected to 20 disks though a SAN fabric though 2 EMC fibrechannel cards, and I only know enough to be dangerous.
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Those cards are called HBA's host bust adapters.. They are connect directly to the FA of the clarion or symettrix storage array or to the switch, typicall mcdata or cisco, brocade. It's really not that complicated. Everything in san needs to be zoned, meaning you say this host using this hba card can see this storage on this clarion server etc... That is just the basic description its lot more than that. Its really important to know the arhictechure of storage array you are working with. Like Clarions have two service processors which control access to the storage, spa, spb ( service processor a and B ) etc etc...
 
Originally posted by: orenero
Originally posted by: Evadman
I wish I understood everything about how the EMC fibrechannel cards work. One of the servers I admin is connected to 20 disks though a SAN fabric though 2 EMC fibrechannel cards, and I only know enough to be dangerous.
Click to expand...

Those cards are called HBA's host bust adapters.. They are connect directly to the FA of the clarion or symettrix storage array or to the switch, typicall mcdata or cisco, brocade. It's really not that complicated. Everything in san needs to be zoned, meaning you say this host using this hba card can see this storage on this clarion server etc... That is just the basic description its lot more than that. Its really important to know the arhictechure of storage array you are working with. Like Clarions have two service processors which control access to the storage, spa, spb ( service processor a and B ) etc etc...
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About 90% of what you just said went right over my head. Do you know of a good place to read up on the basics of how/what a FA ,mcdata, brocade, zones, clarion servers and such are? I understand that it is a HBA; that was pretty mcuh all I understood 😛. My SAN fabric knowledge is extreamly limited. Thankfully, I do not need to know it for what I do, but I would like to know so Ic an have intelligent conversations.

For example, one of the SQL servers I admin appears to have a disk bottle neck (the disk is an array conencted though this fabric) where my disk queue goes over 600, when anything > 2 per spindle is considered bad. Unfortunately, I have no idea how many spindles are on the other side of the conenction from me. All I see on my side is 20 disks 18 GB each. I have no idea if they are RAID 1, 5, 10, etc. so I can't do some math.

Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a trouble shooting thread (too on topic for off topic 🙂) but I would love any good links, or a book recomendation.
 
Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: orenero
Originally posted by: Evadman
I wish I understood everything about how the EMC fibrechannel cards work. One of the servers I admin is connected to 20 disks though a SAN fabric though 2 EMC fibrechannel cards, and I only know enough to be dangerous.
Click to expand...

Those cards are called HBA's host bust adapters.. They are connect directly to the FA of the clarion or symettrix storage array or to the switch, typicall mcdata or cisco, brocade. It's really not that complicated. Everything in san needs to be zoned, meaning you say this host using this hba card can see this storage on this clarion server etc... That is just the basic description its lot more than that. Its really important to know the arhictechure of storage array you are working with. Like Clarions have two service processors which control access to the storage, spa, spb ( service processor a and B ) etc etc...
Click to expand...


About 90% of what you just said went right over my head. Do you know of a good place to read up on the basics of how/what a FA ,mcdata, brocade, zones, clarion servers and such are? I understand that it is a HBA; that was pretty mcuh all I understood 😛. My SAN fabric knowledge is extreamly limited. Thankfully, I do not need to know it for what I do, but I would like to know so Ic an have intelligent conversations.

For example, one of the SQL servers I admin appears to have a disk bottle neck (the disk is an array conencted though this fabric) where my disk queue goes over 600, when anything > 2 per spindle is considered bad. Unfortunately, I have no idea how many spindles are on the other side of the conenction from me. All I see on my side is 20 disks 18 GB each. I have no idea if they are RAID 1, 5, 10, etc. so I can't do some math.

Anyway, I don't want to turn this into a trouble shooting thread (too on topic for off topic 🙂) but I would love any good links, or a book recomendation.
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If your EMC hardware is still under support and you are the admin, you can qualify to sign up for a powerlink account.. http://powerlink.emc.com/ Sign up register and you may need your emc contact person's information when you sign up. All documentation can be found in there. A good training course to take in general is anything on the cisco mds 9500 series.. http://www.fireflycom.com/
 
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