- I cannot export list of luns in storage group. I guess EMC wants customer to use ViPR SRM to run report (not sure if this is only applied to VMAX 40k)
- No more provision template for VMAX 40k and that is not convenient.
- Cannot change FAST priority in the GUI any more for SG of VMAX40k
- Heatmap is not shown in a single page.
Heat Map in 9.0
5. In Unisphere 8.4, if you want to delete meta members after dissolve a meta lun, you can select the option to delete meta members. However, it will only delete meta head in Unisphere 9. It will be fixed in Unisphere 9.1 according to support. Because there is no more meta from VMAX, I suspect the developer forget about the VMAX 40k.
6. There is a limitation with Unisphere 9.0. Only the first 1024 luns will be shown. You can use the filter to display the luns after the first 1024. The filter for lun label does not work too well in 8.x. However, once it is fixed in version 9, now, only the first 1024 luns will be shown. See EMC kb Unisphere for PowerMax: Maximum viewable amount is 1024 volumes(000529643)
There was a bug in earlier version of Unisphere 8.x. When you try to delete a meta lun under Virtual lun, it will crash the Unisphere GUI for VMAX 40k. It is fixed in Unisphere 8.4. Glad it is passed to Unisphere 9.0. Also, if you try to create metalun from Unisphere, striped is populated auto and cannot be changed. I have not tried to create concatenated lun with CLI in SE 9.0.
Just a reminder don't forget to change the smc password after installing Unisphere.
For VMAX 40k, you cannot change the Unisphere smc password running in SP. So, make sure to restrict IP access to SP from the network.
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Just upgrade to Unisphere 9.1 (12/2019)
It does fix the issue mentioned before for dissolve and delete meta luns. However, it generates 3 new problems.
a) AD login does not work after upgrade. (using local account at the moment)
b) Cannot customize performance alert for each thin pool / disk group. (no workaround)
c) Dash Board reduces the overall health by 20 points because SSD pool is 95% full (recommendation by vendor is to reserve only 1% of space given no lun is bounded / pinned to SSD and only thin provision is used). This is not an issue. Just ignore it.
Hopefully, next patch fixes it.
Also database in 9.1 is different. Upgrade fails at database upgrade. Since I ran all the monthly reports, I actually need to uninstall 9.1 and then install again in another folder. So, it is a fresh installation for me.
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Update to Unisphere 9.1.0.20 (11/2020)
AD login issue is still not resolved. Still using local account.
Alert customization for each Thin Pool / Disk Group seems fixed if I set it up in IE (won't work with Chrome).
I doubt the last one mentioned before will be fixed. Dash Board still reduce overall health by 20 points for SSD usage over 95%. I will probably stay in this version until migration to PowerMax.
