Issue Joining VNX1 and VNX2 Unisphere Domains

The main benefit of using Unisphere Domains is that they give you ability to manage all of your VNXs by connecting to just one array. If you have an old Clariion you’ll have to use a so called Multi-Domain. VNX1 and VNX2 arrays can join a single domain.

Recently I’ve encountered an issue where this didn’t work quite well. When joining VNX1 to a VNX2 I got the following error:

CIMOM Can’t get the VNX hardware class from – ip 172.10.10.10 – Error Connecting SSL. Error details: A system call error (errno=10057).

As it turned out EMC disabled SSL 3.0 support in recent Block OE versions. As a result it’s broken Unisphere Domain connectivity with arrays running Flare 32 Patch 209 or older, which still use SSL 3.0.

Solution is to upgrade Block OE to a version higher than Flare 32 Patch 209 where SSL 3.0 is disabled. Or as a workaround you can connect arrays in a Multi-Domain. To find out how, read one of my earlier blog posts: How to Configure VNX Unisphere Domains

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VNX Unisphere Java Issues

If you are a systems engineer, I’m sure you have to deal with Java compatibility issues all the time as I do. You install a certain Java version to fix one client and it immediately brakes another one.

I reached a new level of ridiculousness when I had a customer with two EMC storage arrays, VNX1 in production and VNX2 at DR. One Java version worked for Unsiphere client on VNX1, but broke VNX2 client and vice versa.

This was quite painful until I found a solution on EMC community forums. There is a Java version which works for both arrays and it’s Java 7u51. I have tested it on the following Block OEs and it works like a charm:

• VNX1 Block OE 05.32.000.5.209
• VNX2 Block OE 05.33.008.5.119

Let me know if this helped you as well.