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The system's Command Line Interface (CLI) allows administrators and other system users to perform supported management operations. It is preinstalled on the XMS and can be accessed using the standard SSH protocol.

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client.

The standard TCP port 22 has been assigned for contacting SSH servers.

You can login using the builtin xmsadmin account.

References: Introduction to the EMC XtremIO STORAGE ARRAY (April 2015), page 50

EMC recommended setting for Solaris include that the /etc/system file be modified to include the following parameter:

* Set maximum IO size

set maxphys = 0x400000

This also requires increase of the maximum I/O size for the disk driver. The corresponding entry and file for this change are different for different Solaris versions, as follows:

For Solaris 10 (SPARC):

File: /kernel/drv/ssd.conf

Setting: ssd_max_xfer_size=0x400000;

For Solaris 10 (x86):

File: /kernel/drv/sd.conf

Setting: sd_max_xfer_size=0x400000;

Etc.

References:EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Oracle Solaris, page 167

https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu5132.pdf

Second write workload IOPS = 2 GB/s divided by 128 kB = 2 x1,073,741,824 / (128 x 1,024) = 16384 IOPs.

Total IOPS required would be 150,000, from the first workload, plus 16384, totaling 166384.

A 2 X-Brick cluster provides 300K Read/write IOPS so it would be adequate.

Storage capacity and performance scale linearly, such that two X-Bricks supply twice the IOPS, four X-Bricks supply four times the IOPS, six X-Bricks supply six times the IOPS and eight X-Bricks supply eight times the IOPS of the single X-Brick configuration.

Note: Choose an EMC XtremIO system and scale out linearly by adding more XtremIO X-Bricks.

References: https://store.emc.com/en-us/Product-Family/EMC-XtremIO-Products/EMC-XtremIO-All-Flash-Scale-Out-Array/p/EMC-XtremIO-Flash-Scale-Out

An example of a generic wrapper function that queries XtremIO REST API using HTTP/POST to create a new object with specified properties.

References: https://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h14980-wp-accelerate-sql-lifecycle-management.pdf

The XtremIO's RESTful API allows HTTPS-based interface for automation, orchestration, query and provisioning of the system. With the API, third party applications can be used to control and fully administer the array.

Normally you would access the API using some form of programming/scripting language, such as Python or Perl. However for the purposes of learning or testing concepts there are a number of tools that work better, such as HTTPRrequester and curl.

* Curl is a command-line tool that exists in all Linux distributions, and is available for most other Unix OSes as well as Windows.

To use curl to access XtremIO you'll need to pass it a few options, such as the username/password to access the array (any valid account on the XtremIO XMS will work), the URL of the API, and potentially a few options such as -k to tell curl not to validate the SSL certificate (presuming you don't have a valid certificate installed), and -s (silent) to stop curl displaying it's progress as it downloads the response.

* HTTPRequester is a browser extension that is available for both Chrome and Firefox.

As with for curl, you'll need to provide a username/password, which is done by clicking on the ''Authentication...'' box, which adds two boxes below the URL for the username and the password.

References:https://blog.docbert.org/using-the-xtremio-rest-api-part-1/