{"id":1772,"date":"2013-08-28T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:19:31","slug":"emc-my-dog-ate-my-sps-but-i-still-need-to-use-write-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/emc-my-dog-ate-my-sps-but-i-still-need-to-use-write-cache\/","title":{"rendered":"EMC &#8211; My dog ate my SPS but I still need to use write cache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone contacted me via my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">About page<\/a> a little while ago to ask how to use write cache on their CX without having an SPS. It&#8217;s worth noting that doing this outside of a lab environment is a really bad idea, as the\u00a0point of the SPS is that you&#8217;ll have sufficient time to flush cache to disk prior to losing power to the array. But anyway, in case you missed it, here&#8217;s what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Use EMCRemote to access the console of the SP. If you&#8217;re using a CX4, you can get some instructions on how to do that <a title=\"accessing remotelyanywhere for clariion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/clariion_setup_remotely_anywhere_v0.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Fire up a command prompt, then run <strong>flarecons d f a<\/strong> (to access\u00a0SP A). Then\u00a0run <strong>setcache -nosps<\/strong> (to override the SPS state). You should then be able to enable write cache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone contacted me via my About page a little while ago to ask how to use write cache on their CX without having an SPS. It&#8217;s worth noting that doing this outside of a lab environment is a really bad idea, as the\u00a0point of the SPS is that you&#8217;ll have sufficient time to flush cache [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,60,5],"tags":[371,24,554,81,170,21,364,363,82],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clariion-emc-storage-storage","category-emc-storage","category-storage","tag-cache","tag-clariion","tag-cx","tag-cx3","tag-cx4","tag-emc","tag-emcremote","tag-remotelyanywhere","tag-sps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}