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Friendly Physical Disk Names in Oracle VM Manager with Dell SC Storage

Are you using Dell SC Series (Compellent) Storage with Oracle VM?  If you are, then you are probably sick of seeing physical disks named like this: I have written a script that will pull volume names from Dell Storage Manager (formerly Dell/Compellent Enterprise Manager) and set the physical disk name to match in Oracle VM Manager.  I have tested this will Dell Enterprise Manager 2015 R2 and Dell Storage Manager 2016 R1.  I have also tested this with Oracle VM Manager 3.3.3 and 3.3.4.  I suspect it will work with Oracle VM Manager 3.4.x but I have not tested it yet. Essentially, the script gets a list of volumes from Dell Storage Manager and a list physical disks from Oracle VM Manager.  It matches up the Page 83 information from both and sets the physical disk name in Oracle VM Manager to… Read More »Friendly Physical Disk Names in Oracle VM Manager with Dell SC Storage