Three drives go to status "failure predicted" on MD1000 after reboot
On one of our MD1000 units we had OMSA warning "failure predicted" for disk 11. I rebooted the server and MD1000 to see if that would make any difference in the status -- not only did disk 11 status...
View ArticleAdding NAS NFS as a Datastore on EXSi 5
HiWe've purchased an NX3200 NAS and have created a folder, which i've enabled NFS. The virtual disk on which the NFS enabled folder has been configured to RAID 5 and using a 1MB block size. I added...
View ArticlePower Vault Modular Disk Storage Manager
Hi,I am not able to find below versions for these utilities, Can somebody help me where I can get these?1) Power Vault Modular Disk Storage Manager v 10.80.G6.472) Dell remote console Switch Software V...
View Articlemd3200i controller WARN: Controller entering SODReboot lockdown state..
Hi ,Can somebody assist me this error on md3200i, controller WARN: Controller entering SODReboot lockdown state.. :Send <BREAK> for Service Interface or baud rate change03/27/13-16:28:30...
View ArticleDell PowerVault 220S Configuration Mismatch
I recently experienced a power failure on a Dell PowerVault 775N Server, which has connected to it a PowerVault 220S Storage device. Once power was restored and the Server rebooted, I get a beeping...
View ArticlePossible to download software for for RD1000 backup unit in Poweredge T410?
Hi,We have a Poweredge T410 containing an internal RD1000 backup unit.We have re-installed the OS on the server and need to install the Symantec Backup client which I understand comes on the RD1000...
View ArticleMD3200/3220 SSD Cache
Hello -I did quite a bit of searching, and the forum appears to be bone-dry in terms of info on the SSD Cache option for the MD3200 or 3220. I have a hunch this is primarily due to "who" buys the...
View ArticleMD1000 enclosure and HBA card not showing disk address.
Hello, One of our server is using a LSI HBA 9205-8e to access two Dell MD1000 disk enclosures. The server is running a Debian squeeze (6.0.7) amd64 and the controller firmware is flashed with the...
View ArticleDell PowerVault MD3220 SAS DAS and vSphere 5.x High Availability (HA)
I would like to take advantage of VMWare's High Availability module using the following setup:1 X PowerVault MD3220 SAS DAS2 X PowerEdge R720'sVMWare's HA documentation says that shared storage via...
View Articlechange from Sequential Mode to Random mode - how?
I have 4 PowerVault 122T tape drives. Three of them say SEQ on the front lcd screen. One does not.I'm using Backup Exec 2010 R3 to restore data from old tapes. I have 2 tape drives connected to a...
View ArticleDell 6850 and Sun SDLT 600 tape
What would I need to attach a Sun SDLT 600 tape drive to our Dell Poweredge 6850 running Red Hat 4?
View ArticlePowerVault TL4000 Error
I'm getting the following error and like to know if there is anything I can do to correct it. All the magazines ejects properly and the unit has been powered off and back on with the same error....
View ArticleRMC IP ADDRESS
I have a cleint asking how they would ascertain the RMU IP address for a DELL PV132T. They are inexperienced with the device and are trying to carry out a firmware upgrade remotely and the chosen...
View ArticleML6000 firmware update
Hi all,I'm having some issues updating the firmware on my ML6000, which errors, then refers to the RAS tickets. When checking any tickets everything is clear - no new tickets were generated.We're...
View ArticleDell Now Offers Server 2012 on the NX400
We received our NX400 with Server 2008 Standard Version today. I went online to review it's configuration and noticed that Server 2012 is now offered for the same price, ARRG!! I haven't even...
View ArticlePowerVault MD3660i - with 46 10K RPM disks and 2 SSD - question
Hello, room.Our reseller recommended us a MD3600i with 46 SAS spindles and 2 SSDs. They said the 2 SSDs would be configured to give the array some caching or something to that extent, which leads to...
View ArticleAdding additional drives to existing NAS
I am new to any form of NAS unit so this is stupid ,but i have installed a NX3200 and its all working and good with a NFS share to my vm environment . I am running our of space with the 4 HDDs that...
View Articleno luns available under mapping
I created a few virtual disk on the md3200i and i am trying to assign these to a hostgroup I created. I already added the esxi host but when i go to host mappings, add lun , I am not able to see any...
View ArticleMultiple MD sans to ESX cluster
Hi, I currently have a 3 node ESX cluster (3 x Dell R720) which is connected to MD3620F (12 x MD1200E) via 2 x Qlogic fibre channel adapters. I am reaching the disk capacity of the existing SAN and...
View ArticleMD3660F and MD1200e connectivity
Hi, Can you add MD1200e expansion enclosures to MD3660F or do you have to use the MD3600E (60disk) expansion enclosures. Also can you mix MD1200E with Md3600E in the same SAN?
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