i have connected a md1200 to my esxi 5 host server.
one large raid 5 array 11TB total disk.
I would like 500GB for my VM
But I would then like 2 x 5TB volumes presented to the VM.
How would i accomplish this?
thanks.
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presenting MD1200 volume to vmware VM
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virtual disk not on preferred path
i keep getting this warning on the md3200i. I changed the disk group to preferred path as well as all the luns under it but it keeps going back to the other non prefereed path. any idea?
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POWERVAULT MD1000 AND 12TH GENERATION SERVERS
Is the PowerVault MD1000 compatible with 12th generation Dell PowerEdge servers such as the r520?
If so, can I install a Dell perc 6/e controller in a Dell 12th generation server?
Anything else to be aware of?
THANKS.
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MD3000i physical disk-side: channel 2
Hi, I am got two error stating:
Summary
Node ID: MD3000i
Host IP Address:
Host ID: Out-of-Band
Event Error Code: 1209
Event occurred: Aug 17, 2013 6:15:42 AM
Event Message: Physical Disk channel set to Degraded
Component type: Channel
Component location: Physical Disk-side: channel 2
Summary
Node ID: MD3000i
Host IP Address:
Host ID: Out-of-Band
Event Error Code: 1513
Event occurred: Aug 17, 2013 6:15:42 AM
Event Message: Individual physical disk - Degraded path
Component type: Channel
Component location: Physical Disk-side: channel 2
We called support and they looked at the logs and said it didn't appear that anything was wrong, but one of our raid controllers had a lot more errors then the other one. And the thought one of the disks might be going bad. The array is in "not optimal" status. It seemed to be performing just fine but it make me nervous. The array itself is blinking amber on the front left face but everything else, disks, power,controllers are all green lights. I have read in this form that in some cases this is a bug in the firmware and or from a previously failed drive. Support said our logs were pretty big and the alert might have been triggered by that, which doesnt make a lot of sense to me. My tech that i had check out the error said its not a big deal, it still make me nervous since my googleing hasnt found may answers. Has anyone run into this before? What was the fix/resolution? Thanks in advance.
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Power Edge 1600SC Boot problem
After 2 1/2 months of running, I came in to find my Power Edge 1600SC beeping at the top of it speaker capacity (once every 2 secs about). OS was still running fine, and no error messages on screen or external warning lights were active.
I shutdown the server, powered it off for about 5 mins, then powered it back on. It started to boot then stopped at Checking SCSI Devices SpinUp : 100% and will not go past that point.
It has two 36 GIG SCSI drives installed.
Any Ideas?
I shutdown the server, powered it off for about 5 mins, then powered it back on. It started to boot then stopped at Checking SCSI Devices SpinUp : 100% and will not go past that point.
It has two 36 GIG SCSI drives installed.
Any Ideas?
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Replacing LTO4 to LTO drive in PowerVault TL2000 tape library and some more questions
Hello.
I'd have TL2000 tape library with fiber channel (service tag XXXXXXX) and want to replace internal LTO4 tape drive to LTO5. Advice please, it's possible, and if yes, which drive i must buy?
Also i have one more question, which optical cable i need to connect it to HP Procurve GBIC?
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Cannot identify Library Path in Device Manager
I have a PowerVault TL2000 with 2 IBM 3580 LTO3-HH drives. I do NOT have an iscsi-to-SAS module in the back of the TL2000. However, I do have the SAS cable plugged from the back of the TL2000 into the server, and a network cable from the tape drive directly attached to the server. I am able to see a single drive, but using TSM, I need to define a path to the library. Does anyone know what I have to do/install to be able to see the library in the device manager?
Thanks,
Don Hipp
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Moving MD1000 to new server
I have a MD1000 w/ split config.
one volume is connected to a R710 PERC 6/e
The other is connected to a PE 2950 w/ PERC 6.
The 2950 will not boot, possible HW issue
Can I connect the second RAID connection to the 710 with out data loss? Import foriegn config?
Thanks
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Add storage to MD3000
OK I have spent some time looking around for a guide on how to add disks to our SAN and can't really find anything definitive.
We currently have a 10 disk RAID 5 SAN connected to 2 Dell PE servers in a Windows failover cluster. We have 1 Disk group containing 2 virtual disks (1 for Cluster Quorum and one that contains virtual servers). We are currently nearly out of space and I have purchased 5 x new disks to add to the SAN. So I guess I have a few questions;
1. Can I physically install all disks at once? Can this be done live?
2. The Add Free Capacity (Physical Disks) command says "You can use this free capacity to create more virtual disks within the disk group" however I want to expand the virtaul disk that my VHD's are stored on. Can this be done? And can it be done live?
3. Does anyone have a guide? The Dell Users manual for the MD3000 isn't overly descriptive.
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Cache policy for performance optimization
Hi,
What could be the correct DAS configuration for 'Media Read Policy', 'Write Policy' and 'Disk Cache Policy' in order to maximize storage performance.
Thanks
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Dell PowerVault 114x - Error Code 6, tape won't eject.
I can't seem to locate a definitive explanation in regards to this issue.
We use a Dell PowerVault 114x for our backup needs. The other day, I swapped the tape over, and once the tape was loaded, it started displaying the error code "6" on the display. When I press the manual eject, nothing happens.
Anyone able to shed any light on what's going on?
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Dell Modular Disk Storage Hardware Provider service terminates during VSS Backup
On my Windows 2012 Hyper-V Failover cluster, using 2 R710 Servers with iSCSI and MD3220I SAN. During backup (Altaro Hyper-V Backup), I am getting these 3 errors from both servers during the nightly backup. Service has been set to restart.
"The Modular Disk Storage Hardware Provider service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service. ** EventID: 7031"
"Faulting application name: SMPROV~1.EXE, version: 10.84.26.2, time stamp: 0x50405699 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16579, time stamp: 0x51637f77 Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000ebd59 Faulting process id: 0x414 Faulting application start time: 0x01ce9f773f388ae3 Faulting application path: C:\PROGRA~2\Dell\MDSTOR~1\VDS_VSS\provider\SMPROV~1.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: d9128602-0c14-11e3-940c-dc509918130b
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: ** EventID: 1000"
"An attempt was made to issue a command to a password protected storage system and the correct password is not known. ** EventID: 5004"
I have contacted Altaro and their support has never seen these errors and they claim they are just doing a VSS backup, nothing special. My Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster has never seen these errors for over 2 years.
Anybody help here???
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LTO4 Error code 6 blinking
I have a problem to get an Dell LTO4 internal streamer working. First of all I received a total of 6 SAS cards from Dell before I could attach to LTO4 unit to a SAS card that could recognize the streamer. I don't know if this last card is the right one.
In the current set-up the Dell 6 Gbps SAS Controller is built into an Dell T620 as the dedicated controller for the LTO4 unit.
The tape unit is added and installed to an SBS 2011 virtual machine running under Vmware ESXi 5.1. In the SBS 2011 server the hardware is recognized and installed as a IBM tape unit.
So far so good, but when i put a tape into the unit after about 5 minutes the LTO is blinking error 6 with an exclamation sign.
Does anyone know what is cause of this problem? Could it be the controller of is the Virtual environment not supported?
Kind Regards,
Allert Lageweg
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MD3000i Backup
How can I backup the config on a MD3000i storage box? Can I export the virtual disks without causing any problems?
Thanks
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Dell PV TL4000 iSCSI
Hello everyone,
We are getting an error on the LED front panel FB 00.
I was able to power cycle the unit, and re-seat all the drive sleds in the device, but the error returns. Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Jerry
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MD 3000i
Hello,
Can someone explain me why the configuration of MD3000 show below that "grappe raid 1" (wich is made from 15000tr SAS disk) is protected by 2 disk (11 et 3) because the disk "11" is a 7200 tr/mn that shoud ONLY protect the "grappe raid 2" (wich is made from 7200 SAS disk), Disk "3" is a 15000 tr/mn...
regards,
COUVERTURE DU DISQUE DE RECHANGE :
Les groupes de disques virtuels suivants ne sont pas protégés : Aucun - Tous les groupes de disques virtuels sont protégés
Nombre total de disques physiques de rechange : 2
De secours : 2
Utilisé : 0
Disque physique de secours dans le boîtier 0, logement 11 (SAS, 465,762 Go)
Protège les groupes de disques virtuels suivants : GRAPPE_RAID_N°1, GRAPPE_RAID_N°2, GRAPPE_RAID_N°3
Disque physique de secours dans le boîtier 0, logement 3 (SAS, 279,397 Go)
Protège les groupes de disques virtuels suivants : GRAPPE_RAID_N°1
Is someone can explain me why
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Connect a powervault MD1000 to poweredge R720?
Hi,
I need to connect a nearly new MD1000 powervault (purchased on delloutlet earlier this year) to a new poweredge R720 . I know this is not offically supported. Would folks suggest going with a H810 raid controller or using the Perc 6/e card?
Has anyone tried this?
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Restoring failed virtual disk on MD3000i
Hello, everybody.
We have MD3000i with RAID10 and 3 failed hard disks. It was working perfectly for 3 years, and we didn't remember about it until this happened :-( Here are the questions:
1. recovery guru says that it maybe still possible to recovery the data and suggests to contact technical support. But the warranty has already expired, and I'm not sure, whether any support could be provided by phone. Did anybody have such experience?
2. what is the procedure for the recovery, can I do it myself?
Thank you in advance.
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Replacing failed drives in MD3000i
Have 8 drives[1] configured as RAID5 + 1 HotSpare. 2 Drives have died. Trying to replace them.
[1] Physical Disk path redundancy: OK
Physical Disk type: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Speed: 7,200 RPM
Current data rate: 3 Gbps
Product ID: ST31000640SS
Firmware version: MS04
Serial number: 9QJ2SDBK
Vendor: SEAGATE
Date of manufacture: 16 December 2008
It seems Seagate do not make Barracuda's anymore so I bought the equivalent Constellation drives [2]:
[2] ST1000NM0023 Seagate HDD 3.5 SAS 1TB
When I install a new drive into the MD3000i the 6 original disks all stop and the SAN comes to a grinding halt. When I remove the new drive, they all come good again and the SAN plods along in degraded mode.
Why would inserting a new drive cause the MD3000i to stop working? If it is a compatibility issue, what are the correct replacement drives?
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MD3000i Virtual Disk Not On Preferred Path
Hi guys, experiencing the titled issue, attempting to redistribute virtual disks had previously remedied the problem but that is no longer the case. I'm unsure if the issue is with the MD3000i or with vmware. I currently have five esx/i hosts connected to the SAN, all running esx/i 4.0 - 4.1. The MD3000i has this firmware version: 07.35.31.60.
The above error has two separate instances in recovery guru, one affecting one disk group and the other affecting three disk groups.
What further information can I provide to troubleshoot this issue?
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