Redundant channel is Physical Disk path redundancy: Lost
Hi guysI have a MD3000i and replaced the old SATA drive when it is broken, to the new SATA diskAfter that the new drive is recognized but I get the following error: Physical Disk - Loss of Path...
View ArticleMD3000i - Problems with Thermal Sensor & Host Board
We recently shipped our MD3000i from one office to another, and after hooking it up at the new office, there is a problem with the system.When connecting with MD Storage Manager, you get an alert...
View ArticleMD3620i in Nagios
Hello,is it possible to monitor the MD3620i in Nagios?I tried a how to for using smcli but it didn't worked for me.
View ArticleHow to backup data via Windows Server Backup on Storage server 2008R2 to...
I have a Dell Server with Windows Storage Server 2008R2 on it. A autoloader PowerValue124T is connecting the server. When I use Windows Server Backup Utility to run a backup job, the tape device isn't...
View ArticlePowervault MD3620i Modular Disk Storage Manager Will not Install
I currently have the Modular Disk storage manager software for our MD36201 installed on a management server. I am trying to install it on another server or PC just in case the management server is...
View ArticlePowerVault TL4000 drives dropping from Windows -- Dell not helping
Hi All,I have a PowerVault TL4000 library unit running Windows 2003 x64. Back in August I started getting random drops from our second drive while Netbackup was running. In device manager the second...
View ArticleDell UPS Local Node Manager constantly fails and restores communication
HiI have the latest version installed (1.08.0015) on a Powervault NX3200. The ULNM reports failed communication at random intervals of 5min to 20min, and restores on its own around 1min later. I have...
View ArticleMD 3000i and HUS156060VLS600
When installed in a basket DELL MD 3000i HDD HUS156060VLS600 it hangs (the basket stops responding and lose control), according to the document powervault-md3000i_Reference Guide_en-us.pdf this model...
View ArticleMD1000 lost virtual disk, says physical disks are foreign
Hi,we've an MD1000 connected to a PE1950, both running happily since late 2006.The MD1000 has 8x500GB SATA disks as a 7-disk RAID5 and 1 hot spare, in "unified" setting.Yesterday the PE1950 and the...
View ArticleAdd drives
Hi,We have an MD3000i that currently is configured with 6X 146 gb drives, now we want to add 6 more drives to this device, these new drives are 1 Tb drives.question, Can we add these new 1 TB drives...
View ArticleDell PowerVault MD3600f - Unable to upgrade firmware - Data validation error
Upgrade Controller Firmware wizard reports the following error. 1 problem detected. Data validation error: The storage array cannot be upgraded as host port type representation in Controller A did not...
View ArticleML6000 Firmware upgrade
Is it possible to upgrade the library firmware for the ML6000 using the ITDT tool? I can't upgrade using the built-in web console and I've seen some references to using ITDT but can't find the...
View ArticleInstalling and using POWERVAULT 114X on Windows
Hello allWe have recently spent a few thousand pound purchasing a POWERVAULT 114X with one LTO-6 drive in it. I have a Dell server running VMWare ESXi. I have configured VMWare (Pass through) and the...
View ArticleDisk bypassed in md3200i
We have a md3200i with 5 4TB disk.Originally it come with 4 disks when we installed de 5th disk in the first available slot we received this message.Event Message: Physical disk by-passedWe try...
View ArticleSAS Disk with different speed 15000 and 7200 - raid group - hot spare
Hello,Can someone explain me, why MD3000 configuration show that " raid group 1" (wich is made from 15000tr/mn SAS disk) is protected by 2 disk (11 et 3) because the disk "11" is a 7200 tr/mn AND that...
View ArticlePath bouncing md3220 SAS with vmware
I have 2 vmware clusters and with one off them I'm receiving warnings alerts when IO is stressed.This is the warning messageNode ID: md3220-cgn-bctHost IP Address: Host ID: Out-of-BandEvent Error Code:...
View ArticleMD1000 drive rebuild won't start
Hi,I have an MD3000i with two MD1000 configured in one array (RAID5). Last week we had a single drive failure in one MD1000, hot spare kicked in. I got a replacement drive, took the failed drive out...
View ArticleManufacturing Barcode Labels
Now I know im not the only one who has had problems making and printing barcode labels. I started trying to do them first about 6 months ago, but keep enoutering problems with different things (printer...
View ArticleR320 / 6gb SAS HBA / TL2000 tape library issue
New R320 running W2k8 R2 - fully updated and patchedAll firmware updated to latest (BIOS, iDRAC, SAS6 card, LifeCycle, etc.)Basically, the issue is the server can't see the tape library. System hangs...
View Articlequestion about creating virtual disks on my MD3220i
I am creating a virtual disk where I'll be putting an SQL server and it's asking me topick Virtual Disk I/O characteristics type. The options are File system (typical), Database, Multimedia and...
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