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Changing Ethernet settings MD3000i (for out-of-band management)
We're connecting to a MD3000i, with dual RAID controllers, only through a single in-band connection.An iSCSI connection from 1 controller to the host server was the only cable attached to MD3000i and...
View ArticleDELL PV210S Array
A customer of mine has a DELL PV210s which was shwoing 2 disk drives (Bay5 & Bay8) as failed with intermittant flashing amber lights.. I therefore ordered replacement drives and changed the disk in...
View Articlechange configuration
Hi,We have an MD3000i that is almost for 3 years working, the device at its current configuration connected to one server (with UTP cable ISCSI), we did add 6 more drive (differnt size dan the oraginal...
View ArticleNX3610 SANDiscovery IP
i have NX3610 connecting to MD3660i, do i need to register all MD IP on NX cluster and what is the correct commandcurrent statusCLI/System/Maintenance/Luns/configuration > iscsi-viewController Name...
View ArticleIncompatible Disk in MD3000
Hi,We've just bought 4 replacement 1TB SATA drives for our MD3000 and while they all appear to be identical, with both the Dell labels on the disks and the Storage Array Profile - Physical Disks info,...
View ArticleAdd new drive to MD3000i
Hi,We have dell MD30001 with 6 drives, We add 6 more drive with differnt size (supported by dell), I did already open a post for allowing a second server to access these new drives and we working with...
View ArticleGuide to updating firmware on Dell PowerVault MD1000
Hi, I am looking for a guide on how to update the EMM Firmware version on a Dell PowerVault MD1000. It looks like the current version is A00 and has not been previously been updated. RegardsJay
View ArticleMD 3000i interactive mode using out band management
Hello,I want to use interactive mode as below but I didn't find the way to enter passwordRegards SMcli.exeipaddressEntering interactive mode.set physicalDisk [0,5] operationalState=failed;
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 and ODX Support
Hi Dell,We need Windows Server 2012 R2 Drivers and ODX support for our Powervault MD3220 storage.RegardsDavid
View ArticleMDSM Can't Find MD3000 on the Network
Hey there,I have been trying for the past couple days to get a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise machine (PE2950) to find a MD3000 (automatically) on the network with no luck. I am just wondering if...
View ArticleISCSI port question
Hi,If the second ISCSI port of a dell MD3000i conneccted to a switch and has IP in the same IP reng (10.0.10.0) of other servers that are connected to the same switch, would the disks in the device be...
View ArticlePowerVault PV775N PV220S failed drive
Host server windows server 2003 appliance edition – PV775N, Drive Chassis – PV220S has slot2 (1:2) that is reporting the 2 new drives as failed. Originally there were 2 drives in prefail on the PV220S...
View ArticleNew Disk shows as Foreign on MD1000
We have a MD1000 with Perc6/e and 2 virtual disks consisting of RAID 5 750GB SATA disks. One of the hard drives has failed and I purchased a new one to replace it. I think the one I purchased (from a...
View ArticlePowerVault NX3200 and clustering
Hello everyone, I'm rather new to Storage Server 2012 which is what both of my NX3200s came with. I'm trying to set up a cluster so that I can have iSCSI replication between both servers. However,...
View ArticleMD1000 Array disk warning. Command timeout on physical disk
Hi All,I am getting numerous "Array disk warning. Command timeout on physical disk" alerts on a disk in our MD1000, although the disk reports failure predicted as NO...Full Error:Date:11/27/2013,...
View ArticleMD3200 with Server 2012
Folks, have anybody tested connecting MD3200 with Windows Server 2012? I have checked the supported platform matrix on dell website...
View Articleout of band management connection: none
Hi, We want to add 6 new 600 GB drives (ST3450857SS) to our MD3000i that has already 6 146 Gb drvies(ST3146855SS). we had to change the out-band ethernet IP address, we did so for both NICs and thyen...
View ArticleMD1200 initialization failure
Hi all,I tried connecting my new MD1200 with poweredge R720 server, after installing the Open Manage software i couldnt see the MD1200 drives from the Server.I haveconnected the SAS cable to the server...
View ArticleRecovery guru shows failed virtual disk, but it's not failed actually
Hello.Recently my virtual disk on MD1000 attached to MD3000i failed, so I had to replace 3 physical drives and recreate the virtual disk. Now recovery guru shows "Failed Virtual Disk - Physical Disk...
View ArticleMD1000 Predictive failure on replaced drives
Oct 20 19:19:26usmia-nas01kernel: mfi1: 63515 (435611216s/0x0004/WARN) - Enclosure PD 00(c 0/p0) temperature sensor 3 differential detectedOct 29 04:41:55usmia-nas01kernel: mfi1: 63652...
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