PowerVault 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 Articleextended partition
Hi,I just installed additional 2x2TB hard drives to my Power vault NX3100 server but when I tried to extend the new free spaces. It shows this error message " there is not enough space available on the...
View ArticleConnecting MD1000 to a Win 2008 VM on ESXi 5
Hi Folks, I have MD1000 connected to Dell 2950 which has ESXi 5.x installed. The ESXi has 2 windows 2008 R2 VMs. Is there any way to connect this MD1000 to any of the VMs?
View ArticleDell MD3230 SAS with 4 x direct attach SAS to Host R720 Throughput Issue
I have the following configuration:Dell PowerEdge R720 with 2 x Dual Port SAS HBADell PowerVault MD3220 with 24 x 900GB SAS disksOS = Windows 2012 Server Enterprise with 256GB RAM. (No Hyper-V)I have...
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Problem with MD3000i
Hello to everyoneI have a strange problem with a MD3000 storage.I noticed that there was an error on battery of controller 0. (i have 2 controller)..I put offline that controlled, replace the battery...
View ArticleJust updated firmware on TL2000 tape library and now....
The library was on v7.4. Updated to the latest, which I believe was C.00Now I get a message on the OCP saying "Incompatible Magazine. Please change the left magazine". Then it asks you to pull the...
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 ArticleWindows Server 2012 Cluster using Dell MD3000 as SAS JBOD
Hi thereI'm looking to build a Windows Server 2012 server cluster starting with 2x existing Dell PowerEdge 1950 systems.Microsoft's view is that SAS and one or more shared SAS JBOD enclosures should be...
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Disk issue
Hi,We did just bought 6 new (dell supported drives) drives for our MD300i, and add them to the device, Last week we did create 2 new groups from these 6 new discs, and untill yesterday everything...
View Articlevirtual 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?
View ArticleML6000 Module Terminator Question
Hi,I have the following question about module terminators:For a ML6000 unit, only 5U module without aditional modules, is neccesary to use one or two module terminators?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleMD3200i can't see SAS 6G drives
I have an MD3200i with dual iSCCI controllers, but when i go to MD Storage Manager i don't see the 4TB 6G drives. It works fine with the 3G drive and from what i read i need to update the firmware. I...
View ArticleRecovery Guru
How can we download this recovery guru software and what is it meant for?
View ArticleMD3000 Gone Dumb
Was alerted the other morning that a MD3000 we have in production was down. Upon investigating I found that the controllers were in a state on constant reboot. I assume this because I could ping the...
View ArticleSetup redundant iSCSI network with 2 network switches
Hi guys,I'm rethinking the topology of our SAN. We have:- 1 Dell PowerVault MD3000i SAN.- 2 Cisco switches (supported by Dell).- 2 Dell PowerEdge 710 servers.I'm looking to connect the MD3000i with the...
View ArticleResetting the Primary eth / bond on DR4100
I ran the Setup Wizard on a DR4100 with only eth2 and eth3 connected. This created bond0 with these two interfaces, which are the 10GbE ports.I want to add eth0 and 1 to bond0 and remove eth2 and 3,...
View ArticleTiering on PV MD3660f
Hello, I'd like to implement Auto Tier functionality on my MD3660f.Can I use traditional RAID group or Dynamic Disk Pool must be used?I couldn’t find any document that describe the Tier configuration...
View ArticleDell perc h800
I have a dell precision t7600 running on win server 2008 r2 and perc h800 is connected In order to control power vault md1200 but the problem is I cant find the correct driver for perc h800 nothing...
View ArticlePV124T and Windows 2012
Is it possible to get an LTO5 PV124T working under Windows 2012?
View ArticleAccidental firmware upload to MD3620F
Hi, i just realized i accidentally initiated a firmware upgrade on an MD3620F with 2 controllers. I started to load MD3200/MD3220 firmware to it, only to realize about 15 minutes later that there's a...
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