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Question about PowerVault NX3500 - File System Format
Dear all,I inserted new Hard Disks in My Storage MD3200i, and I would like to use this Hard Disks.Is my first time that I increase disk capacity in MD3200i Storage.In the File System Format screen,...
View ArticlePowervault Modular Disk Storage Manager
Hello.My issue is:We created a storage drive with the Powervault Modular disk labeled O and we wished to share it between two servers. However, this is not happening. We are not seeing what we stored...
View Article124T connecting to a 910 server running Debain Linux
HelloWe have a Dell 910 running debain OS, I am connecting a PowerVault 124T tape back up over an SAS cable. How can I get the server to see the 124T.we are hosting or DNS/Cirtix on this server and...
View ArticleCan't create a RAID5 array with Advanced Wizard
I have a MD1000 attached to a Poweredge 2900 (Windows 2003 Std R2 SP2) via a PERC 6/e. I am trying to create a RAID5 array of 8 physical drives usng the OpenManage Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard. I am...
View ArticleOne Large Raid vs Multiple Raids
Hello Everyone,We have a MD3600F, it has a 12 600SAS drives, and I was hoping you can help me decide how to handle the Raid and Lun creation.this san will store everything we have:- VMware VM's- SQL...
View Articlecould not communicate with the storage array to complete this request
I am getting this error when trying to synchronize controller clocks or crating a cirtual disks on the md3200i. anyidea?
View ArticleJumbo frames on MD3200i
Hi, I am trying to configure Jumbo frames on my MD3200i. I have increased the jumbo frames to 9000 in the storage management interface for all NICs and have set my switch to use Jumbo frames but when I...
View ArticleDell Disk Back Solution Required
Hi friends.We have a client having 4 X Dell R720 PowerEdge Server's. ( RedHat Linux Based). Now they require a Disk Storage devices for fast access and high data transfer rates required for real...
View ArticleCan't connect to web client
Greetings,I've lost the ability to connect to the web interface on a Powervault TL 4000. The settings on the front panel are correct and I'm accessing it in browsers with the correct IP address. I've...
View ArticleeSATA card for the NX400
I would like to install a PCIe eSATA controller card in my new NX400 PowerVault. Can someone suggest a card that will get along with the NX400? It doesn't like the one I tried even though the specs...
View Articleerror creating second host
I am getting an erroro n the md storage manager when creating my second esx hosts and mapping the iscsi software identifier to itthe error is OPERATING ENVIRONMENT DATAClient system name: DCFMClient...
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 ArticleMixing hdd's in MD3220i
Hello,We have a MD3220i SAN with 12 600GB 10K RPM drives. 1 is hot fail and the rest 11 are setup in 2 gorups of RAID 5.Am planning to another 12 to increase the size. options are 600GB or 900GB.- Will...
View Articleoperating system type
When i go to drfine a host and select operating system type. I am given the choicesLinuxVMwTPGSALUAWindowsWhy is vmware shows and VMwTPGSLUA?
View Article2 vmknics for iscsi but one shows standby md3200i
I have 2 vmknics binded to 2 vmnics connected to the md 3200i. I can vmkping both interfaces on the md3200i but one vmknic shows standby and one shows active.any idea why both cannot be active? the mry...
View ArticleQuery on LUN Mapping
Hi forum,We have MD3200 i array (iSCSI). We have a LUN of 1 TB mapped to a Host group that contains 2 servers (Linux).Now we want to map this LUN to another Windows server.(but don't want to remove the...
View ArticleReset MD3600i Storage Array
Hi All,I have recently purchased a second hand MD3600i Storage Array, and I am trying to reset the array configuration with no success.I have tried to connect via the serial interface but I am unable...
View ArticleEmail alerts does not work but test yes - MD3200
Hello!We have recently aquired a SAS MD3200 and we are very happy about it.But... yesterday we had a disk failure and no email alert,Description of what we have:- Storage Manager up and running on a...
View ArticleRD1000 Data Cartridge stating bad blocks
We are using Symantec BE 2012 with an RD1000 unit and have received a message through the Symantec interface that the data cartridge has bad blocks.....is there a way to test the cartridge? Thank you
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