Reuse of components from an nx1950 storage server
Please forgive my ignorance of this material, having to learn as i go.we have been using a cluster that consisted of two nx1950 servers that were connected to an MD3000 and an MD1000 storage array...
View ArticleMD3620f disk compatibility
Quick question regarding disk mix and match within an MD3620f enclosure: Can you or can you not mix SATA SSDs with SAS HDDs? We have 4-400GB SATA SSDs in the first 4 slots of the unit, followed by...
View ArticlePowerVault MD3260 - persistent monitor cannot reach storage array
I have two PowerVault MD3260's. A few days ago, I received a series of alert messages from one of them about the persistent monitor being unable to reach the indicated storage array, followed by...
View ArticleDell Power Vault TL2000 ISCSI BRIDGE (tl24iscsixsas 1gb iscsi)
Hello,Iam having trouble with my tape library iscsi bridge, my scerario are:1- Someone configured an ip on it before then it was not being used for long and the configuration was not documented.2-I did...
View ArticleServer 2012 doesn't recognize Dell Powervault LTO4-eh1
I'm trying to get this Dell Powervault LTO4 tape drive to work with backup exec 2014. The server is a Dell PE T610 with Server 2012 standard. The card is Dell PERC 6/E adapter which shows up in 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 ArticleMD3620I, 2012 R2 officially supported?
Hi,Anyone know if Windows 2012 R2 cvs/iscsi/hyper-v is supported officially by Dell with MD3620I?Latest firmware mentions only Windows 2012 and there is no 2012 R2 in the download section on the...
View ArticlePowerVault TL4000 - NDMP - OnTap 8.2.1 - Backup Exec 2014 - Backup failing
We have a PowerVault TL4000 with 2 drives. Our backup software is Backup Exec 2014 and we have an IBM SAN N6210. We upgraded the SAN this summer to OnTap 8.2.1 and since then we have issues when...
View ArticlePerc5 & MD1000 lost RAID config
We have a PE2950 with a Perc 5 controller connected to two MD1000 units, each containing 12 500Gb SATA disks. Last week, we had a power "blip". This caused one of the disks to die; it has been...
View ArticleRemove Drives from MD3000i
We have a MD3000i with a 1000 enclosure in a SAN for 3 ESXi server cluster. We populated the last 6 slots with drives from an authorized Dell reseller and 2 drives show up as bypassed and the other 4...
View ArticleMD3600i failing drive - CSV "melted"
12 x 2 Tb drives in MD3600i configured as single DDP (2 drives protection)1 drive started failing (did NOT fail, just started failing)It was not noticed & eventually the Cluster Shared Volume (on...
View Articletransfer a lot of data off md3000
hi there,We have an md3000i at a temporary office that is now closing down. There is 40TB of data on it which needs to be transferred to 4 other offices (i..e. 160TB in total). We have a Dell r320...
View ArticleRemotely power off MD3220?
Is it possible to remotely power off an MD3220? I do not see the option in 'Disk Storage Manager'. Do I really need to actually go into the office and hit the switch prior to the electric outage of...
View ArticleRecommended backup software for PowerVault RD1000
We recently purchased two PowerVault RD1000 (in the rack mount) to backup our PowerEdge R310 running Windows SBS 2011 locally. The hardware is very good: the RD1000 is easy to install, the cartages are...
View ArticleBSOD caused by EqlASMAgent.exe
One of our M620 blades running Windows 2012 R2 blue screened on us and rebooted. I have captured the highlights below which looks like Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools was the cause.We are...
View ArticleIs it okay to install backup exec on NX3200
Hello,I do have a backup server running backup exec and using ISCSI NAS NX3200 for storage,NX3200 is actually a DELL PE R720 Server with win 2008R2 storage edition.Can I simply add NX3200 to my domain,...
View ArticleDrive compatibility between powervault models?
I have a powervault 114T with a LTO3 drive and want to get a library device (preferably an LTO3 or better model). What I'm curious about is can I use the lto drive from my 114t and put it in a 132t?...
View ArticleHow to properly connect and configure an MD3200 with a pair of R710s for best...
I have an MD3200 and two R710s which are used as a Hyper-V failover cluster. They work, but I'm hitting some kind of bottleneck when performing backups (using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11). Reading...
View ArticleNeed help with failed hdd's on MD3000
Hi community,we we got a big problem with our dell md3000 storage. Last night 2 of our 7 physical discs crashed and as it's configured as Raid5 I'm afraid to have all data lost. We got a partial backup...
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