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how to determine if MD3200i is overloaded based on IOPS ?
Hello everyone,I need your help and advise, I did some searches but didn't find an answer..I have MD3200i with 12 15k SAS drives (600 GB) configured as RAID 10.I am running out of space and I want to...
View ArticleDisk expansion of MD3200i
Howdy to everyone. Since this is my first post asking for assistance please do not mock me too much. First, a little about our configuration. We currently have three Dell R710 Host machines...
View ArticleiSCSI port fatal errors on the working controller
Hello,I have an MD3000i that I have replaced in production with two Equallogic units. Now I'm trying to reuse the MD3000i as a backup target device. Although it was working properly with two...
View ArticleDell PowerVault TL2000 and ULT3580-HH5 (IBM)
Hi All, Did someone update the firmware of TL2000 (Library and TapeDrive) ? The tapedrive I have is ULT3580-HH5 (IBM), which makes me wonder if I update the firmware to C.30 (which is the latest for...
View ArticleMD3220i Jumbo Frames not working on all data ports
I am building a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Fail Over Cluster based on the following components:3 x Dell PowerEdge R610 (big cpu / lots of ram / 4 onboard nics / additional quad nic)2 x Cisco 3750...
View ArticleExpansion of MD3600i (adding disk shelf)
I've currently got a couple of MD3600i's at sites; In the same sites I've a couple of Poweredge servers with MD1200 DAS SAS shelves.I'm looking at removing the shelves from the Servers, and adding them...
View ArticleNX3200 motherboard guide and driver update package
Hi,I have a NX3200 where I need to add memory and disk drives plus update drivers. Questions:1. Where can I download a guide for the nx3200 motherboard?2. Where can I download a complete driver package...
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Assign free capacity to an virtual disk
I add a physical disk, add the free capacity, but i don't have any option to assign that free capacity to the virtual disk i already have configure
View ArticleMD3200 raid controllers offline
So I have just started working for this company and have inherited a dell md3200 that appears to have both raid controller modules offline according to PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager. Randomly...
View ArticleMD3000 Raid Controller Module Memory Parity Error
MD3000 has two controllers. One of the controller failed. SO I replaced it with an used, but working controller. All errors are gone, except one "RAID Controller Module Memory Consistency...
View ArticleMigrating MD1200 from a Dell 2950 to a New Server R720
Hi All , We want to migrate one of our Windows servers to a new hardware from Dell 2950 to Dell R720The Old Server is connected with a Dell MD 1200 . How should we go about connecting the MD 1200 with...
View ArticleTape drive door will not shut
Hello, I hope this is the correct forum. I have a Dell PowerEdge T610 server with an internal IBM ULTRIUM-HH3 SCSI tape drive. After ejecting the tape the door will not close and the top LED light is...
View ArticleConnecting new MD1200 to an existing MD3420 ... Really only Offline ?
Hi,we have a new MD1200 with 12 new 2TB HDDs.Do we really have to power down our working MD3420 to connect the additional Shelf ?Or can we connect it online, as it is new and unconfigured ?RegardsSven
View ArticleMD1000: Switching drives
I currently have a PowerVault MD 1000 with several virtual disks. One disk was slots 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 in a RAID 5 configuration. 9 was assigned as a hot spare. Disk 3 failed and 9 took over but after...
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MD3000i - Individual Physical Disk - Degraded Path Error
We replaced a failed disk and after the successful rebuild we began to receive the "Individual Physical Disk - Degraded Path" error in Recovery Guru. All of our disks are online and our status is...
View ArticleReplacing hard drive on MD1200
Hi, we have a predictive failure on one of the drives on a MD1200 and I have a replacement drive from Dell. I am able to see the failure predicted in the Dell OMSA on the server. Are the drives hot...
View ArticleProcedures to upgrade MD3000i Harddrives
I inherited an MD3000i with 146GBdrives. I have the correct 'Dell-Certified' replacement drives and have downloaded the latest disk firmware upgrade. What are the exact steps to upgrade? I slapped...
View ArticlePV220S upgrade connected servers
I currently have 2 Dell PE2850's running W2K3 Ent, one of which is attached to the PV220S. I am upgrading the 2850's to W2K8R2 and need to understand what the PV220S is capable of.Firstly, can I...
View ArticleVirtual device failed MD 1000
HiWe have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server running over 2 powerVault 1000MD storage, we discovered a beep alarm coming from the server and could identify one of the physical disks as defective. We tried to...
View ArticleMD 3000 Virtual Disk Failed
Hello,we have MD3000 attached to a dell poweredge server which host our mail archival solution. looks like the drives are failed on the drive and virtual drive is in failed state. Recovery guru...
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