MD3000i Controller Not Communicating
Hi,The battery on one controller of our MD3000i showed up as failed recently, so I got a new one from Dell and last night, our data centre engineer installed it. The SAN has twin controllers and all...
View ArticleML6000 not detected in Windows Server 2012
Hi,Our ML6000 is not being detected by a new Windows Server 2012 host. It is not found in device manager. However, the 3 SAS LTO 5 drives in it are detected properly.It used to be connected solely to a...
View Articlehow to get upgrade to storage server os
I have a PowerVault NX3000 and looking to get the new version of storage server OS for it? How and where would i need to go to get it. I can find just server upgrade, but not storage server and i...
View ArticleMD3620F, MD3820F and TRIM/UNMAP support for SSD
Hi,Please advice if MD3620F or MD3820F support TRIM/UNMAP functionality for SSD drives, as this not covered in manuals. Thanks,Aytugan.
View ArticleCentOS 6.5 + md3200i
Hello,I try to setup iSCSI connection from md3200i to virtual CentOS 6.5 guest, hosted on XenServer. When I discover portal, I get a lot of errors in console like:end_request: I/O error, dev sdg,...
View ArticleFailed EMM firmware update on MD1200
Hi, i'm getting the following error shortly after attempting to update the EMM firmware on an MD1200 from 1.01 to 1.05: Error 97 - A firmware download to an EMM failed. If your storage array is not...
View ArticleEquallogic PS5000E
Hello,I was wondering if the power supplies are hot swappable for the Equallogic PS5000E?Thank you,Scott
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Bug in performance statistics?
Hi, I have a MD3220 and wanted to know at what capacity (in iops, not space) is running.For that, I collected the stats using the graphic view in mdsn, discriminated by virtual disc and also...
View Articlemd3000
I have r610 with sas 5e connecting to a md3000. I cannot get controller to see the drives, I am sure I am missing something simple, can anybody help. I am already using the interposer card on the sata...
View Articleupgrade MD3220i
We recently purchased an MD3220i SAN for use with our ERP system however we've found we're not getting the performance we need (Using SQLIO random write test we're getting about 2100 IOPS and 130mb/s....
View ArticlePowerVault TL 2000 is giving tape alert Error
We are getting an email error from our PowerVault TL2000:Attention : Drive Warn or Crit Tape Alert flag Event Code: 0x84 - tape alert Element number:...
View ArticleMigrating from NX based Dell FFS to FS based Dell FFS
I've got 15 to 20 cifs and nfs exports on an nx based dell ffs 2.0 with md storage behind it. I need to move these over to an equallogic ps 6210 and fs 7610 based system. Unfortunately replication...
View ArticleChange Raid level from 10 to 6, and back again
On a Powervault MD3200i I need to temporary change one of the disk pool raid from 10 to 6, then in a few weeks after I have added some disks put it back to raid 10.a few questions:- I assume this is...
View ArticleMD3420 Fibre-channel Connection to two R720 Servers (2008 R2)
Hello,I was looking for some suggestions trying to my two servers to both see a MD3420 Array as shared storage. The overview idea is here: http://i.imgur.com/UeWyLvg.jpgInitial setup was very easy....
View ArticlePERC4e/DC performance issue on RHEL 5.x
We have two PE R900, equipped with PERC 4e/DC (SCSI U320) and PERC 6/i (SAS). The SAS PERC 6/i works nicely, while the SCSI array PERC 4e/DC works poorly.The PERC 4e/DC is connected to a PowerValut...
View ArticleMD 3220 as Storage
hi everyone! Is MD 3220 & MD 1220 can be used only as an expansion of NX3200? or can be connected also directly to server? SAS port is the only way to connect it or USB port is okay also?
View Articledealing with bad blocks using the Dell H700
I'm a Sysop trying to understand what's going on inside the datacenter. Our hosting manager tells me that the dell OSMA is reporting bad "virtual blocks" on some of our disks. From what I'm told, we...
View ArticleMD3000 Email Alerts Failure
I am attempting to relay alerts to a gmail account through a smtp server. When I test it, I get the following error. I was able to send a test email from the smtp server so that doesn't appear to be...
View ArticleIndividual Physical Disk - Degraded Path MD3000
Hi.Is anyone able to have a look at the reports and advise please?It refers to 0/8 that has a status of "replaced"also I have had to force a few disks back on line "smcli -n "sas1" -c "revive...
View ArticleLTO6 on Windows server 2003 x64
I have a PowerVault NX1950 with Windows Storage Server 2003 x64.Can I use a TL2000 with a LTO6 tape drive on this Server? Are there drivers for that Windows OS version?
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