MD3000 Physical Disk reported as unknown, bypassed, hot spare in use
I have a MD3000 with two MD1000 slave enclosures. Physical Disk 2, 0 has been listed as unknown but service is not allowed. I tried marking the disk as failed but because the state is unknown it...
View Articledell poweredge 6850 with powervault 220s and md1000 on perc 4/dc
Server crashed over weekend. Tried to reboot and it said the perc 4/dc standard controller w/128M memory battery was missing, so I rebooted again.Found the battery the second time. PERC 4/dc is in slot...
View ArticleSeeking assistance in inspection
HiWe had a power edge 2900 server running over two MD1000 enclosures linked to PERC 5/E controller.each array is linked to a separate connector on the controller.each array has 15 disks, every 7 disks...
View Article124T - how to clear tape drive/autoloader log file
124T with LTO4-120-1 drive connected to a CentOs 6.3 systems with bacula backup software. I am trying to the clear the tape drive/autoloader log file. Past tapealert errors show up in the automatic...
View ArticlePowervault NX3200 power cords?
Our Powervault NX3200 only came with 1 power cord. Should we purchase the 2nd and have it plugged in as well? Unit sometimes makes whirring noise like the power is fluctuating.Thank you,Mark
View ArticlePowerVault 745N NAS array failure
Walked in today and my 745N had an audible alarm. I connected to the box and checked array manager and it showed drive 1 had failed so I replaced that drive and slid it back into the case. Beep went...
View ArticleMonitoring of MD3420
Good day, colleagues!Our company have bought Dell MD3420 and now i'm interested in monitoring capabilities of this product.It's require to monitor HDDs, Logical Volumes, Controller status. Any...
View ArticleDr4100, TL2000 and Backup Exec
I'm trying to find info on the reduplication that happens when deduplicated data is transferred off of the DR4100.We have a TL2000 tape library that we have been using for years, and we have been...
View ArticleMD1000 failed disk
I have an MD1000 that had a disk fail, and the hot-spare has a failure predicted. My RAID5 is off-line at the moment.Is it possible to force the failure predicted drive to go online until I can replace...
View ArticleEmm removed causing virtual disk failure
HiWe have a power edge 2900 server running over two MD1000 enclosures linked to PERC 5/E controller.each array is linked to a separate connector on the controller.each array has 15 disks, every 7 disks...
View Articlechangelogs for PV MD3XXX firmware
I'm trying to find a list of all changes made in the controller firmware updates for MD3XXX systems over the past few years, but am having no luck on Dell's website. Do these logs exist in the public...
View ArticlePowervault purchase
Hi,I am trying to purchase a second hand powervault for our business thus we can use it for restoring data .currently if we do this with the live system , then we can't do the daily back up as what we...
View ArticleTape drive
Hi all, is the tape drive or drive unit for tl2000 or 124 the unit which reads the tape etc and it is a pluggable module ?is so , if we have a tl2000 which can only do one job at the time, I am...
View ArticleMD32xx / MD36xx global hot spare
Hi. Can a Global Hot Spare be used to protect a RAID 10,5 or 6 disk group on a MD32xx / 36xx arrays? For example if I have 2x RAID 5 & 1x RAID 10 groups, can I have 1 hot spare my 3x RAID groups?...
View ArticleLTO Tape 6 is not showing in Device Manager
Hi,Recently i buy a DELL LTO 6 Tape Drive with HBA SAS 6 Gbps, i have connected and installed the driver of HBA, But tape drive is still not visible to me,I have installed the latest driver and...
View ArticlePE2900 MD1000 Importing foreign configuration does not solve failed Virtual...
HiWe have a power edge 2900 server with PERC 5/E RAID Controller connected to two disk arrays (MD1000 enclosure) each array has 15 disks and two virtual disks (I assume each vd is 7 disks and 1 hot...
View ArticleR610 NIC Cards Dropping and Reconnecting
I have a R610 That is connected to a MDI3000 Storage Array Unfortinatly they are connected by using the NIC Cards on the R610 and not an ISCI cable. The issue I am having is every time the Server and...
View ArticleDell MD3000 2 Disk failure/replaced with new drives
Really stuck on this one. 8 Disk slots 0123 and 78910, Raid 5/two groups. 2 drives failed. When I received two replacement drives they had been previously set up in another array so when I inserted...
View ArticleChecking Dell LTO-6 tape drive installation on windows server 2012 R2
Hi,we have a R520 server with windows server 2012 R2. I have connected Dell LTO-6 tape drive to 6Gbps SAS HBA port (Model UCS-70). How to check if the drives are installed on the system or do i need to...
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