300GB vs 900GB 10k 2.5 hard drives
We started off using 300GB 10k 2.5 hard drives. Looking back now we wish we would have started bigger with 600 or even 900GB drives. Is there a performance difference between a 300GB 10K drive and a...
View ArticleChanging RAID levels in MD3220i
Hello,I have a MD3220i with 12 x 600G disks setup as 2 groups Both RAID 5 (group 1 = 5 disks, group 2 = 6 disks and 1 hot spare) I want to change the 6 disk group from RAID 5 to RAID 10. I understand...
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Vasa Provider ESXi 5.1 U1
Hi Guys,I'mtrying to addto myvSphere5.1Update 1, with 1MD3000and 1 MD3220i the DELL VASA PROVIDER Software.I installedthe package andaddthe correctlinkto the StorageProvidersofvSpherebutwhen I try...
View ArticleMD3660i disk pools and ESXi 5.1 and MPIO
Hi,Disk pools look like a good way to configure the MD3660i. The IOPS and rebuild times look better than disk groups.So will disk pools work the same way with MPIO (multi pathing) and ESX5.1 as disk...
View ArticleMD1000 connected to MD3000. Virtual Disk Not on Preferred Path
HelloI have an MD3000i box connected to 2 MD1000 boxes these are connected to a Dell Power Vault running Storage server 2003.Last night I connected up the 2nd MD1000 and added in 25TB worth of disks. I...
View ArticlePV MD 3200i - 12x 450 GB 15k RPM - SAS - What is the best RAID level approach?
Hi,we have this unit, purchased with 8x 450GB, and now we are looking to move/add more 4x hard-drive from another old server (Dell R410).Since our main usage is for host virtual hard-drive for VM´s but...
View Articlepowervault 3260 sas shared virtual disk-lun
Hi, i have a powervault 3260 sas and two r720 as hosts with ws2012. Each host has two dual sas HBA.I created three virtual disks and three luns respectively. I made one host group and then added the...
View ArticleDell Power Vault 132T - Tape Library and Tape Driver drivers for Windows...
Hello,I'm in search of drivers for the Dell Power Vault 132T for use with Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit.OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 x64Tape Library: Dell Power Vault 132TTape Drives: IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI...
View ArticleWrite Cache Hit 100% - MD3220
We run a PowerVault MD3220, 24 600GB 10K SAS Toshiba derives, uses SAS cables to attach to 2 256MB RAM clustered servers running W2k12 Hyper-v. This is a fairly new setup for us, and runs about 40-odd...
View ArticleConnecting 2 ESXi hosts to MD3220 SAS Array
I have two R620s which are going to server as VM hosts for multiple web servers (in a Windows NLB), and two other R620s which will be configured as physical database servers (in a Failover Cluster),...
View ArticlePE 610 server losing connection to LUNs on MD3200i
We have a Dell PE610 W2K8R2 as a host connected to 2 Dell 6224 switches and an MD3200i Storage device.I keep losing my connections this week to the LUNs, when they do appear in Disk Management I am...
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Windows not detecting MD3200
Good day, everyone! We have DELL 810 Server with Windows 2008 R2 and Dell Power Vault MD3200.MD3200 connect to server with 2 SAS cabels. I`m create disk with RAID, according to the instructions (result...
View ArticlePowervault 114X LTO4 tape drive error code A
One of the 2 tape drives in my powervault 114X displays error code A. What does this mean?The drive still works and is visible as online in Backup Exec 2010.
View ArticlePowerVault MD3000 - Questions about replacing SAS Controller Module
So one of the 0P2GW4 modules died on our PowerVault MD3000 so we bought a replacement. Both of the modules had only one input on them previously, but the new one has 2 inputs. Is there any issue with...
View Articlecan't access PowerVault 3600f via browser using IP addresses 192.168.128.101...
Hi all,I faced with strange problem during installation of MD3600f. I connected point to point to MD and assign 192.168.128.102 to my laptop. I managed to ping 192.168.128.101 (cont0) but couldn't...
View Articlemodular disk storage manager - configure alerts
Hi, i have a powervault 3260 sas with the latest version of modular disk storage manager installed.I try to configure email alertinf but there are not settings like smtp port , ssh, authentication.It...
View ArticleMD3200 (SAS ) Raid Controllers and VLAN
I have an MD3200 (SAS) and the host is running ESXi 5 U2. Is there a way to configure VLAN tagging on the management ports of the MD3200 apart from the standard IP address, subnet mask and gateway...
View ArticleMD3200i and VMFS5 and Virtual disk segment size
HiIm in the process for implement an MD3200i and im looking for someone who have experience with this kind of tasks.As far i understand, (and reeading this:...
View ArticleTL2000 compression set to no
i have a new TL2000 with a LTO4 tape drive and run BE 2012 on w2k8. I have set BE 2012 to use hardware compression if available or software. My backups don't seem to be compressed. I went to the web...
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