MD1200 Enclosure ID conflict detected across enclosures
Hi,We have an MD3200i running fine with no problem and we want to add an MD1200 to it. We've done it other times with other MD3200s and MD1200s with no problem.When connecting the MD1200 to the MD3200i...
View ArticleMD3000i Critical Alert Message - Discrete lines diagnostic failure
I have a Dell MD3000i SAN that is generating a dozen or more "Discrete lines diagnostic failure" alert messages every day. Has anyone seen this before? Is this related to one of the controllers, the...
View ArticleMD3000i iSCSI port errors when connected
Yesterday, we had a power outage, beyond the life of my UPS. When close to the battery limit, I had to shut down my MD3000i. An hour later, when power was restored, the array started fine and showed a...
View ArticleMD3200 27TB Configured 0Mb available Whta Happened
MD3200i autoconfiguration set up as I needed 2 Raid 5 Disk groups each with 6 drives. Luns Volumes numbering is set but I do not have any available storage. What do I need to do to get available...
View ArticlePowerVault MD3200i- Windows Server 2003 iSCSI MPIO
I have a PowerVaut MD3200i Array with 2 controllers, two iSCSI VLAN's configured on each controller. I have two VMware Virtual Hosts connecting to 4 Virtual Disks on the MD3200i array with MPIO and no...
View ArticleOwnership/preferred path
Hello, We had a power outage last night. When everything came back up, I see a "Storage Array Needs Attention" referring to on of my virtual disks. In the MDSM I went to Storage > Virtual Disk >...
View ArticleReplacing batteries in MD3000i
Hello, I have a MD3000i with twoo RAID controllers, and I want replace the batteries because are finishing the lifecycle.I want take a moment that all servers connected to MD3000i are off to turn off...
View ArticleDell Powervault 3260i ISCSI Setup
I have a Dell Powervault 3260i with two controllers. I need to connect two independent windows servers to this SAN using iSCSI and make use of dual controllers for fail-over. Is there any specific...
View ArticleBad Tapes attention flag
Hi,We are using Dell powevault tl2000 backup server. for most of the tapes showing bad tapes even it is a good.yesterday also replaced three old good tapes..once triggered backup from netbackup again...
View ArticleNeed to extend Hard Disk
Hello,I have Dell Power Vault ™ NX3200 Network Attached Storage, We have 12 TB (2 TB in 6 slots) hard Disk in it. 9 TB in use and the rest are for backup.Now, We want to increase the Hard Disk we have...
View ArticleMD3220i + 5524 switches
Hi, I'm planning to use a pair of PC 5524 switches to connect (iSCSI network) a MD3220i SAN and two Windows 2012 R2 Servers.Is this a supported configuration? Are my 5524 suitable for iSCSI traffic...
View ArticleDR4100 NIC Upgrade Path?
Greets,I purchased a DR4100 with GigE ports. Is there an upgrade kit or approved part that would allow me to upgrade the ports to 10 GbE?
View ArticlePowervault NF500 to NX3200 questions
Looking to retire an ageing NF500 (6 300GB SAS in 2xR5 arrays) with an NX3200 and have a couple of questions:1) using 6x600GB SAS disk in a similar arrangment to the old NF500 is no longer...
View ArticlePowerVault MD3000i sold amber and rebooting
Hello,I got a problem with my MD3000i. It all of a sudden when to this state without any warnings.This what it's doing. Sold amber sold light and rebooting.I only see two errors on the com port.Error...
View ArticlePERC 5/E changing controller write policy, is that a bad sign?
The last couple days I've noticed chunks of events like this showing up in /var/log/messages. Are they indicative of a failure/problem? Never noticed them before on this server. Wonder if my PERC or...
View ArticleExtend Memory Size and merging new drives into a Previous single drive
Hello thereWe have NAS Dell Power Vault NX3200 where six external SATA hard drives are fixed and configured RAID 5 to a single Partition of 9 TB previousNow we want to Increase the drive size, so we...
View ArticlePowerEdge R410 additonal SAS HBA card
I need to connect HP StorageWorks MSL 2024 to a new server with SAS interface. I have an additional R410 1U server and I would like to know that is it possible to buy and attach a SAS HBA Card to that?...
View ArticleNX3100 delete virtual disk
I have a nx3100 that has 5 Virtual Disks. I want to delete two of them and create one larger one. I have removed all of the files off of the drives. I then go into Server Administrator under...
View ArticleDell Power Vault MD 1200 Maxmim Lun/volume Disk size
Dear All..I just willing to know that one of the client having Dell PowerEdge 420 running Window 2008 R2.Planning to have 2 nos. of MD1200 with ( 12*4TB) each.Connected with single PERC card.I need to...
View ArticleMD3200 and new SED Hard Drives to install
Is it safe to install four new SED drives into the 4 available slots in my MD3200 while its running?It has 8 SED drives already which are configured as two datastores for Vnmware Hosts usage.Thanks in...
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