MD38xxi or 38xxf SAS IN ports.
HI,The MD3800i offers 2x 10Gbe ISCSI ports per controller but also lists 2x 12Gbps SAS-IN Host ports. Are these available for Host use and can we concurrently connect ISCSI hosts and SAS hosts to the...
View ArticleRemove disks from Disk Pool on MD3220i
Hi thereWe recently added 3 new HDD's to our MD3220i and added them to the wrong disk pool via MDSM. We need to remove the disks from the pool to add to a separate disk group.I've searched all over and...
View ArticleMD3000i Battery Replacement Issues
Got a MD3000i with dual controllers. Looked at the manager today to find that both batteries were in need of replacement. I took controller 0 offlline, removed the board, replaced battery, plugged...
View ArticleDecrease Latency on MD3200i
Hello, I have a MD3200i. It is used for CSVs running hyper-v VMs in a Microsoft cluster, and another drive on another host. The latency has been increasing as activity has been increasing. There are...
View ArticleMD3620i High Latency And Low Throughput
Hi Everyone, I have a big issue and was hoping someone can shed some light. We have a dual controller MD3620i with 22 disks in one disk group running RAID 6. Drives are 900GB 10k RPM SAS. On top of...
View ArticleMD3000i Chronic Failed Battery
I have a MD3000i with dual controllers (firmware 07.35.39.64). Recently, batteries seem to fail in controller 1. Some batteries have worked for 4-5 months while others (newly purchased, supposedly new...
View ArticleMD3000i - Storage Array Componet-Loss of Communication and Failed or Degraded...
When I replace MD3000i powersupply
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MD3000i - Storage Array Componet-Loss of Communication and Failed or Degraded...
When I replaced the MD3000i power supply. It show another message as below.1.Storage Array Componet-Loss of Communication2.Failed or Degraded SAS PortPlease help to us solve this problem. Thank you.1
View ArticleConfiguring Powervault MD3000 on Linux.
Hello people:To be honest, my experience witn SAN are very limited and we just recieve a MD3000 to be installed on Red Hat Linux distribution. However I followed the instruction in orden to can use it....
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PowerVault 3200i issue
Hi Guys!I noticed blinking orange light on my Dell Powervault 3200i and when I open powervault modular disk storage manager I noticed warning as the picture bellow. Can anyone tell me how to sort...
View ArticlePowerVault LTO5-140
We have this unit (external) and it just started giving us an error yesterday. The error code on the front was displaying 6. So I did Function code 1 diagnostics per the documentation that I could...
View ArticlePowerVault LTO-6 External Tape Backup LTFS not supported
hi we have the PowerVault LTO-6 External Tape Backup,does LTFS support on windows?currently we are not able to see any drive tape on windows..can we use a third party tape backup driver for this?tnx
View ArticlePowerVault LTO3-060 - Media Failure
Hi All,I have a PowerVault (LTO3-060) where its 'Clean' and 'Fault' status LEDs are flashing which indicates a media failure. This happened only recently. I've used a cleaning cartridge and tried with...
View ArticleUpgrading a PowerVault Physical Disk Firmware
Hi thereI need to upgrade the firmware of a handful of hard drives in our MD3220i. I know I've done this before a year or so ago, but I can't figure out how to do so again.The disk firmware page here...
View ArticleMDSM v11.20 not launching create virtual disk window
I recently updated my firmware and MDSM to the latest version. Today, I was needing to create some virtual disk, but when I click on Create Virtual Disk nothing happens. I've never had this issue...
View ArticlePowervault MD3620i / MDSM v.11.20 not bringing up create virtual disk window
I recently updated my firmware and MDSM to the latest version. Today, I was needing to create some virtual disks, but when I click on Create Virtual Disk nothing happens (the config window does not...
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PowerVault MD3200 / Storage Manager upgrade
Hi there!I just got a new PowerVault MD3200. I installed the Storage Manager software on a laptop and I tried to connect to the MD3200 for the first time. It found it on the network, it recognized, but...
View ArticleExtending an array on an MD3200 + MD1220
Hi there!I wanted to ask if it's possible to extend an existing array without needing to delete it. For example if we have a MD3200 full with 12x 450GB SAS 15k 3.5" HDDs on a RAID5 array and a MD1220...
View ArticlePowerVault TL4000 ISCSI Bridge Factory Reset
My organization was recently given a PowerVault TL4000 to use for backups from CommVault. We've been able to get the device configured so that we are able to access the Libraries and Firmware. However...
View ArticleDell PowerVault MD3200i disk storage capacity upgrade
We are planning to upgrade the disk storage capacity of our Dell PowerVault MD3200i. Currently our disk storage has the following specifications:Current Disk Storage Configuration: 16.4 TB, 8 units 3TB...
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