SAN HQ needs logs folder to be shared to make the client to access.
I did not do this while i was installing. is there anyway we can change the location?
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SAN HQ client
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iSCSI to SAS Bridge on TL4000
Our TL4000 tape library is out of warranty. I think we need a replacement iSCSI to SAS bridge. I have already tried a replacement H176G Assy, Cbl, Sas, Ext, Mini, 0.6m, 1x2. Here's the symptoms. After rebooting the tape library, which has 2 tape drives, and attached server during a Microsoft DPM backup only one tape drive was showing up in Device Manager and iSCSI Initiator on the server, as well as in Device Management in the TL2000/TL4000 iSCSI-SAS Bridge GUI. I have rebooted the library and server, re-discovered the iSCSI targets on the server. I then swithced the Y end of the cable on the tape drives, and then the media changer and other drive showed up. I thought it might be the cable, so I replaced it. Same symptoms. In Device Management in the Bridge GUI all 3 targets show up but the drive that doesn't show up doesn't have Device info listed for it, just the Target and Device WWN. Going to the tape library GUI iteself everything is showing up correctly. DPM is running fine with just the library and one drive showing up. There's nothing in the bridge logs. Is it a bad iSCSI to SAS bridge? The server connected to the library through iSCSI is a Dell PowerEdge R510 running Windows Server 2008 R2 and Micrsoft's DPM 2012 SP1.
Thanks.
Cyndi
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CX4-120 won´t come up to life
Hello good people,
I have a huge problem in my hands, we have turned off a Emc CX4-120, and when we turned it on again, we could no more connect to Navisphere and the Storage itself would not give any activity at the Brocade ports, the lights on the fiber ports at the Switch are off all the time while the lights at the Fibre ports on the Storage are orange, and not connection can be made....
Does anyony have an idea about what is happening?
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System Restore Disk
I have a new Dell Inspiron One 2330 computer with Windows 8, and I am trying to get a restore disk. I have plugged in a external backup drive with 1Tb available, but the restore function will not recognize it. The program asks for a USB Key. Any help would be appreciated.
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Installing second hard drive on Dell Inspiron 530S (Slimline)
Hi, I'm thinking of installing a second hard drive on my Dell Inspiron 530S. I have noted that there are four unique screws for the existing hard drive, and was wondering where I could get them for my second hard drive in order for me to be able to install the second drive within the case. These screws go into the side of the hard drive which is then slotted into a cage, so the head needs to be the right diameter and height.
I found this image in an earlier post, and it looks like this:
In many posts, it is said that the part I want is Dell Part #WN322, but according to the listing, it is a hex-head screw, and this is clearly a very thick round headed screw instead --> http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=fed&sku=wn322
In other posts, it was said that an alternative are these screws, but they are also hex-head --> http://www.maplin.co.uk/hard-drive-screw-x-50-37635
Is it just that the hex-head mounting screws will also work??? I'm quite confused right now as to what four screws I need. Thanks for any help.
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Dell DataSafe Online
Help! I just renewed my subscription for DataSafe Online for another year, and now I can't get my backup to work. I selected files for backup, but when I click to do a manual backup, I get the following error message:
BuEng_2203
MD5 validation failed, backup aborted
I can't find any place on the Dell site to get help for Dell DataSafe, unless I pay for an online chat with tech support, since my warranty just expired on my laptop. Any ideas?
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Unable to receive targets from MD3000i
Hi Dell community,
It appears that our Dell MD3000i is not able to respond with proper target names:
iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 192.168.4.200
192.168.2.200:3260,1 l:��3
192.168.4.200:3260,1 l:��3
192.168.2.201:3260,2 l:��3
192.168.4.201:3260,2 l:��3
Could anyone please advise about what I am doing wrong while configuring Dell storage or what information can I provide to give a broader view on this issue?
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Drive replacement procedure
I have an EMC which I didn't setup, but its in a raid 5 with 8 disks. 1 disk failed, and we had a spare disk still new shrink wrapped. I removed the bad drive, inserted the new one, and arrow went from orange to blue, blinked for a little bit, then back to yellow.
Looking on screen refreshing throughout, the disk got recognized, said 'transitioning', then the status was removed.
So I read this thread http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/3412/p/19466778/20185947.aspx#20185947 which talked about 'specific' disks, but think this is not the case as they had a spare one. I am not in my co-lo right now to give the new one (it is installed right now but showing removed). That above thread mentions a part # starting with 005 or 004, but looking at the existing drive I don't see that. The drive that failed is;
Seagate Barracuda ES 750G
Part: 9BL148-090
I plugged that drive into an external, looked via FDISK and there are no partitions. I don't know how the navisphere works, but can I simply try to create a partition, format it (do a disk check) and then just re-instert? If so, what is the partition type?
On the same question, is there anything I can do via the navisphere express software remotely, to try and format that disk, etc as were now running without a safety net.
Thanks for all read/replies.
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Dell 2950 and QLA2342 Fiber Adapter
Can anyone provide assistance with these devices? I have a 2950 server that is running 2003 ENT. R2 with a PCI QLA2342 card. Not as experience with fiber cards and it came with the Dell server awhile back. I am trying to see if there is any way to determine if the card is functional other than it showing up in device manager.
The card is connected to a Quantum DX30, which is apparently a very old device, via fiber cabling. The fiber card show’s that is has the drivers installed already in device manager. I have solid green LED on the dual port fiber card. However, 2003 does not show the Quantum as a tape library and medium changer in device manager.
Any help would be appreciated.
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VMware migration from EMC to EQL
Hi all,
Hope someone can help?
A customer is migrating vSphere from EMC to EqualLogic
Existing setup:
CX4-120, 2x Brocade 300, each ESXi host has 2x Emulex LPe1150 4Gb HBA's and two NICs with EQL MEM installed withaccess to a VMFS5 LUN on the EQL.
The EMC LUN is on 5x SATA II disks, RAID 5, it's a physical RDM in ESXi.
When performing a cold Storage vMotion to the EQL data throughput is only 235Mbps :( I have a limited downtime window and 2TBs to move.
I know that the block size difference between VMFS 3 & 5 can be slow but we hoped for something faster from the EMC.
Any help gratefully received.
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MD3000i: Degraded Physical Disk Channel
Hello,
I have a Dell MD3000i storage and one additional enclosure attached.
On Summary/Recovery Guru there is one alert: Degraded Physical Disk Channel - Degraded physical disk channels: 0, 1
Can you please help me to solve this problem?
Thank you!
Current configuration
Firmware version: 07.35.39.64
NVSRAM version: N1532-735890-005
Summary
Node ID: MD3000i_1
Host IP Address:
Host ID: Out-of-Band
Event Error Code: 1209
Event occurred: 01.04.2013 02:36:44
Event Message: Drive channel set to Degraded
Component type: Channel
Component location: Drive-side: channel 2
Event Priority: Critical
Component Type: Channel
Component Location: Drive-side: channel 2
Summary
Node ID: MD3000i_1
Host IP Address:
Host ID: Out-of-Band
Event Error Code: 1513
Event occurred: 01.04.2013 02:36:45
Event Message: Individual drive - Degraded path
Component type: Channel
Component location: Drive-side: channel 2
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MD3200 clustering inside Windows 2008 R2
Hello,
i am trying to setup clustering with ISCSI on MD3200 but cluster check is failing.
Over windows iscsi initiator i connected to storage and i did not use multipathing each path on the same is same. Now i have 2 luns from storage , quorum 1gb, and data lun 120gb. This check fails for quorum disk and i have no clue why since it's added the same way like the bigger data LUN. Any thoughts?
This is the error:
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Which one is better, MD3200 with multiple MD1200? or Multiple MD3200 in one group?
I have a concern that is it possible to use multiple MD3200 Dell SAN in one group to have one large group of large space? (like using 4 11TB Md3200 and use them in one group to get space of 44TB?)
Or its a good idea to have one MD3200 and multiple MD1200 server to increase the space?
How they both different and which one is better if i availability is concern?
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MD3000i - Degraded channel / physical disk paths
I have the Support files collected and need someone to take a look and tell me how to fix this. I will send via email to Dell support once I'm contacted.
Failure Entry 1: DEGRADED_DRIVE_PATH
Degraded physical disk paths:
Channel: 0
Related
physical disks: (0, 4)
Individual Physical Disk - Degraded Path
Failure Entry 2: DEGRADED_DRIVE_CHANNEL
Storage array: Array Name removed by me
Degraded physical
disk channels: 0
Degraded Physical Disk Channel
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Dell MD3000i and Degraded Physical Disk Channel
Good day,
We have one storage Dell MD 3000i with one additional enclosure. And today we notice two errors in log:
1. Physical Disk channel set to Degraded
Date/Time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
Sequence number: 9783
Event type: 1209
Description: Physical Disk channel set to Degraded
Event specific codes: 0/0/0
Event category: Error
Component type: Channel
Component location: Physical Disk-side: channel 1
Logged by: RAID Controller Module in slot 1
2. Individual physical disk - Degraded path
Date/Time: 30.04.13 10:56:14
Sequence number: 9784
Event type: 1513
Description: Individual physical disk - Degraded path
Event specific codes: 0/0/0
Event category: Error
Component type: Channel
Component location: Physical Disk-side: channel 1
Logged by: RAID Controller Module in slot 1
Recovery Guru in this case say "You must contact your technical support representative to correct this failure. DO NOT attempt to fix this problem yourself". So, how we can receive technical support recommendations and try to fix this failure?
If need more detail, we can post any output from Storage Array Profile.
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Dell SAS and FC storage
Hi,
MD3000 tech spec states:
SAS connectors (per storage controller): 2x4 3.0 Gbps SAS (SFF 8470) "IN" connector for connection to the host.
If we use 5/E SAS HBA maximum throughput we could get is 3 Gbps?
and MD3000 could support max 6 Gbps to server with 6 Gbps HBA adapter?
If replacing MD3000 with DELL FC storage that includes four on board 8 Gb/s Fibber Channel ports we will benefit in throughput even by connecting storage with one port 4 Gbps HBA PCIe 2 Gen adapter (+1gbps)?
Max throughput could be 32 Gbps (four on board 8 Gb/s Fibber Channel ports) but as our Dell server has two PCIe x8 and two PCI x4 slots we could expect max 24 gbps throughput from FC HBA?
Is it correct? This is just throughput in general but lets say disk drives on both storage are the same - SAS 300gb 15K.
Thanks
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MD1200 Orange Light
Currently have a MD1200 connected via SAS Cable to a Server.
Orange light on the MD1200 - Cannot access this through the Server to confirm what the error is. MD1200 basically acts as a external hard drive to the server. Checked the Hard Drives that are in MD1200 and are all ok and data is being stored fine.
Any ideas on how to find out what the light is on for?
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Precision T5600 SAS/SATA Perc H310
Hi All
I just received a new shiny T5600. I have a question about the Perc controller, as I am not able to find any details on other forums or the internet.
I have a SSD which I connected to SATA1 and installed Win7 64bit. The DVD drive is connected to SATA0. On the motherboard, I noticed a SAS1 port connector, as well as four SATA connectors (numbered HDD0,1,2,3). I wish to connect an additional hard drive to one of these ports, but amy getting nowhere with this. Windows does not detect the drive, nor list any storage controller being installed. I have downloaded and installed all the drivers. The SAS Raid Driver fails to install (update package is not compatible with your system configuration).
The BIOS only lists the two SATA ports, and lists the devices connected to it, but no other ports. During startup, there is no prompt to enter any RAID config (usually Ctrl+R).
The SATA operation mode is set to AHCI, and I have tried ATA (the only other option available) but nothing positive as to the other SATA ports. Am I to assume that the 'hardware' (controller) is there, but can't be used?
Would be grateful to any help or advice.
Cheers
Leon
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Dell MD3000i Firmware Upgrade problem
Dears ,
I got a problem , I upgraded my MD3000i NVSRAM firmware to 7.3 instead of 6.7 .
Now, I'm trying to upgrade the RAID controller Module firmware version ot 7.3 as well , but i couldn't access the file from MDSM .
i'm trying to select the file (compatible firmware files) doesn't recognize the firmware file and when trying to drop down to select all files and choose the firmware file i gives me below error :
is not a valid firmware transferable file ) ,
can you see attached error ?
would you mind helping me out of this ?
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MD3220 RAID Controller Module wide port has gone from degraded to failed
The MD3220 hosts the shared storage of a Hyper-V-Failover-Cluster.
At weekand in the night the MD3230 suddenly shows following errors:
Datum/Uhrzeit: 13.07.13 23:46:53
Sequenznummer: 4053
Ereignistyp: 282B
Ereigniskategorie: Intern
Priorität: Kritisch
Beschreibung: Expansion enclosure path redundancy lost
Ereignisspezifische Kodes: 0/0/0
Komponententyp: Gehäuse
Komponentenstandort: Gehäuse, 0
Protokolliert von: RAID-Controller-Modul in Steckplatz 1
Rohdaten:
4d 45 4c 48 03 00 00 00 d5 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00
2b 28 4a 01 cd ca e1 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 22 00 00 00
0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 00 00 00 36 00 01 01 08 00 00 00 04 00 00 08
00 00 00 00
Datum/Uhrzeit: 13.07.13 23:46:37
Sequenznummer: 4049
Ereignistyp: 1710
Ereigniskategorie: Fehler
Priorität: Kritisch
Beschreibung: RAID Controller Module wide port has gone from degraded to failed
Ereignisspezifische Kodes: 0/0/0
Komponententyp: RAID-Controller-Modul
Komponentenstandort: Gehäuse, 0, Steckplatz 0
Protokolliert von: RAID-Controller-Modul in Steckplatz 1
Rohdaten:
4d 45 4c 48 03 00 00 00 d1 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00
10 17 18 01 bd ca e1 51 14 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 22 00 00 00
08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
0a 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 00 00 00 00 00 01 02 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 08
00 00 00 00 04 00 26 08 01 00 00 00
Datum/Uhrzeit: 13.07.13 23:46:37
Sequenznummer: 4048
Ereignistyp: 1710
Ereigniskategorie: Fehler
Priorität: Kritisch
Beschreibung: RAID Controller Module wide port has gone from degraded to failed
Ereignisspezifische Kodes: 0/0/0
Komponententyp: RAID-Controller-Modul
Komponentenstandort: Gehäuse, 0, Steckplatz 1
Protokolliert von: RAID-Controller-Modul in Steckplatz 1
Rohdaten:
4d 45 4c 48 03 00 00 00 d0 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00
10 17 18 01 bd ca e1 51 14 00 00 00 00 01 01 00
00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 22 00 00 00 22 00 00 00
08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01 00 00 00
0a 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 00 00 00 00 00 01 02 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 08
00 00 00 00 04 00 26 08 02 00 00 00
But the Modular Disk Storage Manager shows all disks ok.
The eventlog of the cluster nodes shows at the same time a series of errors, warnings and informations like
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort1.
admd1:0:0 Path Failed.
A fail-over on \Device\MPIODisk1 occurred.
Device path information for admd1:0:0:0 has been removed per MPIO notification (object count 1).
What happens with the Storage?
(Sorry for the mix of german and english, but the Storage Manager is in german, the server OS is english)
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