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...
View ArticleSystem 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...
View ArticleUnable 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 192.168.4.200192.168.2.200:3260,1...
View ArticleDrive 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...
View ArticleDell 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...
View ArticleDell 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 DegradedDate/Time: 30.04.13 10:56:14Sequence number:...
View ArticleVMware migration from EMC to EQL
Hi all,Hope someone can help?A customer is migrating vSphere from EMC to EqualLogicExisting setup:CX4-120, 2x Brocade 300, each ESXi host has 2x Emulex LPe1150 4Gb HBA's and two NICs with EQL MEM...
View ArticleMD3000i: 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, 1Can you...
View ArticleInspiron 530 second hard drive
I see that I have a second bracket for a hard drive in the computer. I'd like to add a second hard drive, a 750GB Seagate barracuda 7200.11 hard driveI have: Dell Inspiron 530OS: Vista service pack 2i...
View ArticleRaid 1
I mistakenly deleted array of raid 1 and iwant to create the array but it says all the files will be deleted.My main concern my primary disk because it contains data.Please help me !!!
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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....
View ArticleMD3000i - 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_PATHDegraded...
View ArticleWhich one is better, MD3200 with multiple MD1200? or Multiple MD3200 in one...
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...
View ArticleDell 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...
View ArticleMD1200 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...
View ArticleCX3-20 backplane cables out of sequence - office move jumbled them up!
HiWe've just moved offices and our 7 rack CX3-20 has been re-installed in the new building but the sequence of which cable goes in which fibre port for the 4Gb backplanes has been lost! Duh!Currently...
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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...
View ArticleMD3220 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 23:46:53Sequenznummer: 4053Ereignistyp:...
View ArticleFault reported by SPS. Replace SPS
I received the following 2 email alerts from our SAN the other day:Time Stamp 07/14/13 06:18:24 Event Number 940 Severity Error Host MSVOTTSAN1_SPA Storage Array APM00081700058 SPA Device Enclosure 0...
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best practise for Dell AX4-5F
hi there,I've been asked to look review a Dell AX4-5F SAN and was hoping for some advice.Below is the LUN layout. It seems to consist of 2x RAID 5 arrays - is that best practise? Would RAID 10 or 50 be...
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