Here is a link to the user guide on the MD3200i and if you navigate to page 79 it walks you through how to configure SNMP traps.
ftp.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200i_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf
Please feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or concerns I would be happy to assist.
Specific situation here is volume performance. Any more information?
thanks
Specific setups may be highly critical database setups you may want to disable write cache (set it to write through). It slows you down, but ensures that if the raid controller sends the write confirmation back to the OS, it has actually been written to disk and isn't in write cache.
i have connected a md1200 to my esxi 5 host server.
one large raid 5 array 11TB total disk.
I would like 500GB for my VM
But I would then like 2 x 5TB volumes presented to the VM.
How would i accomplish this?
thanks.
Hello.
I'd have TL2000 tape library with fiber channel (service tag 951W3J1) and want to replace internal LTO4 tape drive to LTO5. Advice please, it's possible, and if yes, which drive i must buy?
Also i have one more question, which optical cable i need to connect it to HP Procurve GBIC?
i keep getting this warning on the md3200i. I changed the disk group to preferred path as well as all the luns under it but it keeps going back to the other non prefereed path. any idea?
Is it possible to Configure more than one LUN?
PInout image above is based on post by MightyElectro, but using the correct pinout numberings for DB-9 and PS/2 standards. I've also verified that these are correct here in our lab with a PRC cable and multimeter.
Thanks JIMNIM for the great layout you provided. I've made my own adapter and cable before for this and if anyone needs one and doesn't feel comfortable trying to make one they can contact me and I can probably work something out. The cable I made is USB to Ethernet to PS/2 and I made the Ethernet to PS/2 cable for the MD3000 to go along with all of my other proprietary cables that I can just plug into my USB to Ethernet console cable that I use for routers and switches etc.
Hello, I am having trouble getting my ESXi boxes to see a PowerVault MD3200 Direct Attached Storage array. This does not appear to be a very common setup, as I have had a difficult time finding documentation that is helpful, nor have I found a thread in the forums. So I am hoping someone here can help.
My setup:
Both R710s are running ESXi 5.0.0 and have mutiple VMs on each my vCenter Server is one of the VMs
Here are the steps I took:
Everything stops here because the SAS Interfaces are not detected. A few notes:
Running the command esxcli software vib list | grep LSI from the console shows that the SAS Provider installed successfully..
Running the command #esxcfg-scsidevs -a from the console shows that the adapter is there..
vmhba2 mpt2sas link-n/a sas.5848f690ecc2b200 (0:5:0.0) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter
But the HBAs are not detected when I attempt toe configure the storage array. Hope this makes sense... Any help would be greatly appreciated!
So you've had success w/ serial shell access via USB on these systems? I've not had the best of luck with that in the past, though I'm sure that's due to driver compatibility with some of the hardware I've seen people try...
ive had great luck with the usb to serial cables I buy and make so far and they work well with the MD series, even with the drivers it usually just downloads from windows update and works very easily.
Cable on the far right is the PS2 to RJ45 for the MDs I have
Other adapters are APC UPS/PDUs, switches and routers, and the blue cable is a calypso systems amplifier adapter. It works perfectly for everything I've tried it on and needed to make a cable for. I've been tired of carrying around numerous cables for proprietary systems and instead made this small kit.
With an MD1200 you cannot give a VM a single disk larger than 2TB with vSphere5.
Rumor is that vSphere6 will increase the maximum (vmdk) filesize, but that is speculation till vSphere6 is actually out.
Your only choice is to give the VM 5 x 2TB disks. You could then use dynamic disk to span them together.
However, here are a few recommendations:
- don't use raid 5 with more than 6 or 7 drives; instead move to raid 6 if reliability is important or raid 10 if performance is important
- don't use dynamic disk on top of hardware raid
Usually this means the host (or one of them if this is a cluster type setup) doesn't have a connection to one of the controllers.
Are you manually trying to register the host in MDSM, but the WWNs aren't being seen in that wizard?
I have 7 disks and configured a RAID 5.
Presented One large 10+ TB LUN to vSphere (Datastore)
Created a bunch of 2TB hard drives (vmdk files)
Used dik anager in windows to span them all together to achive my 2 x 5 TB NTFS volumes.
yes I have 2 esxi hosts. one host have 2 paths to each lun. but one host only have one path due to a failed nic. but why woul this cause the md to send these alerts? one host has 2 paths
I have a PowerVault TL2000 with 2 IBM 3580 LTO3-HH drives. I do NOT have an iscsi-to-SAS module in the back of the TL2000. However, I do have the SAS cable plugged from the back of the TL2000 into the server, and a network cable from the tape drive directly attached to the server. I am able to see a single drive, but using TSM, I need to define a path to the library. Does anyone know what I have to do/install to be able to see the library in the device manager?
Thanks,
Don Hipp
Is the PowerVault MD1000 compatible with 12th generation Dell PowerEdge servers such as the r520?
If so, can I install a Dell perc 6/e controller in a Dell 12th generation server?
Anything else to be aware of?
THANKS.
