Re: Clear Unreadable sectors detected error on MD3000
You have to run the SMCLI from within a command propt, as it's a command line executable. There is a reference manual for it within the product documentation.
View ArticleRe: PV136T (Help)
Hello pacatocidadao2013,The Serial port is an RS-232 connection with a 9-pin D-shell connector (DTE). It is compatible with serial ports on personal computers. The Serial port is used for local service...
View ArticleRe: Multiple MD sans to ESX cluster
Hello gerrybarnett,Yes you can use the second port on the Qlogic cards to connect to the second san. The reason Dell states that it is not a good thing as that if you were to have that HBA fail in the...
View ArticleRe: MD3660F and MD1200e connectivity
Hello gerrybarnett,Ok of your MD3660F is 4U then you will need to get the MD3060e. If your MD3660F is only 2U then you can add an MD1200e. Here is a link that shows the expansion enclosure that is...
View ArticleRe: Multiple MD sans to ESX cluster
If you are using FC switches (e.g. Brocade 300's or so), you can very easily do this.If you are using 2 dual port HBAs and are currently using 1 port per HBA to the existing SAN, you can indeed use the...
View ArticleRe: no luns available under mapping
Something unrelated to the LUN mapping; a system cannot connect to 2 isolated networks that share the same subnet.You'll want to change your cabling. Move vmnic5 to controller 1 data (iSCSI) port 1 and...
View ArticleLSI SAS Switch with MD32xx Head-Units
Hello -As is no surprise to anyone who's dug into the hardware behind the MD32xx series, it's all basically a LSI back-end on both the SAN controllers and the server HBAs. Has anyone tried the...
View ArticleMD1000 to MD3000 and back
We have two MD1000's in place with SAS drives and connected to a PERC/5e. A MD3000 became available for use, but had no drive. To test the shelf I moved the drives from one of the MD1000 to the the...
View ArticleRe: MD1000 to MD3000 and back
Hello leeawilson,There is one last thing that you can try is to go into the Perc5/e card and see if there is any virtual disk listed. If you see any virtual disk then you can try to bring it online if...
View ArticleRe: MD1000 to MD3000 and back
Actually, the disks appear as a foreign config on perc5/e but fail when imorting. Updateing the firmware now. Hopefully this will work. Not sure if there are any other options?
View ArticleRe: Multiple MD sans to ESX cluster
Thanks Sam. I would be using 2 x dual port HBAs so that each SAN has resilient connections from a port on each card.
View ArticleRe: MD1000 to MD3000 and back
Hello leeawilson,Updating the firmware is about your last option. The last option is to clear the foreign then it will boot off of any config that the drives have left. The problem is that once you...
View ArticleMD3000i question- One large disk group or 3 smaller disk groups.
Hi All, I have a MD3000i with 15 physical disks in it. I plan on connecting 5 Dell R720's to it. The R720's are going to be Windows 2012 Hyper-V servers so I can have about 30 - 50 Virtual servers in...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i question- One large disk group or 3 smaller disk groups.
Hello RJ5499,First thing is that you stated that you are going to have 5xR720 servers. With having that many servers if you don’t cluster the servers together then you can’t have all the servers...
View ArticleRe: Clear Unreadable sectors detected error on MD3000
Dear jecooksubether,Kindly check the error message in the link below which appearing when trying to open SMCLI.exe ,Is this normal ?Also if there is troubleshoot documentation please tell me how can i...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i question- One large disk group or 3 smaller disk groups.
Hi Sam, Thank you for the response. I understand about having multiple Virtual Disks for the servers, but I am wondering about disk groups. Can't one large disk group have as many virtual disks as I...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i question- One large disk group or 3 smaller disk groups.
An important note about your planned implementation; Windows 2012 is not a supported OS for connectivity to an MD3000i. This means it may or may not work and (controller/port) failover and/or port load...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i question- One large disk group or 3 smaller disk groups.
Hi Dev Mgr,Thanks for the response.I didn't know that Windows 2012 is not a supported OS for connectivity to an MD3000i. I didn't install the MDSM software from the MD3000i DVD. I installed the MDSM...
View ArticlePV124T not displaying in device manager
I am working on a PV124T with a SAS connection to a windows 2008 r2 server. The server sees the controller card but not the tape library. I have tried to install both the Dell and Symantec (Backup Exec...
View ArticleRe: PV124T not displaying in device manager
Hello dgutschow,Want to make sure that you are powering up in the correct order. First you need to power on the PV124T & let it get to a ready/ idle state. Once that is done then you can power on...
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