PV MD 3200i - 12x 450 GB 15k RPM - SAS - What is the best RAID level approach?
Hi,we have this unit, purchased with 8x 450GB, and now we are looking to move/add more 4x hard-drive from another old server (Dell R410).Since our main usage is for host virtual hard-drive for VM´s but...
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That setup would work just fine. As long as the 450GBof space for your SQL will be larger enough this config would be good for your performance and as well for the redundancy of the hard drives if one...
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Hi Kenny,tks for quick-reply. But can we remove 01 hd (450GB) from the first VD (10x 450 - RAID6) and then allocate it to the second VD?* As I know, RAID5 is not the best option for DB´s, the prefered...
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Unfortunately if the VD are already configured you cannot do a reconfigure to a smaller size. You are only able to reconfigure an array to a larger size. So if you have an empty drive slot you can add...
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ok Kenny,according to your post, if one of my 450GB hard-drive died, can I replace it with a new one of 1TB - for example - and the RAID for this VD will use the entire space instead use only 450GB...
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No, if for example a hard drive fails in your RAID 6 and you replace it with a 1 TB hard drive. When it rebuilds into the array it will only see the 450 GB.
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ok, it was my previous knowledge...
View Articlepowervault 3260 sas shared virtual disk-lun
Hi, i have a powervault 3260 sas and two r720 as hosts with ws2012. Each host has two dual sas HBA.I created three virtual disks and three luns respectively. I made one host group and then added the...
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Sotak,The way you will want to have this configured is being that you have 2 nodes needing access to the data, you will need to have cluster services enabled on the hosts. What that will do is allow...
View ArticleRe: powervault 3260 sas shared virtual disk-lun
To say it another way; 2 servers cannot share a SAN disk unless you have some kind of disk-locking mechanism in place. The most common option for this when running a Microsoft OS is Microsoft Cluster...
View ArticleDell Power Vault 132T - Tape Library and Tape Driver drivers for Windows...
Hello,I'm in search of drivers for the Dell Power Vault 132T for use with Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit.OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 x64Tape Library: Dell Power Vault 132TTape Drives: IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI...
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View ArticleRe: PowerVault TL2000 Error
I had encountered the same error on a Powervault TL2000 as well. opening up the library showed the same symptoms, the picker was unable to move up and error was returned.After dismantling the picker...
View ArticleWrite Cache Hit 100% - MD3220
We run a PowerVault MD3220, 24 600GB 10K SAS Toshiba derives, uses SAS cables to attach to 2 256MB RAM clustered servers running W2k12 Hyper-v. This is a fairly new setup for us, and runs about 40-odd...
View ArticleConnecting 2 ESXi hosts to MD3220 SAS Array
I have two R620s which are going to server as VM hosts for multiple web servers (in a Windows NLB), and two other R620s which will be configured as physical database servers (in a Failover Cluster),...
View ArticleRe: Connecting 2 ESXi hosts to MD3220 SAS Array
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View ArticleRe: Connecting 2 ESXi hosts to MD3220 SAS Array
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View ArticleRe: Write Cache Hit 100% - MD3220
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View ArticleRe: Write Cache Hit 100% - MD3220
We have 2 connections from each server to the Md3220. I must have mistyped, each server is running with 256 GB of RAM, not MB. I am running Raid 10. It may well be that the VMs are too much for the...
View ArticlePE 610 server losing connection to LUNs on MD3200i
We have a Dell PE610 W2K8R2 as a host connected to 2 Dell 6224 switches and an MD3200i Storage device.I keep losing my connections this week to the LUNs, when they do appear in Disk Management I am...
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