Re: Modular Storage Services runs with "interact with desktop"
Hello Barbara,Have you rebooted both nodes of the cluster? As your MD3200 is a SAS MD & if you update MDSM then it needs to reboot for the agents to take effect.Please let us know if you have any...
View ArticleRe: Dell PowerVault MD3220 SAS DAS and vSphere 5.x High Availability (HA)
You need some SAS HBA card on r720 for the connection to MD3200. There is no problem with Vmware HA on r720 cluster to MD3200 SAS.Deployment reference: "md3200-family-deployment-guide with vmware...
View ArticleRe: Modular Storage Services runs with "interact with desktop"
Yes, both nodes have rebootet.
View ArticleRe: MD3220i - Windows 2008 virtual disks offline
Problem solved. I was clicking on partition window in Server _Manager but it has to be done over disk window.
View ArticleBy-passed Physical Disk MD3000i
Hi,We had a physical drive fail in one of our MD3000i enclosures yesterday, and our hotspare disk took over.We had another brand new drive of the same size and with an identical firmware as the failed...
View ArticleConnect a powervault MD1000 to poweredge R720?
Hi, I need to connect a nearly new MD1000 powervault (purchased on delloutlet earlier this year) to a new poweredge R720 . I know this is not offically supported. Would folks suggest going with a H810...
View ArticleRe: Connect a powervault MD1000 to poweredge R720?
Hello Edward E Meyer,Here is a link to the compatibility matrix for the MD1000....
View ArticleRe: Modular Storage Services runs with "interact with desktop"
Hello Barbara,I would suggest that you open a support case so that we can get some logs from your servers and the MD to see where the issue is coming from. Please let us know if you have any other...
View ArticleRe: By-passed Physical Disk MD3000i
Hello Magnus,i am going to send you an email. If you can email me back with the logs I can review them for you to see why you are getting that error. Please let us know if you have any other questions.
View ArticleRe: Dell PowerVault MD3220 SAS DAS and vSphere 5.x High Availability (HA)
We have 3 x R710s with MD3200+MD1220+MD1200 DAS storage. We don't actually use HA, however if I go to the cluster, click on DRS, then Edit, under Cluster Features I have the option Turn On vSphere HA...
View ArticleRe: Connect a powervault MD1000 to poweredge R720?
The MD1000 is only officially supported with the PERC5E or PERC6E. Neither of those is officially supported with a PowerEdge R720.So your only options will be non-supported solutions.You can either get...
View ArticleRe: By-passed Physical Disk MD3000i
Hi Samuel,I just emailed you the support bundle for review.Thanks for taking time to review it.Kind regardsMagnus
View ArticleRe: Dynamic Disk Pools
Looking for the same thing. I did get a response from Dell support one time. They gave me an answer using an "internal tool". I need to ask again.
View Articleshutdown and startup sequence for DL2000, MD1000, and TL2000 backup appliances
Im moving my backup appliances and wanted to get some input on the shutdown and startup sequence for my Dell DL2000 server, MD1000 storage array, and TL2000 tape backup appliances. In what order do I...
View ArticleRe: shutdown and startup sequence for DL2000, MD1000, and TL2000 backup...
Hello mojogar,You will need to shutdown tin the following order:Shutdown1. TL20002. DL20003. MD1000Startup1. MD10002. TL20003. DL2000 Please let us know if you have any other questions.
View ArticleRe: Dynamic Disk Pools
Enclosure loss protection is only possible with raid 10 where each mirror has 1 drive on one enclosure and the other drive on a different enclosure.Dynamic disk pool is somewhat leveraging the raid 6...
View ArticleMD3000i unreadable sectors
Greetings!We have an MD3000i that has been in operation for some time. It's configured with 15 x 750GB SAS drives, and recently we've experienced a couple of drive failures, including 1 of the 2 hot...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i unreadable sectors
Gsalv,Sometimes when you have logical and physical errors in the same RAID array it can be a puncture. The best thing to do so that we can see exactly what is going on would be to pull a support...
View ArticleRe: MD3000i unreadable sectors
Just a tip, for better performance create one single R10 array instead of 3.
View ArticleRe: MD3000i unreadable sectors
After reviewing the Support bundle the issue you are dealing with is a puncture of the VD. The minimum thing I would recommend to resolve this would be to back up the data and delete the disk group....
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