Re: Help Needed expanding a MD1000
Hello AntAdmin,What you will also need to do is to make sure that your EMM are at the latest firmware on both MD1000’s and that all HDD are at the latest Firmware so that when you add the new enclosure...
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Get it all up to date before I add the new one, that sounds good.Will I be able to get it up to date without deleting the virtual disks that it has on it now?This is my backup system, so backing up...
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Hello AntAdmin,Yes you can update all the firmware without losing any data. it is best that you stop all I/O to the MD1000 when upgrading the firmware to ensure that you don’t lose any data.You can...
View ArticleRe: General Questions on Adding Storage to PE2950
Hello OsirisGuy,Yes you can attach an MD to your PE2950 & get the drives seen. What you will need to confirm is that the controller card for your MD is supported in the server. Here is a link to...
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I just noticed that the MD3 series supports 3TB and 4TB HDD, however the PE will still not recognize the extra storage space, is this correct, or would the storage handle the capacities any...
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Hello OsirisGuy,Yes the newer MD’s di support the larger drive sizes in them, but the PE2950 will not support them. The PE2950 will be able to see the new space that the MD presents to it as the...
View ArticleRe: HE: sled home not found, error during first sled init -> move to sensor
I tried this but unfortunatly no luck. I would like to know how can I bring robotic to home as there is some allignment issue. Robotic stands incorrectly infront of tape slot ( Stands in between 2...
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Hello ShashankQuest,What you can do is to power off the TL & wait about 1 minute and then power it back on & it should home itself. What you can also do is to remove the drives from the rear...
View ArticleRe: Help Needed expanding a MD1000
If you want to expand a raid 6 that is using SATA drives, you can only expand it with more SATA drives.However, if you have a mix of 1TB and 2TB drives in the raid 6, you can only use 1TB per disk...
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The MD3 series is a SAN. This is not affected by the server's storage support capabilities.You can look for an MD1-series (e.g. MD1000) and load this up with larger drives and connect it to a PERC6E in...
View ArticleHelp Resizing Partion
Hello All,I am working on expanding a partition on my SUSE Linux Server but having a problem doing so. Here is some background on the setup.- The drive is a "Virtual Drive" on a Dell Powervault MD3220-...
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Thanks for the response i tried all the above steps still no luck waiting for Dell engg to visit.
View ArticleMD3200i Raid Controller Host Port configuration failing
I'm trying to change the IP address of Raid controller module 0, port 0. Every time I try I get "Error 1007 - Could not communicate with the Raid controller module in slot 0 to complete this request.I...
View ArticleRe: MD3200i slow guest VM access
What I would recommend is to go through the link below which is a white paper that has all of the best practices for IP SANs and how to configure them. It will show you the best way to set up you...
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MD3000i appears to be only using 1 controller
We have been having some issues lately with disk performance in our VMware cluster. Our setup is as follows:3 Dell R610's running ESXi 5.12 Juniper gigabit switches with 3 VLANs (1 for management, 2...
View ArticleMD3000i firmware issue.
Hi, I've been working with an md3000i and I've been running into an odd issue when trying to update to the newest firmware revision. Everything seems to function perfectly on the controllers,...
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If MDSM cannot communicate with one of the controllers it will still let you pull up the unit via the other controller, but certain settings/commands will not work if they go to the controller that...
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How did you carve up your virtual disks? The MD3k series use a single controller as owner for a virtual disk and the other controller is only for failover for that virtual disk. This is why running...
View ArticleRe: PV 124t with BackupExec - TAflag[12] Unsupported Format
Backup Exec 2010 version 13.0Windows Server 2008 R2Using LTO Dell Ultrium 3 cartridges The log is huge @ 275k, is there a way to send it to you instead of posting it?
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