Add MD1000 legacy to a new 12G/13G PE
I have a Dell PV DL2000, and I want to upgrade the server, it will be used as a simple offsite backup. It currently has an MD1000 attached to it (30TB), and the hdds are only 2yrs old within the...
View ArticlePerc 6/i with LTFS?
We recently purchased an HP Ultrium 6250 internal LTO-6 drive to write our year end backups to using our Poweredge T310 (backup server) and everything seems to work great except that when I try to...
View ArticleHow to erase/scrub data on MD3000i
We have two SAN that I need to insure that all our private data is cleaned off them. What is the best/easiest way of doing this?I have access through the GUI via the management software/portThanks...
View ArticlePowerVault 114x DellT630
Hello,We have purchased a POWERVAULT 114X with one LTO-6 drive in it. I have a Dell T630 server on WIndows 2012R2 running. The 6 GBps SAS HBA is visible and installed. All seems well, except that I...
View ArticlePowervault MD1200 Disks Missing
Our Command experienced a planned power loss last night and one of the users in a remote building did not power off his Powervault MD1200 RAID array. Once his UPS expired, the RAID did a hard...
View ArticleFailed disk in MD3200i - Unreadable sectors detected
Hi,We have just had a disk fail in our MD3200i SAN, when we replaced the disk we got a subsequent error of Unreadable Sectors Detected. I have never seen this error before when replacing a disk. The...
View ArticlePowerVault NX200
I have a PowerVault NX200 which is license for Windows 2008 Storage, I want to know if I can use the same serial number off the server to upgrade it to Windows 2008 R2 or R2 Storage and if so how can I...
View ArticleCan I diagnose an MD1000 storage chassis without a PERC 5/E?
I have an MD1000 SAS chassis which we were hoping to use to expand our ZFS pool.The chassis is second-hand, and doesn't contain any drives. When powered on it will run normally for about 30 seconds...
View ArticleHow i can test the multipath on storage md 3400 ?
Hello everyone,I have 2 servers with a storage md3400 and 2 esxi on DELL R630. I configured the storage and the host group through the modular disk software. The connection between the storage and the...
View ArticleOffline/Unknown 20 MB disks after upgrading to Windows 2008 R2 - LUN 31 -...
I have an MD3200 SAS connected to two Poweredge R510 servers running Windows 2008.Before upgrading one of the servers, both servers "saw" (in Disk Management) three disks matching the three virtual...
View ArticleNX 400 usable capacity
Hi all!If I buy an NX400 with 4 drives, each drive is 3TB NLSAS, and I configure it with RAID 5, and CIFS or NFS how many usable TB do I get after file system creation???Is there a calculator or any...
View ArticleArray replication
I have md3800i 2no's controller. can some help me how to configure array replication.
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950-additional PERC card to connect to PowerVault 220S
Hi,I have one unit PowerEdge 2950 (Service Tag# <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy policy>) and one unit PowerVault 220S (Service Tag# <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed per privacy...
View ArticleOMSA v7.4 says firmware is outdated, it isn't
On a PowerVault NX300 NAS I've just upgraded the OpenManage Server Administrator software from version 6.5 to version 7.4.OMSA is now reporting the PERC H700 firmware is out of date. It claims the most...
View ArticleHow can I check the drives on a NX3100
Our backup software occasionally tells us that it can not read some data on the the virtual disks. the problem is that the error is not repeatable and when I run the Check Consistency from the OMSA is...
View ArticleMDI3000 powervault disk array
I am unable to access the controller 0 management port for ip addresses, can any body tell me solution to this problem, i am using MD3000i configuration utility software,
View ArticleMD3000 with MD1000 attached
I have an MD3000 with two MD1000's attached to it. One of the drives in the MD1000 failed and it automatically switched over to the hot-spare. I removed the failed disk and the unit saw the replacement...
View ArticleDell MD 3800F host connections using 16Gb FC
Hello, i have MD 3800F with 16Gb FC ports. i would like to check how many servers can be connected directly without SAN switch and if i can use the 8Gb HBA on the server side. ThanksMoe
View ArticlePowerVault 124T - Error Message - Flags[1-64]:0000000200000000 TA[31]-HardwareB
After powering up the device after a planned server room shutdown, the tape loader displays the following tape alerts. Rebooting the device does not clear the fault.Suggestions...
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