MD3620i slow performance with 2012 R2 Hyper-V 2-node Cluster
Hi,We have the following set up:1x DR4100 (2x 10GbE Domain Team) - provides virtual tape library to Microsoft DPM 2016 (virtual guest)2x R730:2x 300GB system disk in RAID-14x 10GbE QLogic BCM57810 (2x...
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View Articlemd3800i - serial connection
Hello,Can anyone inform me as to what type of interface the md3800i uses for the serial connection? i mean, it uses mini-USB instead of the special pined wiring of the older models.Ie: Would an FTDI...
View ArticleCan't Connect 4th Drive keeps logging off
HiI originally purchased a Dell TL4000 with 3 HH5 Fiber Channel Drives and want to add a fourth Drive to be fully efficient with my backups. I installed the Drive in the 4th bay, after it connects to...
View ArticleMD3400 SAS
Hi,We recently setup our MD3400.This is Direct attached storage setup using 2 LSI 12Gb SAS 9300-8e HBA, Dual Port cards and 4 12Gb HD-Mini to HD-Mini SAS Cable, 0.5M (470-AATS) cables attached too 2...
View ArticleMD3200i iscsi initiator issue
I had to replace one of the controller batteries and upon rebooting everything seemed fine. VMware able to see everything all vm's back online but i am unable to connect to to any LUNs on windows with...
View ArticleSAS Port Degraded on Dell Powervault MD3620F
Hi We have Dell Powervault MD3620F storage with two controllers. we replaced storage controller with new one. In the MD storage manager of recovery summary show "SAS Port Degraded"Please, help me.
View ArticleI cannot connect other servers to the virtual disk on dell powervault MD32xx...
I am to take over an already setup dell powervault MD32xx storage server. It is connected to two servers through miniSAS cable but only one server can see it. modular disk storage manager software is...
View ArticleMD3200i Dual Controler: 1rst RAID controler displayed in MDSM as REMOVED,...
hello,I have a powervault PowerVault MD3200i with dual RAID controler. It was bought 5 or 6 years ago, so no more under warranty.Several weeks ago, for an electric powersupply maintenance in my...
View ArticleMD 3620i Disk goes offline but no indication of issue in Storage Manager
Hi I have an issue with my MD3620i that I hope someone has seen before. The issue is it looks like one of the slots becomes unresponsive in my raid group. Storage manager says everything is fine.How...
View ArticleNX3100 Failed Internal Drive RAID 1 PERC H700 - Proper replacement procedure?
We have an NX3100 with a PERC H700 Controller that has a Virtual Disk on RAID-1 with a Failed Disk. The failed drive is an internal hard drive and would need to be replaced by powering off the server....
View ArticleFrom Autonegotiation ethernet speed to 100 half
Good Morning,The other day we happened to something very strange, we have a cabin dell MD3200 with two ethernet ports configured in duplex mode and automatic negotiation speed. Two days ago, we started...
View ArticleReinstalling NAS OS on Powervault NX400
Hello,I'm using OS Reinstall media on a Powervault NX400 with up to date firmware. It's identified the RAID, created the volume and formatted it fine. Now it's been at the "LANDING OPERATING SYSTEM"...
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View ArticleMD3200i replacement controller
I had a controller fail, so I replaced it with a spare. MDSM still shows the old controller, and doesn't recognize the new one. Is there any way to kick start this? I've asked MDSM to recheck, but it...
View ArticleMPIO and MD3420
The goal is to use (2) R630's with Server 2016 cluster and use a MD3420 as the CSV.I'm at the beginning stage. Didn't create a cluster yet. Just trying to connect the 630's to the storage. Both the...
View Articledrive issue
HI,We having a problem with one of our Powerdge R710. Today server has lost its E drive, rebooted the server still not back. did run Dell server manager and it shows no defect drive, and it only shows...
View ArticleMD3000i Management Interface unreachable
Hello All,We are having a MD3000i Stoarge and currently we are facing an issue as the management network is not reachable.We have tried direction connection to MD3000i from a laptop and still we cant...
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OMSA 8.4 Reports Failed disk on MD3400
Hello,We have the following configuration 2 ESXi R730 with 12 GB SAS cards connected to MD over SAS cables + 1 Windows Host R730xd with 12 GB SAS connected to the MD. MDSM is installed on Windows Host...
View ArticleMD3000i - Controller issues
Over the last week we have been having issues with our MD3000i. Its currently being used with vsphere 4 and 2 attached hosts. The hosts become unreachable for about 2 minutes then recover. The...
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