Hot spare does not take over when failed disk, virtual disk goes to fail state
Hi everyone,Need some help on my issue below.We have PowerVault MD3200 and MD1200 as extension. Disk used is Seagate 600GB SAS.Earlier, there was unreadable sector error on the system. From log, it...
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I have two MD3000i arrays that seem to be experiencing slot failures. The symptom starts as a disk showing impending failure in one specific slot. Normal replacement with a new disk works fine, but...
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When a hard drive fails we see the light flash amber on front of the unit but an email is received. The test email works just fine. Additionally when the bad drive is pulled and the new one put in you...
View ArticleMD34XX SNMP Setup
There are two options for setting up SNMP for the storage arrays. There are SNMP alert notifications originating from the Event Monitor, and SNMP alert notifications originating from the storage array...
View ArticleMD3000 Storage Array
We have an MD3000 storage array that did something very weird about a month ago. We have two servers attached to it via HBA adapters. The servers lost connectivity to the array and our servers...
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MD1200 on PowerEdge 2950 Using Perc6E
Okay so before i start, yes i have seen the tech spec saying that the md1200 needs a h800 to runHowever:can you run an MD1200 on a Perc6E using the following cable?
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 + Perc6E + MD1200
Okay so ive seen the tech spec that says you need a h800 to run an md1200however is it possible to run it on a perc6E using the following cable:www.amazon.com/.../ref=wms_ohs_product
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View Articlereplace Pool B with bigger drives on MD3220i?
Hello, we have an MD3200i with 12 500GB drives in Raid 5. We have bought 4 1TB drives because we want to increase our size. We have 2 Pools, each with 1/2 of the total space available. We do not need...
View ArticleReconfigure Error with PERC H800 & MD1000
Hello - I am fairly new to the DAS environment and have been playing around with it for several month. Most of the items I have come across I can get thorugh with a little reading (ok, sometimes more...
View ArticleIncorrect Product ID - MD3200i
Hello,I have a few MD3200i EMM's with the same problem. For some reason they are showing a product ID of MD36xxf instead of the correct MD32xxi.I know that these are 3200i EMM's because they have the...
View ArticleConnect new backup server to DR4100
Is there any problem with temporarily having 2 different backup media servers connected to the DR4100 we have been backing up to for a couple of years?I'm running BE 2014 on a 2008 server and am trying...
View ArticleDell TL 2000 with Symantic backup exe 14.2
HiI am adding Dell TL 2000 to smantic backup exe but I can not see the cariages/Media to Lable it.TL is connectivity with host through SAS cables. on host windows 2012 R2 is installed.I can see the...
View ArticlePhysical Disk Problem
I have PowerVault MD 3200 and I expanded it by PowerVault MD1200When I connect MD 1200 it doesn't show up on Storage Manager and I get error message in Event log says that"Physical physical disk has...
View ArticleMD3000i iSCSI PowerVault firmware failure on both controllers
Hello,in our company we have an MD3000i. Contained disks were configured in RAID6 and were exposing 2 separate LUNs used by 3 servers machines through iSCSI.After a power loss we were not able to see...
View ArticleUnable to configure MGMT port
I not sure whats going on and Support doesn't appear to know exactly what is going on either.I have a MD3820i, brand spanking new. I'm trying to configure the MGMT ports on it, but am unable to do so.I...
View ArticleRD1000 not mounting on CentOS 5
We have a server that is no longer being used but we must maintain access to the records on it for 7 years. It was running CentOS 5.6. It was last backed up in 2014 using the RD1000. The server had a...
View ArticlePowerVault 124T Medium Changer
Hi,I've an old PowerVault 124T tape library added to a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine, the drive is showing up ok in device manager, but the medium changer is not. Has anyone come across this issue...
View ArticlePowervault 124t SAS VMWare ESX
Hi everyone, I would like to connect my SAS PowerVault directly to the Vmware host 5.1.Will I be able to use it from a single windows VM ? I would like to setup Veeam and use the autoloader for...
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