PS6100 battery replacement
Hi Support,I would ask questions about Equallogic PS6100XV:- the battery is a single part number that can be purchase or is "embedded" in the controller and so a controller replacement is needed in...
View ArticleAdd more storage to MD3400
We have a MD3400 with 4 disks and now we want to add 8 more similar disks. We have esxi vms residing this storage. Can we add disks without taking down the esxi hosts, expanding the volume on the fly?
View ArticleMD3000i Controller failure
Hi Everyone and thanks for any response,Relative newbie here undergoing trial by fire learning.We have an MD3000i array connected to two R610 host machines. Windows 2008r2 cluster hosting our...
View ArticleLT06 native capacity is NOT being achieved on Dell tape drive.
Only getting 1.5 TB on a 2.27 native capacity LT06I'm running the following configuraton:BackupExec 2015 fully patched.Duplicating to the LT06 tape driveCurrent firmware on tape driveNew tapes behave...
View ArticleReinstall the operating system of a PowerVault NX3200
How can I reinstall the operating system of a PowerVault NX3200?
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Adding tapes to DR4100 Virtual Tape Library with DPM 2012R2
Hi, I've been using a Dell DR4100 for iscsi VTL with DPM 2012 R2. I followed the whitepaper "Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as a VTL Backup Target on Microsoft® Data Protection Manager" here to...
View ArticleMD Storage Manager Won't Install
Hi,I've reinstalled my PC (Windows 10) and I'm trying to reinstall MD Storage Manager. I've downloaded the latest resource CD 6.5.0.1. I've been unable to get this to install. It gets stuck at...
View ArticleMD3600 premium features
I have a MD3620F that does not have a current support agreement. I went round and round with Dell about pricing information on premium features of this array. Different sales departments told me to...
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PVT-132T and ATCServer r16.5 Build 7106 - Big Problems
All 23 slots are reporting empty (including the cleaning tape slot 23). Tapes are in the unit. Problem started when exporting a tape it worked as expected. Another tape was sitting behind that tape....
View ArticleThis Week's 5-Star Enterprise Support Articles
Here are this week's top-rated support articles based on accuracy, usefulness, & ease of understanding:Export of SupportAssist Collection (previously TSR) and RAID controller log via iDRAC 7 and...
View ArticleRAID/Array Recovery with replacement hardware (md3200i -> md3800i)
Hello,I've been searching for the past couple of days for an answer to this with no luck, so if there is information on this somewhere already, my appologies.Anyway, Our md3200i recently broke (both...
View ArticleSolid amber on MD3000
I've got an MD3000 with dual controllers attached with two SAS cables to a single HBA5 card (dual ports). It's been running fine for a number of years. I have out-of-band management and can currently...
View ArticleUpgrading RAM Dell NX3230
Hi Guys,I need to re-provision this NX3230 as a server. Can I install Windows Server 2012 R2 and upgrade the ram to 64GB RAM. Is the limitation of RAM BIOS based or is it just arbitrary?Thank you,Jay
View ArticleData safety concerns with the "Replace Member Disk" task of a PowerVault MD1200
Hello Everyone,I have a PowerVault MD1200 and I want to replace one of its hard drives (which, according to the OMSA, it is predicted to fail). I have already bought from Dell a new replacement...
View ArticleMD3xxx - Access Virtual Disk mapped to each Host?
As we have just received our first Powervault MD38xxi, I am now playing around with it to get myself familiar with this box.The intention is to use this storage as backup-destination for various...
View ArticleMD3620i 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...
View ArticleThis Week's 5-Star Enterprise Support Articles
Here are this week's top-rated support articles based on accuracy, usefulness, & ease of understanding:How to install and configure a VNC server on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6Windows Server:...
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 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 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...
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