Dell PowerVault MD1000 hardware compatibilities
Hello,I have a Dell PowerVault MD1000 with PERC 5/E Sas controller. I Want to know a list of DELL Poweredge server able to connect with it.Can i connect with a DELL Poweredge R720 or newer server?Many...
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Popular DownloadsOpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 8.3OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.2Support Live Image (SLI) 2.2SupportAssist 1.0Servers & StoragePERC H730/H730P/H830/FD33xS/FD33xD...
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Dell PowerVault MD3860f Storage Array in Lockdown Mode
Hello,Our office has a new MD3860f with 20 1.2TB drives. I had updated firmware and NVSRAM to the newest version. We had those 20 drives in RAID 10 mode. This week we got other 60 4TB drives, so I took...
View ArticleTL2000 Upgrade LTO-4 to LTO-6
Hello,I'm having issues upgrading the tape drive in our Powervault TL 2000. It is connected to a Windows Server 2012 R2 server via a SAS switch.While connected with the LTO-4 tape drive installed,...
View ArticleHow to perform a graceful shutdown of MD3220
We run an MD3220 along with an expansion shelf . The expansion shelf is a model MD1220. We have a planned power outage for our building coming up soon. We have no generators onsite. So, I need to...
View ArticleMissing Virtual Drives after RAID card failure
I lost all connection to the MD3000 after the RAID card produced a PCI-e error. I gracefully shut down the server and took the RAID card and the PCI-E riser card out of my DELL2950 server and cleaned...
View Articlemd3220 bricked after updating firmware
I have Dell MD3220 that I was trying to update the firmware before putting it back into service.The bridge firmware update worked, the I tried to update the firmware to the current version it failed...
View ArticleAdding a RAID Module to a MD3200i
I have a MD3200i running firmware version 07.84.53.60 on the RAID module. This MD3200i has always only had one controller. Everything has been running fine but I want to add a second module to this...
View ArticlePowerVault TL2000 HE: drive logged out Code: FB 01, Exception F1 01 - Error...
Hi,I'm having issues with the drive of our PowerVault TL2000.A job initially failed with "Inventory lost - destination probably full ... Code: 8A 4B". Through the web interface, I was able to move the...
View ArticleReplacing MD3200i Controller
Hi All,I had a controller fail in one of our MD3200i yesterday. This is no problem, we have spare hardware available for these circumstances.I'm aware that when you insert a new/replacement...
View ArticlePowervault NX3100 restore image or media
Hello,I have a Powervault NX3100 with a COA for Storage Server 2008.Where can I find/how can I get the files to restore to original on new storage?Thank you,Mike
View ArticlePowervault Modular Disk Storage Manager: Almost all menu items grayed out
We have a MD3200i connected using iSCSI with 2 controllers. On occasion we will get a warning stating the Virtual Disk is not on the preferred path. Over the years this happens 2 or 3 times a year...
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Recurring problems with long-running backup jobs TL2000
We have several TL2000 tape loaders at remote sites used for backup. Periodically the long-running jobs will somewhat consistently fail with an E00084ED error in backup exec, indicating a communication...
View ArticleSeagate 12Gbps Drives in an MD1200
For reasons too embarrassing and frustrating to blather about, I am the proud owner of a Dell MD1200 enclosure and 12 ST4000NM0014 4TB Seagate drives (short story: I thought they were ST4000NM0023's,...
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View ArticleDell Enterprise Hardware & Software Updates, May 1-5
Popular DownloadsOpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 8.5OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.2Support Live Image (SLI) 2.2SupportAssist Enterprise 1.0Servers & Storage Adaptec PMC8805 SAS controller...
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View ArticleDell MD3260
Hello, We have a Dell MD 3260 with two enclosures. Originally 60 4TB disks in the first and 35 4TB Disks in the second. Recently 12 4TB disks have been added to the second enclosure. A RAID volume...
View ArticleMD3200i with locked down controller
HI, we have dual controller system with md3200i and one enclosure…Soon I find in MDSM that one of controllers is missed or removed, just empty space in manager, but controller is in storage system, and...
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