Individual Disk Degraded Path path on MD3000
The other day my MD3000 came up with this error as well as Degraded Physical Disk Channel. Looking at the event log the reason is it reached a certain threshold for errors. I looked and over about 30...
View ArticleNX3230 or 730XD thoughts
is an NX3230 just an 730XD with Storage Server 2016 Pre installed?Reason for asking is that im looking to replace an old Dell NAS and on the pricing i have received the NX is more expensive but does...
View ArticleMoving disks from MD1000 to another MD1000
Hi,If I physically move all disks from an MD1000 Enclosure to another identical MD1000 Enclosure (obviously keeping the same sequence), will my PERC 6/E controller recognize the virtual disks and...
View ArticleNX400 Powervault OS reinstall
Hello,Last week, I suffered a major casualty on my storage server that destroyed a hard drive and rendered the server useless, I received a new hard and media from DELL and I'm currently trying to...
View ArticleDell Storage NX3230: iSCSI MAC listed from 6 NIC cards
HiI know that each NIC card for Dell Storage NX3230 has 2 MAC addresses listed, one for the Ethernet and one for iSCSI. Currently our network switch has port security turned on and it will cause port...
View ArticleMD3200i Raid Battery
One of the raid batteries in our MD3200i has failed.I tried ordering a replacement through our Dell sales rep but they said replacements aren't available.Can anyone tell me where I can get one?
View ArticleError when configuring Managment IP´s MD3800i
Hello everyone,I am configuring an MD3800i storage, from my computer I connect to the administration port and through the Modular Disk Configuration Utility, with the default IPs 192.168.129.101 and...
View ArticleTL-2000 multiple drive failures
I have a TL-2000 with dual LTO5 iSCSI drives. In June we began getting CRC errors on jobs written to Drive 2. Cleaning the drive did not help. We disabled the drive, forcing all jobs to use Drive 1....
View Article3220i iscsi hyper-v cluster
I have a PowerVault 3220i with three volumes - two for HyperV and one for ESXi. If it is configured for a single host to access how would I confirm that? Can it be changed to multiple host access?I...
View ArticleDell PowerVault MD3600i FW upgrade procedure
Hello Community members,I am new to Dell storage and never did any of the Dell storage firmware upgrade, mostly worked on HPE 3PAR, EVA and MSA's so please kindly can some one list the steps in order...
View ArticleGetting unreadable sectors detected
Had drive in slot 7 fail when the box tried to use the hot spare it was also bad so it went into degraded modethere are also 2 drives in impending failurefirst thing I did was replace the drive in slot...
View ArticleDell MD3000i Active/Active
Hey guys,I have a PowerVault 3000i storage array and I'm setting up iSCSI MPIO. I''m pulling my hair out why I'm seeing in VMware ESXi 6.5 that the MPIO is showing up as Active/Passive instead of...
View ArticleMD 14000 query
Hi There,So work are buying a MD1400 but from what I gather its a JBOD, so it would need connecting to an external SAS RAID Controller? Or does it have an inbuilt RAID controller for configuring the...
View ArticleConnect NX3230 with HP Tape Drive
Hi,Is it possible to connect DELL NX3230 with HP Tape drive ( 1/8 HP tape Auto loader HP LTO-5 ulthrium 3000 SAS) ?If yes, then what is the type of SAS HBA and cable that needs to be used on the NX3230 ?
View ArticleMD3000i Controller Issues - Non Optimal Array
Recently my duel controller MD3000i become non-optional, what seems to be to a battery issue in the controller in Slot 1. I took the controller offline, pulled the controller and replaced the battery....
View Articleerror 6 in power volt 114t
I already did all that, but nothing happened. Do yoy have other alternatives ?
View ArticleTL-4000 Cleaning Tape Woes
I'm having issues with replacing the cleaning tape. As many already know here, dell ships their branded cleaning tapes with the CLNU00L1 label.I've already tried to export the tape, inventory and...
View ArticleReplacing disk - Status: incompatible - Unable to upgrade firmware
HiGot a MD3200i. A disk reported as failed so I purchased an identical disk (same Product ID ST3600057SS). However the new disk reports now Status IncompatibleCause: UnsupportedMode: IncompatibleI...
View ArticlePV124T On Board Management
Also unable to log onto the PV124T web portal. Logging number is **33522**
View ArticleSlow performance of MD3420?
Hi all,We recently bought an R730+MD3420+Md1220. The MD3420 connects to R730 through an 12GB HBA. All disks in MD3420+MD1220 formed a large RAID10 virtual disk, running RedHat Enterprise Linux 7....
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