Hi,
we installed a PowerVault MD1200 (PERC H800) in PowerEdge R530. The controller is normally found but the error bellow is showed on startup. Is that any problem? How could we solve this problem?
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LSI EFI SAS Driver:
Unhealthy status reported by this UEFI driver without specific error message(s).
UEFI0116: One or more boot drivers have reported issue(s).
Check the Driver Health Menu in boot manager for details.
Dear,
I'm purchasing new 4 TB Seagate for my MD3260i, is it nesserary to be Dell Certified?
Here's the Disks specifications i'm buying:
529FG 3.5" ST4000NM0023 4TB 7.2K Seagate
6P85J 3.5" ST4000NM0063 4TB 7.2K Seagate
Hello,
We had a filed controller card on an MD3220, so we ordered a replacement. We received a new controller card from our Dell part rep and swapped it out. We can now see the card and it is showing as online, but it is giving us this SAS Port Failed error. All connections have been verified as seated properly. Any idea what could be causing this?
MD3600i - dual controller, 2 10Gbps iSCSI ports per controller, jumbo frames enabled on switch and array
2 MD1200's and 1 MD1220 both with dual EMM
3 RAID 10 virtual disks
2 RAID 6 virtual disks
out of warranty
VD's are mapped to hyper-v 6 node cluster and nothing has changed since this storage was implemented five years ago.
Ownership/preferred path has 3 VD's on controller 0 and 2 VD's on controller 1. Five months ago, we got the warning "virtual disk not on preferred path due to failover." The hyperv owner node was rebooted and the problem went away. The problem returned and rebooting the nodes didn't help so the recovery guru steps were followed. It appears that iscsi connections between the nodes (2 each), the two stacked switches, and the two MD3600i controllers are all linked solid with jumbo frames enabled throughout. There are two VLANS for the iSCSI networks. Cabling and switch ports have been changed.
Redistribute virtual disks and they go back to their preferred path on controller 1 but failover to controller 0 after exactly 10 minutes. At 5 minutes, there is an informational event "Virtual disk I/O shipping implicit transfer" then the failover at 10 minutes. If there is no activity on the VD's, they maintain their path on controller 1 indefinitely. Does this sound like the controller card needs to be replaced?
Hi guys.
I've got a problem with diskpool. Today we lost 6 physical disk, then 2 Virtual disk got status=Failed.
I tried a revive these disk and repair(restore) virtual disk,Diskpool, But to no avail.
help me plz to advice.
How to fix this problem?
thanks in advance
DELL-Sam L,
I've read previous posts on this forum from customers who have the iSCSI SAS Bridge for powervault TL2000/4000 and no longer have the password. I am in that situation as well. Previously you requested that customers send you a private message, which I did as well, but I have not heard back in a week.
If you would be so kind as to send me the password for challenge code C0EPJE98FQ7 I will appreciate it very much. We are currently stuck and unable to finish our migration.
Thanks!
I have about a 4 year old TL-4000 and LTO6 Drive 3 is getting very problematic, wanting cleaning a lot and generating a significant amount of errors and failed jobs. So bad in fact I have disabled the drive to maintain my sanity. I don't see any errors in the log though, only 78 hard write errors but a lot of soft write errors 34,000+
Also recently the library is "losing" labels, so a tape will suddenly read as LTO000008 in Backup Exec instead of what I had given it.
Lastly the library has crashed hard about 4 times over the past few months with this error: 00 > HE: Sdci microcode error
Any idea what that is?
The bios has been updated and drives as well to the latest. E.30 / 3.20e , G9P1
I have 3 Dell PowerEdge R820 servers running in duplex mode, directly attached to a Dell PowerVault MD3220 and MD1220 expansion enclosure. Each R820 has a Dell H200E SAS 6Gbps HBA dual port external controller so I can attach directly to the MD3220 and avoid using iSCSI.
Each R820 has Windows Server 2012 R2 installed and are part of a 3-node failover cluster running Hyper-V. The VMs are stored on separate CSV volumes on the MD3220.
I’m migrating drives from an existing MD3220 to a new MD3220 which has several Dell Premium Features enabled. Below is a summary of the new MD3220 and the SAS drives I have available for use in the array.
MD3220 Specifications:
RAID Controller Module in Enclosure 0, Slot 0
Firmware version: 08.20.24.60
NVSRAM version: N26X0-820890-008
Data Cache: 4GB
RAID Controller Module in Enclosure 0, Slot 1
Firmware version: 08.20.24.60
NVSRAM version: N26X0-820890-008
Data Cache: 4GB
MD3220 Premium Features (installed/enabled):
Additional Physical Disk Support
High-Performance Tier
SSD Cache
Available Physical Drives:
SAS SSD
6 x 200GB SLC SSD SAS Drive SANDISK LB206M (Dell PN: 6R5R8)
SAS HDD
24 x 900GB 10K SAS 2.5" 6Gbps HDD Seagate ST9900605SS Savvio 10k.5 SED (Dell PN: XRRVX) one additional drive for use in case of a drive failure.
3 x 300GB 15K SAS 2.5" 6Gbps HDD Seagate ST9300653SS (Dell PN: H8DVC)
1 x 300GB 15K SAS 2.5" 6Gbps HDD Toshiba MK3001GRRB (Dell PN: NWH7V)
I need some advice on setting up the new MD3220 to take full advantage of the SSD caching and high-performance tier features of this MD3220. Since I have so many 900GB HDDs, I’m thinking of creating one large disk group using all 24 as RAID-10 which would give me 10.8 TB. I have VMs of various sizes and was going to create virtual disks of different sizes and place several VMs into a virtual disk based upon the given VM. For example, create a single 2.25 TB virtual disk for exclusive use by an existing VM running SQL 2014. I’m sure this is not the best way to setup SQL Server 2014 in a virtual environment (I can change that later) but for now I need to get the new MD3220 up and running.
I have 22 Hyper-V VMs which are currently using cluster storage on the existing MD3220. Since I have to move the drives from my existing MD3220 to the new MD322 - destroying the array in the process - I'll copy all existing Hyper-V folders and corresponding structures in their entirety (Snapshots, Virtual Hard Disks, Virtual Machines) to local storage on two of the R820's.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - 2nd AD DS (Windows Server 2012 R2)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - SQL 2014
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - Oracle 11g
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - Oracle 12c
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - SQL 2008R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - SQL 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - TestServer01
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - TestServer02
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - Team Foundation Server 2015
Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - Application Services
Windows XP Professional (x86) - 3 client VM's
Windows 7 Professional (x86) - 2 client VM's
Windows 10 Enterprise (x64) - 7 client VM's
Questions:
Thank you very much for your help!
Hi!
I have a problem for remember password for TL2000 iscsci brige.
I have a challenge key.
We are using MD1400 and 1420 enclosures to test hard drives. The reason was to take advantage of the 12G speed. It looks like only SAS drives will be recognized by these systems. It makes some sense since SATA are only 6GB but wanted to see if possible to use SATA drives in these.
I am migrating to an MD3220 and MD1220 which has the SSD cache and high-performance tier feature keys installed and enabled. I have 6 x 200 GB SLC SSD SAS drives and 24 x 900GB SAS HDDs in the MD3220, MD1220.
When I create the SSD Cache, should I assign all 6 SSDs to the cache? For maximum performance is it best to create 1 large RAID-10 disk group then create smaller virtual disks, making sure “Use SSD cache” is enabled?
Thank you very much!
Hi,
I never used powervault before, I'm just to use a powervault TL 2000 that has been sitting in my office for a while.
There are bunch of tapes inside of it, I managed to power it and configure network, I can get to the web interface and everything seems to be fine.
Now, I don't understand how, or with what, I can manage the storage.
How do I transfer data to it?
Do I need to connect it directly to a server or I can access it through network?
Thanks, and sorry for being dumb :)
I have two dell servers and one dell MD3800i. I want to leverage 10Gbps storage controller ports and I want to connect them directly (without SAN switch).
Did anyone test it and if yes could please inform if it's working correctly?
Hello all,
I've recently inherited an old MD3000i powervault that has a couple issues which recently came up. I'm posting this question to the community first as it is the most vexing one for me.
This PowerVault has two RAID cards that have split at 2TB system into a pair of RAID 5 arrays that contain an independent virtual disk handled by their own individual RAID card. We have two 2003 servers attached to this SAN that use it as a host for multiple SQL 2005 databases in a Cluster setup between the two servers. One of the RAID cards' battery failed and will need replacement. Other issue is the other RAID has had one of its disks fail.
My question is two part:
Thank you in advance for any help!
Serial Tag is<Service tag removed>for Power Vault MD3000 and is showing two hard drive failures in the array. Can I just order two hard new drives and if so, which kinds can I order for this? Would a 3.5" SATA drive do and are these hot swappable?
Thanks!
I was sort of thrust into our office server setup. Boss has PowerEdge R710 Servers, and a PowerVault MD1000, and asked me to hook-up. But I read somewhere that MD1000 starts support with PowerEdge 840!? So I CANNOT hook-up the R710s to this power vault??
Does anyone know if this is a correct assumption??
Dear,
I have MD3260i , I have lock mode and have message with error below :
Code: 0E LF
Condition: Controller lockdown with limited use of SYMbol
so I can't open the configration and at the storage manager have error ( the RAID controller module in locked-down mode
I have a Dell TL2000 with a F092G iSCSI Bridge that I just installed. The iSCSI bridge was purchased used and attempts to access the management web page at the default 10.10.10.10 address have failed (changing my local IP to 10.10.10.11 per instructions, using a direct connection, etc). I tried using Wireshark to capture the traffic when it boots up but I don't see any traffic coming from the iSCSI card although the orange lights on the NIC's flash when plugged in.
I tried both network ports and I get the same result - just flashing orange lights and nothing meaningful in the captured traffic, no IP addresses, no response to pinging 10.10.10.10.
Is there a utility program I can use to find the IP address of the bridge? I heard someone mention that there's a program called LAN Scan that will get the bridge to respond and reveal it's IP address. Is there a place I can download it or can someone share it with me?
Thanks!
Hi everyone,
My Dell infra is 5 years old... and 2 months. Support is over and troubles are coming (disks failed in PowerVault SAN...).
Can i get some fresh support subscription ? Who should i contact ? (working in a french school)
Help me Obi-Sam-Kenobi, you're my only hope!
We have two brand new Dell branded/certified sas SSDs that show up happy and certified in our powerdge 730xds but when they go into the MD3200/MD1200 msdn is reporting them as incompatible/unsupported. I updated the firmware on one of them to d336 in the poweredge and put it back in the MD and still get the same issue.
Is it because there was an array disk in there previously? Is there something I can do to clear things out and get the MD to accept these drives which are explicitly listed on its compatibility matrix?
Thank you!
