This 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 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 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 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...
View ArticleMD3200i iscsi initiator issue
I had to replace one of the controller batteries and upon rebooting everything seemed fine. VMware able to see everything all vm's back online but i am unable to connect to to any LUNs on windows with...
View ArticleSAS Port Degraded on Dell Powervault MD3620F
Hi We have Dell Powervault MD3620F storage with two controllers. we replaced storage controller with new one. In the MD storage manager of recovery summary show "SAS Port Degraded"Please, help me.
View ArticleI cannot connect other servers to the virtual disk on dell powervault MD32xx...
I am to take over an already setup dell powervault MD32xx storage server. It is connected to two servers through miniSAS cable but only one server can see it. modular disk storage manager software is...
View ArticleMD3200i Dual Controler: 1rst RAID controler displayed in MDSM as REMOVED,...
hello,I have a powervault PowerVault MD3200i with dual RAID controler. It was bought 5 or 6 years ago, so no more under warranty.Several weeks ago, for an electric powersupply maintenance in my...
View ArticleMD 3620i Disk goes offline but no indication of issue in Storage Manager
Hi I have an issue with my MD3620i that I hope someone has seen before. The issue is it looks like one of the slots becomes unresponsive in my raid group. Storage manager says everything is fine.How...
View ArticleNX3100 Failed Internal Drive RAID 1 PERC H700 - Proper replacement procedure?
We have an NX3100 with a PERC H700 Controller that has a Virtual Disk on RAID-1 with a Failed Disk. The failed drive is an internal hard drive and would need to be replaced by powering off the server....
View ArticleFrom Autonegotiation ethernet speed to 100 half
Good Morning,The other day we happened to something very strange, we have a cabin dell MD3200 with two ethernet ports configured in duplex mode and automatic negotiation speed. Two days ago, we started...
View ArticleReinstalling NAS OS on Powervault NX400
Hello,I'm using OS Reinstall media on a Powervault NX400 with up to date firmware. It's identified the RAID, created the volume and formatted it fine. Now it's been at the "LANDING OPERATING SYSTEM"...
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:Booting into the BIOS, Lifecycle Controller, or Boot Manager on PowerEdge serversHow to run...
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