MD3200 Shrink Disks
Dear Support Members your help is appreciate,I have powervault MD3200 and it has only one virtual disk taking all the size 18TB, I must shrink to create MS cluster so can I shrink virtual disk...
View ArticleHow to configure multipath for DELL PowerVault TL2000
Hello everyone,I have a robotic DELL Powervault TL2000 configured with BE2014, but the problem is that the average flow is very low.The solution is to configure the Multipath but i have try muliple...
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Can not to configure Powervault MD3820 via MDSM v.6.0
Hi, I would like to know why after download MDSM and setup to manage with MD3820f,I can not to see MDSM in my computer but only have Modular Disk Configuration Utility.exehere is link as download a...
View ArticlePoweredge R430 and Powervault MD3420
Hello ,we have just bought servers R430 without a 12 GBPS SAS HBA external and a Powervault MD3420,What's in your opinion the correct way to connect themwhich cable do we need? Only solution for R430...
View ArticleIs it possible to directly attach a ML-6000 library to a M600 blade server?
My setup as follows:-ML-6000 with 2 IBM LTO4 drives (FC)M600 with LPe1105-M4 daughter card.M1000e chassis with 2 PT1016 FC passthu's.Current backup solution uses old 2950 with QLogic FC cards for which...
View ArticleMD3000i config import
Hello,I used a script to exported config from MD3000i. However, how can I import back by script or MDSM?Thanks!
View ArticlePE2950 Upgrade system backup
Hi all,I want to update my backup system by adding an additional external drive LTO4.Currently the system is composed of:Dell PowerEdge 2950Dual CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHzRAM: 8GBController...
View ArticlePowerVault LTO-5-140 compression ratio
Hi All!We have different compression ratio with same data set on diffrent tapes.The capacity is near full for tape.How we can look why this difference happens?
View ArticlePowerVault LTO-5-140 compression ratio
Hi All!We get different compression ratio with the same data set on different tapes. Size of data set is near full tape.How we can get inforamtion why this happens?Thanks a lot!
View Articlewho knows how to clear Dell PowerVault NX3610 logging file to free space. Thanks
There is warningi info about the used space of local file system partition /var/log on NAS controller 1 is high (100%) and the used space of local file system partition /var/log on NAS controller 0 is...
View ArticleDisk group MD3420
Hi,I have to upgrade a MD3420 with 9 HDD SAS 1TB, the system is used for only for simple VMWare VM (No Exchange, no SQL and no Filesrv).Regardless of Raid chosen, should put more mechanical (then hard...
View ArticleDR4100 CIFS access
Can't get into CIFS share on DR4100.I have OST and CIFS containers on a DR4100. I'm backing up using BE from a Windows 2008 R2 server and connecting to the cifs share from the same server. Yesterday, I...
View ArticleHost Group Question
HiI have a PV MD3420 connected to one PE R720 via SAS, I have created a Server 2012R2 Failover Cluster for my storage. I want to now add the second node to the cluster but have made an administrative...
View Articlenfs storage not responding
Hi,I am facing this frequent outage issue in storage where NFS clients can’t access exported folders for 20-30 minutes and then connect back again. Configuration:- 2 windows servers...
View ArticleHow to determine the number of logical libraries
We have a PV TL4000 with 4 half height drives. I hope expert here give me guide on how many logical libraries I should configure the TL4k.Hardware and software setup:TL4000 w 4 physical drives;each...
View ArticleMigrate data between to MD3200i
We are going to replace our MD3200i and are thinking of buying a MD3800i. We 100TB of data that we wont to move to the new storage platform.We are thinking of using the replication license to do this...
View ArticleWill LTO 7 will be the Last Product or there is another call for more LTO's...
I have seen that it took a long to bring LTO 7 after in unveiling LTO 6 in 2012, do you feel this to have a good move in LTO technology or its just a simple up-gradation in speed and transfer rate?
View ArticleDell Enterprise Hardware & Software Updates for April 18 - 22, 2016
Popular Downloads Dell Server E-Support Tool (DSET) 3.7Dell Support Live Image (SLI) 2.2OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 8.2OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.1.0Servers & StoragePERC...
View ArticleDell PowerVault TL2000 tape label issue
Hello everyone,I have a weird issue with the deviceIn inventory/magazine, for some slots, the tape is detected but the label is displayed as unknownIf the same tape is placed on another slot, its label...
View ArticleNX3100 internal RAID1 OS disk exchange
Hi all,We have this NX3100 + PV MD1200 configured as NFS server running Debian. OS is installed on 2x 2.5" 136GB SAS internal disks configured in RAID1. One of the OS disk is having media errors and we...
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