PS6500e Firmware 4.2 upgrade path and best practices
recently took over administration of a PS6500E 42 1TB drives, M1000 , PC6224 these units have sat unused for several years. ~5-8 I dont think it was ever used ! Time has been limited to undertake...
View ArticleError upgrading PS6100 to v7.1.12
I am trying to upgrade a PS6100 from v6.0.11 to v7.1.12. The device has 70-0400 Type 11 controllers. The upgrade fails with "ERROR:30.4.1:Array firmware update from version V6.0.11 to V7.1.12 failed....
View ArticleReplication Error
Hi,I have been happily replicating volumes from one PS4100 to our DR PS4100 in another building for the last few years.Recently i was asked to create a few more volumes and asked to replicate these...
View ArticleUsing local accounts on FS7600 for SMB Mounts
Hi,I have a Dell FS7600 that I am using for both NFS and SMB shares. the NFS part works just fine, but I cannot get the SMB mounts to work to any windows servers.I have not yet added this NAS to my...
View ArticlePS4210 - group IP
Hello, I have a two PS4210 array and one question about group IP. Now I describe my configuration. - group IP : 192.168.171.170ARRAY 1:- first CM : 192.168.171.171- second CM : 1921.68.171.172ARRAY...
View ArticleEquallogic PS6100x Change Storage Pool free space alert threshold
Hello, does anyone know how i can change the storage pool alert threshold value? It's currently set to 15% and i wish to lower it to 10%. I searched google and Dell docs etc but don't seem able to find...
View ArticlePS6100X Storage Pool capacity Alerts
Hello, I would like to change the Threshold of the capacity alerts for an EQUALLOGIC group but cannot seem to find any info. Can anyone help?CheersDarren
View ArticleReplication PS6100 x PS 4100
Friends,I need some guidance, I have a few volumes that need to replicate them from one storage PS6100 to another PS4100 but do not know which adopt strategy, have a virtual environment with vSphere...
View ArticleUNMAP for Windows volumes?
I know about the scsi unmap command for vmfs to reclaim space on an EQ LUN. Is there an equivalent for Windows data volumes connected via iscsi?
View Article2 Equallogic PS6100 storage pool, need to remove and update 1 member
I have 2 PS6100 in 1 storage pool. One of them is having some issues, and desperately needs to have the firmware updated(one is on 6.02, the other 7.1.5).So i want to remove the older one, and move all...
View ArticleGroup Discovery
If I have 3 PS6210 arrays in a group connected to an esxi 6 cluster via iscsi, do the vmnics learn all EQ eth ports during the initial discovery? I know the group IP is used for initial discovery, so...
View ArticlePS6110 Reset to factory defaults
HiI have 2 questions.1) We just did the reset to our PS6110 Dell Equalogic using a serial console to the active controller. Do I need to reset the other(standby) controller as well?2) Is it possible to...
View ArticleVSM - recreating replica schedule
HiWe use VSM 4.5.2 to create replicas of our VMware volumes to a remote DR site. VSM appliances are paired.We did a SRM failover and failback which went fine. 'DR' mode rather than 'Planned...
View ArticleDell Equallogic Self Encrypting drives
I've searched all the documentation I can find but cannot locate anything to tell me if the SEDs in the 6210XV are AES-256 or AES-128. Can anyone tell me ?
View ArticleVSM - Multiple vCenters
Where we have a separate management cluster and a resource cluster (each with its own vCenter), how do we deploy VSM? It looks like you can't you register one VSM to two vcenters, so do we deploy two...
View ArticleI need to change the configured IPs for member and group manager
Hi, I started using PS demo tool. I configured IPs for member and group manager. I want to change the old IPs which I have assigned.But I don't know the command/procedure to modify those IPs. Please...
View ArticleNano Support for EqualLogic?
Is there going to be support for Windows Server 2016 Nano?
View ArticleEquallogic ps6110xv troubleshooting
Hello Sorry for my English. Could you help with the search service tag of equallogic ps6110xv. The equipment we had in the amount of 4 pieces. But a couple of years ago, it was written off, the...
View ArticleQuestion about a Group with incorrect Default Gateway
Good morning,My storage group (pair PS6210X) are unable to integrate with our AD (windows 2012 R2). I realized that my predecessor set these guys up with an old gateway ip address. Will changing this...
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