Equalogic Box PS4100
I have equalogic box ps 4100 it show error message Cache to module power failure what to do as these SAN BOX Is under production which runs on 24/7
View ArticleFirmwares question
We are still on v7 FW. The arrays only have 18 more months until EOL. I see no reason to update to v8 or v9, as the new features add no value. Its been a while since there were any v7 updates, so I...
View Articleequallogic ps6000 serial setup
i'm new and i have a ps6000 , i dont know how support works but i think i havent it . i cant interact with the ps6000 storage using the serial port and putty. i tried to connecting on it using the act...
View ArticleiSCSI on Shared Network
Hello,We have a PS 6610e and 5 HP DL 380 servers running VMware 6. I've been tasked with setting up the storage to the hosts and found that we do not have any dedicated switches to use for a SAN and...
View ArticleMove volume between groups
We're currently running two groups of EqualLogics (let's call the groups A and B for simplicity), with a PS4100 and four PS6100's in each. When we started, it made sense to have half our live volumes...
View ArticleRemoving an offline group member by myself
Is it possible..? I haven't upgraded FW yet to see if the option opens up.. But when I try to remove from GUI it says I need to call support, running member delete in CLI gives me this:ST-EQ> member...
View ArticleFirmware update planning
What happens if an update fails while running Dell Storage Update Mgr to update a series? Does it roll back to the previous firmware on the failed controller and then stop?I'm running fw 8.1.4 on 3...
View ArticleError in the Windows Application log + dell Equalogics
Hello SupportI have some errors that are pointing in my Server Application log :CHAP is not supported for MPIO sessions by adapter at IP. Please add an access control record for target specifying the...
View ArticleVolume Free Space Question
Hello,I have one standard 70G volume (not Thin Provisioning) with only has 300MB free space left. Will it impact the performance with this little free space left or cause volume offline if volume...
View ArticleBind Volumes to Member (and a performance question)
Hi,two weeks ago a battery in one of the two members in our PS6100 group went bad and we were told by the dell support to swap out the whole controller (seems odd to me but this is not the point of...
View ArticleEnable Thin Provisioning
I'm currently running ESXi 5.5 with two data stores on thick provisioned eqallogic volumes with firmware 8.1.8. After my latest firmware upgrade the alerts for low pool space have started to tell me...
View ArticlePacket Errors
Hi,One of my member PS6210 with firmware v.7.1.5 shows large number of packet errors message. Eth0 shows 1,208,030 errors and Eth1 shows 43,312. Do I need to concern about this and how can I...
View ArticleBattery failed on PS6100 controller
Hi,I have a 'battery failed' error in the secondary controller of a PS6100 that's out of warranty. In the event log you can see a more detailed error 'C2F power module voltage is too high'. Does...
View ArticleHard drive requirements
Hello!Is there an indication in the official documentation for storage systems of the need to use only certain hard disks?The hard disk has failed and it is necessary to justify the purchase of a new...
View Articlelarge receive offload, what is current recommendation?
Like the subject says, what is the current recommendation for large receive offload? Enabled or disabled?Per TR1091 it seems the recommendation to use LRO was removed in the last update and there's no...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 R2 CSV Free Space
Hi AllI have two nodes for EQL 6210XS and there are bind a name "EQL Pool". Total capacity almost 36TB.Now when i create a volume 8TB for the Hyper-v cluster shared volume and create some VM in CSV...
View ArticleSAN HQ 3.2.0/1 Self Signed Certificate
Our security audit detected that SAN HQ was running some type of web interface on port 443/https. I tracked the culprit down to WebServiceIntegration.dll.config which is located at C:\Program...
View ArticlePS4100XV RAID5 to RAID10
HiI have a PS4100XV with RAID5 configuration and need to format it again to RAID10Is there a way to do this without loosing current configuration?M.ThanksTasos.
View ArticlePS6010XV Hard disk upgrade
We have old PS6010XV out of support with- 16 x 15k 600GB SAS Hard disk- 2 x 70-0300 (type 10) Controllerswe use it for testing at the lab and we need to increase its capacity so i am asking if we...
View ArticlePS6510 sfp swap
Does PS6510 controller support sfp swap on the controller? We do get some CRC error on the network port where one of the interface connects to. We did try to swap cable, sfp on switch port and...
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