Dell PowerVault MD 32/36 Series Storage Software

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Dell PowerVault MD 32/36 Series Storage Array and Expansion Enclosure
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Fixes & Enhancements

This release contains the following features:

- Consolidated support for both 60-disk 4U (dense) and 12/24-disk 2U MD Series storage arrays.
- Resolves a potential I/O path error between Fibre Channel chip and RAID Controller memory
- Resolves a potential I/O Path error when using VMware vSphere 5.X when VAAI hardware accelerated VMFS data movement is enabled for VM migration, VMware snapshots, and VM cloning.
- Resolves Incorrect Drawer number when assigning Hot spare

- New features for 60-disk 4U (dense) MD Series storage arrays are:
- Enhanced snapshot functionality based on point-in-time (PiT) images
- Asynchronous remote replication (iSCSI and FC-based)
- Thin provisioned virtual disks
- SSD cache configuration and SSD performance modeling
- Windows Server 2012 (Standard and Datacenter)
- Windows 8

- New features for 12/24-based 4U MD Series storage arrays are:
- Adaptive disk pooling
- Redesigned MD Storage Manager interface
- Automatic support daya collection across multiple arrays
- VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
- Enhanced snapshot functionality based on point-in-time (PiT) images
- Asynchronous remote replication (iSCSI and FC-based)
- Thin provisioned virtual disks
- SSD cache configuration and SSD performance modeling
- Windows Server 2012 (Standard and Datacenter)
- Windows 8
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Version

A01

Release date

08 Nov 2012

Download Type

DVD ISO Images

Category

Resource CD

Importance

Critical
Dell Technologies highly recommends applying this important update as soon as possible. The update contains critical bug fixes and changes to improve functionality, reliability, and stability of your Dell system. It may also include security fixes and other feature enhancements.
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File Format: A DVD .iso image - File 1
File Name: DELL_MDSS_Consolidated_RDVD_4_1_0_88.iso
File Size: 1.82 GB
This is a large file. Depending on your connection speed, it may take some time to download.
Format Description:
This file contains an ISO image to be used to create a DVDROM image. Download the file to a folder on your hard drive, and then create a DVD using your choice of DVD burning software.
To ensure the integrity of your download, please verify the checksum value.
MD5:
c1ddbddd90dd9618357d6063576642f2
SHA1:
0a7b19df7baa33750abb33d1ebe861b44ce52fba
SHA-256:
1de20422d41d1707364ae36876f0c0a9efceb6b9451a9b405feac158997a5a74

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This update is recommended for all PowerVault MD 32/36 storage arrays.
Novell SuSE Linux ES 11
Windows Server 2008 x64
Suse Linux ES 10
Windows Server 2012
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat® Ent Linux 5
Windows 7, 32-bit
Windows 7, 64-bit
Windows 8, 32-bit
Windows 8, 64-bit
Windows Vista, 32-bit
Windows Server 2008 x86
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Vista, 64-bit
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003 x64
MD3 Series Resource DVD Updates
- On the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted with the -noexec mount option. This option does not allow you to run any executables from the DVD. To fix this problem, you need to unmount the DVD, manually re-mount the DVD, and then run executables.

The command to unmount the DVD is:
# umount

The command to manually mount the DVD is:
# mount

- Operating System support for autorun varies. If the software does not automatically launch when the DVD is inserted, it must be manually invoked with one of the following commands in the root directory of the DVD:

Linux: ./autorun
Windows: md_launcher.exe

- On the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system, before you run the silent install command, make sure to run the following script from the Resource DVD to install prerequisite packages:

# md_prereq_install.sh

# linux_hostnameupdates.sh

On the SuSE Linux Enterprise operating system, before you run the silent install command, make sure to run the following script from the Resource DVD to install prerequisite packages.

# linux_hostnameupdates.sh

Reboot will be required

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