How to format the new Hard Disks inserted on MD31200i

Hello Guys,

My Company purchased five (5) new Hard Disks to install on NAS Storage Power Vault MD3200i.

I did the procedures (Inserted the Disks, Setup the RAID, Created Disks Groups, Created the Virtual Disks) up to know it´s OK.

I have a NAS controller PowerVault NX3500 working together with NAS MD3200i.

My Question:

I trying access the Volumes that was created in Power Vault MD3200i, but I think that is necessary formatted the new volumes first.

When I check in the PowerVault NX3500 the volume appear with not formatted.

How to initialize the New Disks to use in the PowerVault NX3500 controller ?

I read many Dell documentation and I didn´t find any information about that.

If someone can help me..

Thanks

Responses(2)

DELL-Kenny K

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April 30th, 2013 13:00

Grande_Bart,

When configuring a host to communicate with the iSCSI array it is important to have the iSCSI traffic to be on its own subnet and the NIC on the host is part of that same subnet. Here is a link for the deployment guide on the MD3200I array.

ftp.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200i_Deployment%20Guide_en-us.pdf

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Grande_Bart

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May 1st, 2013 13:00

Hi Kenny !

I couldn't open the ftp, can you send again?

I my case I would like to connect the storage by CIFS because I will connect windows to use \\NX3500\data.