Need to change the Back panel of PV MD3000

I'm not sure I understand what you mean or what you want to do?

There isn't really anything you can 'change' on the backpanel on an MD3000.

Do you mean the midplane, this sits between the disks and the storage contollers and psu's. This is normally an engineer replaced item but if it out of warranty and you're going to buy the part only. Then it's not that difficult.

Dev Mgr, thanks for reply.

change means dell suggest me to replace the backpanel. If i change the backpanel should all the configuration/data in hdd wiped out, or it will be still stored in NVram/HDD.

My main concern is that why this PV md3000 storage box taking longtime to login. I am using MDSM by SAS connectivity.

Another thing is that for "Dev Mgr" i have sent you friend request,will you accept it?

Regards,

Rajib

The raid configuration is stored on the driver, so replacing the midplane shouldn't cause you to lose any configuration.

However, I also wouldn't think that replacing the midplane would resolve an issue with a slow login (I assume you mean that the iSCSI connections take a while to establish). This sounds more like an iSCSI network configuration issue (e.g. didn't enable portfast on the edge ports).

As for the friends request; this is a message board to me. I don't do 'friends' on a message board.

Thanks for your advice. will I attach here MD3000 log file to where is the problem for the slow log-in. after that can you suggest me what to do?

Rajib

The connection is SAS type, direct connection with the host server (win2k8) to storage md3000.

There is 1 pair of server+storage running win2k8 mailbox cluster. The 1st mailbox storage is OK but problem(slow login) in the 2nd mailbox storage.

Regards,

Rajib

With a sas connection the sessions don't really login do they?

Did you attach the log?

As per my finding there is only SAS connection available server to storage now, no network connection there.

I will attach the log a bit later.

Rajib