Hiho dear DELL community!

I'm currently trying to bring up a DELL/EMC AX150i storage for a testing environment. This storage was in production for about 2 years an then unused till now. Because I'm not familiar with this storage I've started to discover the manuals and FAQs. But after 1 day of testing I still can't figure out the reason for the serius behaviour.

Lets start:

The storage and the UPS (APC Smart-UPS 740) are connected as it's described in the manual and at the label on the storage itself. The UPS doesn't have any failures and the storage seems to boot up correctly. Currently Managment Port A and B are connected to a switch and also a Management to access the management ports. The SPAs are not connected to any device at the moment.

I've uninitialized the storage and started the discovery process via the initialization utility. After a minute the storage was found and I've begun with the initialization:

SPA Management: 10.10.1.1/24

SPB Management: 10.10.2.2/24

Default-Gateway: 0.0.0.0 (don't know what else to enter here)

SPA 0: 10.205.1.1/24 DC

SPA 1: 10.205.2.2/24 DC

SPB 0: 10.205.3.3/24 DC

SPB 1: 10.205.4.4/24 DC

Well, after I acknowledged these settings the storage started the reboot process as described in the manual.

 

After the sorage was up I brought the management Laptop into the same logical network like SPA Management and logged in. In a first step i deleted all old virtual disks. The next step was to delete the old inactive HBA entries of the previous hosts. But what ever I try, the "delete inactive HBA" procedure always finish with a success message but the HBAs (and hosts) are still present.

The next problem: When I try to access SPB Managment (after change the management Laptops network setting to match this logical network) it doesn't found a website. Not even a ping is successful.

 

Now it's your turn. :/

MT