H700 & H500

Hello kamalan,

Which Isilon system do you have as you didn’t state that in your post? Is the H700 and H500 in the same host or are they in different hosts? What is the OS that is on the host?

Hi Sam,

Both are in two different locations with different host. I’m not sure about the OS. Thank you 

Hello kamalan,

Which Isilon system do you have as you didn’t state that in your post?

Dell EMC Isilon H500 & PowerScale Hybrid H700

Hello kamalan,

What is the OS that is running on the hosts that are connected to your Isilon and Powerscale systems?

I'm not sure about the version, One FS.  I've only access via serial port. Thank you 

Hello kamalan,

Which host are you using that is connected to your storage windows, vmware, unix, linux, etc?

Hi, it is running on windows. 

Hello kamalan,

What is your current Onefs version?

Hi, I believe 9.10++

Hello kamalan,

Reinitializing Isilon H500

To reinitialize an Isilon H500 node, it is recommended to smartfail and reformat each drive in the cluster.

Key Steps:

·       Smartfail each drive one at a time or one node at a time.

·       Reformat the drives after smartfailing.

Here is the link to a kb for repurposing a powerscale node. https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000020298/isilon-how-to-reset-and-add-repurposed-isilon-nodes-to-an-existing-cluster?lang=en