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July 24th, 2020 12:00

Raid Controller on MD3600i unexpected shutdown.

Hi.

We have a Dell Storage MD3600i. One of the 2 RAID Controllers sudenly shutdown a couple of days ago.

Recovery Guru reported:

- Removed Battery Module.

- RAID Controller Module Removed.

And I have some questions:

1.- It's possible that the storage performance gets degraded due to this? Are not the controllers redundant?

2.- It's possible that this problem due to just a battery problem?

3.- In case I get a new RAID Controller? Do I have to pay special attention to Controller Firmware present

in both controllers?(The new one and the one that's alredy working)

4.- On page 266 of Dell PowerVault MD3600i and MD3620i Storage Arrays - Owner's Manual It's says:

If the array status LED is solid or blinking amber:
a In the AMW, select the Summary tab, and click Storage Array needs attention. Follow the listed procedures in the recovery guru(s) and wait for up to 5 minutes to check if the LED has turned blue. See "Recovery Guru" on page 246.
b If following the recovery guru procedures does not solve the problem,
complete the following procedure to further troubleshoot the array.
c Turn off the host server as appropriate.

And my question is: What I supposed to understand on point C? We have a lot of servers running VMs on this datastorage. The Host Servers running this VMs runs others VMs based on their local disks. So I need to shutdown the host server completely or just stoping the VMs is enough?

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

July 27th, 2020 09:00

Hello https://dell.to/308w8Ih,

  1. When a controller battery fails you will lose caching between controllers, which can affect performance. The controllers are redundant on your MD3600i.
  2. Battery issue can cause the controller to reboot. What is your current version of firmware that is running on your controllers?
  3. If you get a replacement controller that has a different firmware, when inserted into your MD3600i your firmware will be upgraded/ downgraded to match your current controller firmware.
  4. What that means is that any server that is accessing your MD3600i you will need to shutdown. If you don’t shut the host down, then when you reboot your MD3600i the host will not connect to your MD3600i.  You will need to reboot the host so that it can connect to your MD3600i again.

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