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Hi there, The same question was asked almost three years ago, so I'm just checking if storage container-level snapshot, immutable snapshot, and restore features are available in recent versions (3.5 and 3.6). If not, is there any roadmap for implementing this functionality? Thanks,

Hello, Trying to configure our Compellent to send alerts for volume usage. I have thresholds set with the proper percentages and I have the user preferences setting for "threshold alerts" checked. Email is configured and sends fine. I get nightly reports and some email exception alerts so I know tha

We'll be deploying a ME4 storage array and a pair of S4048-ON (VLT) switches. The switches will be serving double duty - SAN iSCSI fabric, LAN traffic for clustered servers. Should I disable spanning-tree on the iSCSI ports or enable portfast instead?

Hello everyone! I work in a networking company, and there are CX3-40C and CX3-40F in our customer's datacenter that we should monitor every month. Until October 2023, we were able to monitor them using a PC in the datacenter that is setup and connected to both storages. However, the connection disr

Is there a way to check a hard drives firmware from CLI? for example... #> shellaccess developer #> disk show #> disk get 1        <<<< this shows some useful information but i cant find firmware anywhere I know i can see firmware from the web gui. Any help

Hi all, I am trying to configure a MD3820i with some SSD SATA drives 9Y3HD but they are apperaing with status "omitted". What that means? It only supports SSD SAS? Thank you in advance

Hi - I have two identical PS6210E EqualLogic units (drives/firmware same). They are both degraded, and I would like to decommission one of them in order to use the known working drives in the second unit (replacing its failed drives). Is there a proper drive uninstall procedure that I must use in or

TLDR - The docs show cabling the controllers in a way that isolates each subnet to a switch. Why? I thought it would be ideal to have a path through each switch to both controllers via both subnets. Obligatory "I'm not a storage guy" or "Network guy" for that matter. We're trying to figure out the

hi i have a decommissioned Equallogic PS4100 how ever no one knows the pass. i woud like to use it again but. after reading some discussions im a bit lost. i do have a serial cable

I couldnt find documentation about port bonding except port 0 and 1 on embedded 4 ports card but this is what i dont want to use for block traffic I have Dell powerstore t and would like to use only IO module for block traffic The question is Can ports on IO module be bonded my assumption is that th

hello everyone , what is the major differences between emc 5084 storage array and emc 484 storage expansion enclosure , and can i use only the expansion enclosure emc 484 only ?

We bought used PS6110 and wiped the memory. Im connected via CLI and can login with group admin running setup Im unable to connect ETH0 to any port anywhere.               Group Manager Setup Utility  It appears that setup was run previously, but it did not

Is anyone here aware of any Dell recommended settings for decreasing the amount of time Windows Server takes to failover to another available path? I have come across a few things (unrelated to Dell) that suggest making various registry edits to achieve 1 second path replacement! In my testing so fa

Hello all Unity 300 running OE 4.5.1.0.5.001, i want to upgrade it to last version 5.3.1.0.5.008 looking to the matrix i am unable to understand the target path. could you please help if it is possible to upgrade directly from 4.5.1.0.5.001 to5.3.1.0.5.008 otherwise, what is the advised target to fo

We have 2 Unity arrays; UnitySource and UnityDestination We've created the replication ports and session to replicate data from Source to Destination. All is green and seems fine, data moves to destination just fine. When we initiate a planned failover, ESXI loses access to the Datastore.  I

I'm trying to figure out which card I need for an ML3. As far as I can tell one of these should work: QLE246x FC QLE26xx FC  BR8x5 FC  It would go in an R740 or R750. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi guys! I'm trying to change my Dell Storage SCv3020 IPv4 address to another one since I'm moving this unit from test to production. Both test and production of course has different VLANs and IP subnets for iSCSI and management. However, I'm not able to to so and was hit with a somewhat weird erro

Hello Dell storage experts:  My company recently purchased a new ME5024 with 24 x 3.84TB SSD.  We are in the midst of setting the storage to be used as VM datastores.    We read through the deployment guide and VMware best practices and come to the following regarding the setup

Dear Dell support, I have downloaded UnityVSA-5.3.0.0.5.120.OVA and downloaded XML file later we have converted into .lic file still getting this popup. Please help me! Thank for all   

Hello, How add new sc420 to storage sc5020(without any enclosure).  I dont see information on documents, We must shutdwon storage And Connect sc420 to storage or Connect sc420 to storage And power on sc420 ?