Search

Hi Can we order ME5084 with 84 hard drives installed inside?? is it safe to do so? Each hard drive is 3.5 inch which weighs around 800g. I worry that 84 of those drives could damage ME5084 while delivering it abroad, i.e. during shipping. But at the same time, I want drives to be installed by DELL.

What does Dell generally recommend? I haven't found anywhere in the docs (yet) that recommends if LUNs and volumes should be 1:1 or if they can be 1:Many.

Hello everyone, ​ Is it possible to connect MD1400 to ME412 or ME424? Now we have MD1400 with PERC H840 RAID Adapter and we need to expand space.I read in an old conversation that MD1400 is not compatible with ME4 Series due "2 different softwares that are not compatible.". Is this relevant now, a

Hello Dell storage experts:I am going to update disk firmware in PowerVault ME5024 storage. Guidelines tells to stop I/O before the firmware update. but I still could not find the way of doing so. please guide to me stop I/O of system.

Hi i have a powervault MD3220 which is currently running on 1 raid controller in slot 1. In slot 0 currently there is no hardware. So i have bought a new controller which i want to put in with a different fireware too. Can i put it with out powering off the whole unit?

Hello, I am setting up a ME5024 with 10x 4TB disks for VM storage and was wondering about pool setup. If I use the auto setup it creates one RAID 6 30TB pool if I create a manual pool of 2x RAID 6 and one RAID 1 using both controllers I would lose about 11TB of space. How much of a performance hit

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?

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

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

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 ?

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

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?

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

Hello good evening, after following all the recommendations made and analyzing the manual, unfortunately we were unable to do so, thank you for your support.

Hi, I have a Powervault TL4000 with an LTO-6 drive and now I could get an LTO-7 drive cheap, I know the part number for the DELL LTO-7 Drive for TL4000 is 0M3HCC, the drive I can get is an IBM 38L7604 in a library sled, there is no other number on the sled.     Is it possible to get this

Hi, I noticed some info about T10 PI of dell product, and then some question. 1) DELL NL-SAS disk is formatted as T10 PI type 2.  this is very nice. thanks. 2)  'perc add vd' have a 'pi' option, but this feature is not enabled(perc show pi).     here 'pi' just means T10 PI

Hello I have read the discussion about 3820F try to reseat controller and cache and it's still not working The main difference is that we have a full 3860F as replacement parts controller are all at same latest firmware version I would like to know how to change the controller is there any special

Hi, h965e failed to import a vd created by h840. ERROR message: 0x80 The foreign configuration cannot be imported because the configuration is not complete. Ctrl Product Name     SASAddress         Personality Status  PD(s) VD(s) VNOpt EPack--------------------

‘perccli2 /c0 show all' failed to report the disks connected to a H965e/6Gb EMC ESES Enclosure But the disk number(3) is reported in 'perccli2 show' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ctrl Product Name     SASAddress     &n

Folks, The Storage is working fine, thank you all for the help. So, could you someone explain Snapshot and replication to me? What are they for? Is it imperative I use them? Why? Thank you again