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We have an FS7600 where the battery was going bad on one of the controllers. So I detached it and it went offline.  We pulled the controller and replaced the battery.  We plugged it back in and when it was ready we tried to "attach" the controller and it has been sitting at 23% for hours.

I have a PS6000 that shows a warning of degraded. When I look at the Group manager, all disks show online and status healthy. I logged into the CLI and ran the diskview -j to see the status of the disks. which drive do you think would be causing the degraded status?  Could it be drive 9 ?

Hi, We have a dell EqualLogic ps4100 storage array with a firmware version of, I believe, 7.0.0 and Bootloader Version 3.6.4. It has been purchased a few years back and we no longer have an active support plan. It is now in a reboot loop saying "ERROR:15.4.3:NVRAM contains valid data. This is a WATC

Hi All, We are migrating from a Dell EqualLogic 6100E to a Dell Unity380 Storage Array. We have some iSCSI LUNS on the EqualLogic that we need to migrate to a Unity 380. Trying to figure out the best way to migrate these volumes.  One of our windows servers uses these volumes and connects up

We stumbled upon an issue that has us scratching our heads. We were getting ready to move the 10Gb cables on the standby controller to a new set of switches, but eth1 was showing activity on that controller.  I'll attempt to post a couple images, but essentially it looks like this: Controller

Hello, I'm having difficulties with Blade storage PS m4110 setup. I've got two drives failed and would like to rebuild the RAID with 12 drives. Run storage full storage 'reset'. After storage initial setup in command line I'm trying to create RAID and receiving an error saying all disks should be a

I have an old equallogic internally running testing - which I don't want to turn off or restart at the moment. Meaning a replace of battery without turning off the SAN:I have a battery failure, and have a challenge to pick the correct Controller module to pull from SAN, ref Fig 1 and Fig 2 below.

is there a way to export the member iscsi connections list?

I have a PS4210 that's been running fine for around 4 years. Very rarely rebooted or power cycled.  When I rebooted it yesterday, it won't boot up fully.  One controller has a red light, the other two greens.  The output below is from the active (working) controller. At login, it gi

SAN: Equallogic PS6100 We experienced a long power outage on Feb 15. Normally that doesn't concern me as we have a Generac generator that is supposed to kick in when it sees our power going down. Unfortunately that generator did not kick in, it was frozen due to extreme cold temperatures. When p

Hi I'm planning to update the firmware on a group of 3 PS6210s. They're currently on version 8.1.3, and I want to get them on to the latest version, which I believe is 10.0.3. The upgrade path for these is 8.1.3 -> 9.0.9 -> 9.1.9 -> 10.0.3 I'm going to use the Storage Update Manager whic

Hi, We have one PS4100, currently on firmware V7.1.2. I was planning to upgrade the firmware, the upgrade path states that I need to upgrade from V7.1 -> V8.1 ->V9.0.x -> V9.1.x   I have downloaded V8.1 but I can't find V9.0.x download link. Please help to check how can I downloa

Hi, All My EqualLogic PS4210 has both controller show battery end of life. When i replaced slot 0 battery, the battery still show end of life. Any one can help? Many thanks!

Late yesterday, I was working in our vSphere 6.5 Environment connected to a Horizon View Desktop. The View Desktops reside on the EqualLogic as does the other infrastructure VMs. I lost connection and contacted our admin. They traced the problem to the EqualLogic going down and reporting no

Hi All, I am a newbie and want to know how Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV expands the capacity. I have a Dell EqualLogic PS6110XV has 12 disk, running Raid 10, i want to add more 12 disk to expand the Raid. I want to know what should I do? Thanks!

Hi,I was told that I was running a non supported disk configuration as I had 16x 400GB SSD.I have now removed the extra SSD and added the new spinning disk. in total, I now have 7x 400GB SSD and 17x 600GB spinning disk.Since I replaced the disks, I am no longer able to access the out of band managem

I have a Equalogic PS6100XV, it worked well for almost 6 years,but now the hard drives have started to break down.I am replacing the defective disks as soon as possible, but 6 HD's were damaged in less than 3 months. Is any equipment defect damaging the disks? or is it just the lifespan of the disks

Hi, I would like to connect a DL4300 win 2012 server to a decommissioned PS4210. I am setting up a N4032 switch with two vlans, lan and iscsi.  Could someone help me with configuring the server and equallogic for management access and storage operation. thx, peter

Hello, After upgraded a PS4000 from the release 9.1.1 to 9.1.9 the usual password of grpadmin don't work any more... Moreover the IP address seems to be lost because the SAN doesn't respond anymore.  During the upgrade thru the "Storage Update Manager" everything work as expected. I could l

I am planning to update the firmware on a Dell Equallogic PS 6100. It is currently running firmware version 7.1.5. I went onto eqlsupport.dell.com to get the .zip file to upload the firmware update. I see the have three versions listed as recommended ps series firmware: 10.0.3, 9.1.9, and 8.1.15. I