Hello RameshRT,

Do you have the serial cable that came with your MD3600f?  If you do then you can set the IP by using the following:

1. Startup a terminal emulation program like PuTTY, Tera Term, Minicom, or HyperTerminal using terminal settings 115200-8-n-1.
2. Send a from the terminal shell. To do this, use within HyperTerminal or PuTTY, or use from within Minicom on Linux systems.
3. • When prompted for input within five seconds, press for the service interface menu.

NOTE:The command is case-sensitive.

4. The user will then be prompted for a password. The password is: supportDell
5. The menu options available are:

    1) Display IP Configuration

    2) Change IP Configuration

    3) Reset Storage Array (SYMbol) Password

1. Q) Quit Menu

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello Ramesh,

Yes the steps are the same for all MD36xx systems. You are correct that you should be able to change the IP address via MDSM.  When that doesn’t work then you can change it via the serial shell, or you can use SMCLI to change the IP address.  Here is a link to the SMCLI guide if you need it. http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/powervault-md3200_cli%20guide_en-us.pdf   

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello Ramesh,

Here is the command to set the management IP.

set controller [0 or 1] ethernetPort [0] enableIPv4=true enable IPv4=false IPv4Address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IPv4ConfigurationMethod=static IPv4SubnetMask=255.255.255.0 duplexMode=true portSpeed=[autoNegotiate]

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

The other (non-serial) option is to plug both controllers' management ports into your LAN, give a computer temporarily a 192.168.128.100 IP address, use MDSM to discover the array (has to be in the same vlan (can't go over a gateway/router)). Once discovered, pull up the array management and on the setup tab is the option to change the controllers' IP addresses.

Even i had need to configure the Raid Controller IP and I had connected Lan cable to Laptop ethernet and Storage management port.

I am using the disk storage manager to configure to new IP after configure new IP when i click OK , getting alert message that the "Changing the speed of duplex settings of the management port from the autonegotiation default settings is not recommended.  After clicking yes and again rechecking of the IP Change does not show new IP and is set to default IP 192.168.129.101.

Can anyone let me know what could be the problem Thanks.

Even i had need to configure the Raid Controller IP and I had connected Lan cable to Laptop ethernet and Storage management port. 

I am using the disk storage manager to configure to new IP after configure new IP when i click OK , getting alert message that the "Changing the speed of duplex settings of the management port from the autonegotiation default settings is not recommended.  After clicking yes and again rechecking of the IP Change does not show new IP and is set to default IP 192.168.129.101.

Can anyone let me know what could be the problem Thanks.

Hi Sam,

Thanks for the reply, forgot to mention the storage model is MD3820f is the same step applicable for MD3820f storage. 

Also it looks strange why the default IP not got changed to the new IP assigned through the Dell MD Disk storage manager software.  Since this was one of the procedure to be used mentioned in the site http://www.dell.com/support/manuals/ie/en/iebsdt1/powervault-md3820f/md3800fmd3820fdgpub/installing-powervault-md-storage-software?guid=guid-4a166e10-5032-41f9-b324-10e1fcb8e3ff&lang=en-us

Cheers

Ramesh

Hi Sam,

Can you please share a sample CLI command to change default IP to NEW IP with subnetmask, gateway option.  I was searching the CLI doc but could not find it.  Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Ramesh

@DELL-Sam L 

Let me try that.. I have been joined to this after all those time passed