PowerMax 8500

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Dust or chemical contamination at the endface of a fiber optic LC connector or transceiver module impedes signaling. Dell engineering teams have verified cases in which a fully functional port appears to be a bad port because dirty optical connectors manifest as a port failing loop testing with acceptable power measurement levels. Cable connectors should be cleaned and when stored must be protected from dust particle or chemical contamination.

Dell PowerMaxOS, Dell PowerMax EEM, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax, Dell Unisphere for PowerMax Virtual Appliance, Dell Solutions Enabler and Dell Solutions Enabler Virtual Appliance remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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“Replication Sessions” sometimes display in the Unisphere GUI and sometimes they do not: File Protection > Replication > Replication Sessions It was not possible to replicate this issue internally. The Replication Sessions view (Data Protection > File Protection > Replication > Replication sessions) loads via a sequential chain , it first queries DP Networks, then Remote Systems, and only then fetches the Replication Sessions list. If any step in that chain fails intermittently (e.g. a timeout on the Remote Systems or DP Networks call), the sessions will not be displayed without any error shown to the user.

Isilon/PowerScale node panics

Detailed procedure to upgrade Solutions Enabler and Unisphere for PowerMax.

A curated list of technical information resources such as guides, checklist, simple support matrix, and how-to videos to help with PowerMax deployment and use.

Solutions Enabler (SE) commands fail with the error "The requested feature is not supported for this microcode or SYMAPI version." This occurs after the PowerMaxOS in the array is upgraded to v10.2 or v10.3.

Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) Container Storage Interface (CSI) Driver for PowerMax fails volume creation with errors finding storage group (SG) and volume.

A PowerMax may show alerts in Unisphere or a health check when the file system-used space is at or above 85% of maximum capacity.

Unisphere for PowerMax: SNMP configuration lost after upgrade from 5978.711.711 to 5978.714.714.

Linked (or previously-linked) targets behave uniquely in the handling of allocations. When targets are freed, only the updated track allocations is returned to the Storage Resource Pool (SRP).

Unisphere for PowerMax Alert Description =Symmetrix 000123456789: Service Processor down or not communicating with the array. OR symevent alert "The Symmetrix Service Processor or MMCS is not communicating with the Symmetrix."

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This article describes an email alert when the Effective Used Capacity (EUC) in a Storage Resource Pool (SRP) surpasses a consumption threshold. The email alert generates from an array through a connecthome. The connect homes generate when the Effective Used Capacity surpasses 80%, 90%, 95%, or 99% capacity.

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This KB explains how to use the Red Hat GitHub kubevirt-rawio-addon repository to present PowerMax Gatekeepers to either a Red Hat OpenShift or Upstream Kubernetes environment.

Metro drop after a device drops not ready on the link.

Running a traceroute

PowerMax 2500 & 8500: SRDF/A Auto-Recovery

Unmanaged Snapshots

Unexpected invalids during Disaster Recovery (DR) Test or Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR) Test.

Symmetrix Triangular Asynchronous Replication (STAR) or Symmetrix Quadrilateral Asynchronous Replication (SQAR) fails to activate. Congroup did not trip when the trip command was issued.

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This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

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SK Hynix PE8010 & PE8030 NVMe M.2 drives have been observed to report a PDR3 Event Code and failed status.

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