PowerMax Engine

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.

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies Enterprise and Datacenter Infrastructure products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

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

How to bring directors online using Solutions Enabler?

Upon creating a file system (FS) with an identical name to the SNS name, SNS export cannot be mounted using NFSv4.

SDNAS set both replication VDMs (Source and DR) to maintenance mode. Data is not accessible when both VDMs are in Maintenance mode. This article describes how to recover from this condition.

A PowerMax Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) to PowerMaxOS 10.0.1.0 may show a significant SRP change in utilization.

SnapVX Snapshot linked device showing larger Exclusive Effective than expected

Could not perform the symclone incremental establish when R2 devices as source are in a consistent state.

Learn how the MyService360 services analytics dashboard integrates the Dell AIOps (formerly CloudIQ) Health Score into the Install Base views. This integration streamlines services and product health management by IT admins using the MyService360 and Dell AIOps portals. Verify supported products by portal and access helpful Dell AIOps resources.

Explore the Dell End of Service Life (EOSL) and End of Life (EOL) list for converged infrastructure, storage, and storage networking products. Access End-of-Life documents for hardware, software, and firmware release and service dates

How to configure ECOM service to automatically restart after crashing?

VDM cannot load after a DataMover (DM) panic due to blocked threads, issue is when eNAS is running Version 8.1.15.401 and NFSv4 mounted filesystem.

SRM 4.7.1 Vmax/PowerMax discovery fails after upgrade to SRM 4.7.1 SRM discovery test fails with http-get: command returned with a non-zero status (Status: 5)! 500: Internal Server Error

Dell Storage Simple Support Matrices on E-Lab Navigator provide the optimal interoperability for your storage solution.

How to perform storage performance analysis and sizing of ASP capacity and individual disks for an IBM i host system.

The Solutions Enabler symcfg list -demand and Unisphere displays show Metadata usage by percentage, but do not show the numbers that are used for the calculation. Dell users can connect to the array and gather this data.

This article provides a list of security vulnerabilities that cannot be exploited on Dell EMC PowerMax Embedded NAS (eNAS) version 8.1.15.*, but which may be identified by security scanners.

The Dell VMAX and PowerMax enterprise storage platform families support storage-based Non-Disruptive Migrations (NDM) to migrate business-critical host systems to new storage arrays without application downtime. With the release of the PowerMaxOS 5978.444.444 code family, NDM support is added for the IBMi host platform. NOTE 1: For IBMi systems that also use Dell's native STM software toolkit (SRDF/TimeFinder Manager for IBMi), there are some additional considerations when the (optional) final step in the NDM process is done for a device-identity reset (unspoofing) of the migrated devices. Read the instructions provided below, prior to performing the identity reset! NOTE 2: The device identity reset, also mentioned as an "unspoof" operation, has implications for the next initial program load (IPL) phase after the unspoof. Read further details below.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) and ConnectEMC call home may not function if the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) or Secure Remote Services (SRS) gateway is updated.

Authentication issues will occur if symauth is enabled and daemons are restarted, before user and group role mappings are defined.

After updating Emulex drivers to version 12.8.317.0, users report loss of connection to their arrays.

Host may be impacted with high read latency of up to 3 seconds and TASK1 timeouts if an EDS director is in DD state. Fix 107048 is required.

Dell has a Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) program for many of our hardware systems. The CRU program allows customers to replace designated hardware components. For a list of the hardware components that are designated as CRU for a specific hardware system, go to the Dell Warranty and Maintenance Page.

Mainframe SuperPAV (XPAV) Alias I/O is timing out on TASK22. Fix 106539 is required.

VMAX or PowerMax upgrades from 5977 to 5978.221, then to 5978.479 may cause a FICON metadata mismatch that would keep new paths from logging in correctly. This could also be seen after a Power On Reset, and prevent the loading of new IBM MF channel code. Fix 106985 is required.

In a Mainframe environment, during Online Fast IML, the FICON directors may become unresponsive when handling too many State Change Interrupts (SCI). Fix 106587 is required.

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

Replication Data Pointers (RDP) LRU contention may cause memory failures. Fix 106475 is required.

FICON port encountering bad incoming Fibre Channel frames may go Port busy impacting systems attached to the array. Fix 106495 required.