Dell EMC Unity 550F

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Dell guidance to mitigate risk and resolution for the side-channel analysis vulnerabilities (also known as L1 Terminal Fault or L1TF) for servers, storage, and networking products. For specific information about affected platforms and next steps to apply the updates, see this guide.

Solid state drive error 02/04/01 or a 04/29/04 internal reset may experience a data loss or coherency situation.

Reported vulnerability with Nessus scan: "Unix Operating System Unsupported Version Detection: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.0 support ended on 2019-12-31 (end of regular support) / 2022-12-31 (LTSS option). Upgrade to SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.5 / 15.1."

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

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

Unity arrays cannot synchronize with NTP servers having a stratum value of 6 or greater. No error is shown in Unisphere, but the Unity clock does not synchronize.

This article explains the relationship between SCSI reservation conflicts and Shared ESXi Datastores.

In Unity 5.5, File System (FS) access can be provided using a Network File System (NFS) mount using NFSv3 or NFSv4 file sharing protocols. This is typically done for Logical Unity Numbers (LUN) and NFS datastores with specific mounting parameters and then scripted for various groups of hosts. A directory is created for the mount point when mounting file shares using NFSv4.2. If the directory security label (sec_label) parameter has no data assigned to it, the Unity Service Processors (SP) can panic and reboot unexpectedly.

Dell Unity OE Matrix, release dates, recommended code, and so on.

How to reset the Access Control List (ACL) for a file or file system when the Windows admin no longer has access to modify the permissions using an SMB client.

The pool has Flash drives of a specific type that are predicted to exceed end-of-life thresholds within 60 days. The storage system does not have enough free drives of the same type to replace them.

This article will address whether Unity is affected by CVE-2018-8781

The replication session was unable to be resumed after code upgrade to 5.5. (User Correctable)

Repetitive alert seen in Unisphere when Periodic Online Drive Firmware Update (pODFU) is enabled. (User Correctable)

CIFS sessions fail with STATUS_USER_SESSION_DELETED. This is caused by an issue in code 4.0 and 4.1 that generates session IDs above 64,000. (Dell Correctable)

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Failed to enable Integrated Remote Support. (Error Code:0x6400bb9)

Linux user may not be able to access some files or folders in Network File System (NFS) export after upgrading to Unity OE 5.5.

This article explains an error that may occur when applying an older language pack after upgrading to UnityOS 5.5.1.

Alert 14:38005a is generated when using SupportAssist. The SupportAssist metadata partition has less than 20% of its drive space left. Your SupportAssist function may be affected.

Dell UnityVSA and Dell Unity XT remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

The Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) has faulted.

The Disk Array Enclosure (DAE) has faulted.

​DPE fault LED is on due to fault with LCC cable or connector.

This KB article is a list of technical documents and videos produced by Dell Technologies.

Dell UnityVSA and Dell Unity XT remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

UnityOS Image upload may fail due to network instability during the transfer process. This document describes the symptoms, a possible cause, and resolution steps.

Dell Unity reports Call Home Alert 14:38002a / 14:38002b the System's Root Drive Is Running Out of Space.