Dell EMC Unity 600

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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.

Unity OE upgrade fails with error code: 0x6000cb9 if there are ".bin" files in /cores/service (User Correctable)

Common Internet File System (CIFS) Virtual Data Mover (VDM) Import using Import Migration tool (IMT) fails due to NFS exports, DNS mismatches, ACL errors, missing migration interface, C$ share issues. (User Correctable)

Unity call home alert 14:60a38 states: "FastCache has disks that are predicted to exceed drive-specified endurance in less than 30 days with different days remaining for End-Of-Life (EOL)."

Dell Unity: SAN Copy Pull prefers iSCSI over FC if both protocols are configured (User Correctable)

This article explains why a Storage Processor (SP) Panics when a pool reaches 100% consumed and provides remediation options.

Dell EMC Unity: Multiprotocol batch jobs failing since migration to Unity from VNX due to file locking (User Correctable)

Dell Unity: The NTP servers cannot be used because they are not synchronized. Please synchronize your NTP servers and try again. (Error Code:0x6000841) (User Correctable)

This document provides further details about the root cause and resolution of the errors received when attempting to authenticate with a user associated with a LDAP group.

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.

Fibre Channel port SP XX I/O Module XX FC Port XX link is down

Severe performance issues after some flash drives start logging errors but are not automatically failed by the system.

Unity is not responding to NLM lock requests.

Unity is randomly creating SMB Shares of Shares that already exist and also creating VSS snaps of the Shares. The VSS Snapshots fail to delete.

This article describes Data Reduction considerations and best practices on a Dell Unity array.

While a user enables "Antivirus service" on the NAS server, an error is received due to wrong configuration file uploaded. (User Correctable)

How to collect the log on ESRS gateway (User Correctable)

What is the Unity Performance Metrics Aging Policy and the length of retention for Unity Performance Archive (UPA) files?

This article explains two methods of upgrading the Unity OE: Unisphere UI and Command Line (uemcli)

ESRS service can now be restarted with out remote support intervention

The following are the steps that can be taken to enable ESRS Integrated using CLI on a Unity array. (User Correctable)

Dell EMC Unity: How to identify the Primary Storage Processor (User Correctable)

This article shows how to find the Dell Unity Serial Number (SN) when looking for CTA Virtual Edition (VE) support, since CTA VE, when implemented with Unity, has no SN to open a case with, instead the Unity SN is used.

This article covers the correct procedure to shut down and power on a Dell Unity system (virtualized or physical).

This article explains how to use the multiprotocol functionality with local files and serves as a reference for those customers who are willing to understand how this functionality works.

This article shows how to monitor a drive rebuild or proactive copy. (User Correctable)