Dell EMC Unity 500

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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.

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.

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

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)

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

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)

APEX AIOps Observability is a no-cost cloud-native application that proactively monitors and measures the overall health of your storage systems through intelligent, comprehensive, and predictive analytics.

Disk is predicted to exceed drive specified write endurance within 30 days. (User Correctable)

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.

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

BB_Credit (buffer to buffer) setting for Unity Storage Processor FC ports (User Correctable)

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.

NAS Server Replication Session creation failing

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.

This KB article details an issue in which the array predicts drives to wear out in less than 180 days.

This KB article details 2020 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) channel binding and an LDAP signing requirement for Windows CVE-2017-8563.