Dell EMC Unity XT 880F

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Broadcom has announced the deprecation of vVols in VCF/VVF 9.0, with removal planned for 9.1. Customers using vVols with Dell Unity should avoid upgrading to VCF/VVF 9.0, as support will be limited to critical fixes only. Customers can migrate from vVols to Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) using Storage vMotion or XCOPY (starting in VCF 9.0).

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

During a Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) to PowerStoreOS v3.0.0, the PowerStore Manager user interface (UI) may become inaccessible. The UI fails to load after the second node reboots as part of the update process.

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

On a Unity NAS server, NFSv4 locks may be held on files for more than five minutes following an unexpected client shutdown, or a network partition. (User Correctable)

This article explains Unity Link Aggregation and how to configure it. (User Correctable)

This article provides links to several Dell Community pages.

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

One or more 25GbE ports with a four-port mezzanine or I/O module may not initialize and remain link down upon a SP reboot or initial cabling/recabling.

The system's root drive is running out of space.

Answers to common Dell Unity Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) related questions

Information about customer replaceable unit (CRU) videos for Dell Technologies Unity products

How to deal with an event in which Replication transfers stopped.

This article describes the causes and solutions when Option [3] in the menu about Certificate is not displayed in the uemcli command. (User Correctable)

This article shows how to check the live/active sessions for a SMB NAS Server using CLI

Is it possible to disable SMB shares from a NAS Server so that users cannot access the shares temporarily? (User Correctable)

Random stop responding conditions and performance issues while trying to access the exports on the destination side of replication. (User Correctable)

"Cannot update destination because destination pool is full" (User Correctable)

CloudIQ scores on some Unity arrays are now showing red and are indicating that some drives have old firmware.

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)

How to check Drive End Of Life (EOL) on Dell Unity arrays.

This article covers the necessary steps to verify and address issues with the Kerberos Service response issues when trying to add or modify NAS servers in a LDAP environment.

How to handle blocked thread events in a Dell Unity system. (Dell Correctable)

This article explains the symptoms and resolution of several drives appearing as faulted in a newly installed array (this could also happen if there is cross cabling after Unity has been installed)

A blank upload error appears in the Unisphere dialog with no specific error message or error code.

Unable to configure LDAP and LDAPS -- connection verification fails.

Customer does not wish to use domain administrator credentials to join NAS Server to AD due to security reasons. Customer would like to know what are the specific domain user permissions the NAS Server uses to Join to the Active directory.