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We have a PS4210 for Hyper-V usage that is currently connected through 2 old Dell 5424 (that isn't supported for iSCSI usage with the EQL). We moving to a HPE 3810M SFP+. I already ordered 4 Dell Transceivers for the EQL side. I hope the 407-BBOU are the correct ones. On the HPE side we use HPE X13

Hi, We have a PS6500e that lost power to two out of three power supplies. It went in the standby mode before power was restored. Now it's back up but all the mounted volumes are read-only. When I try to remount I see the following message: mount: cannot remount block device /dev/mapper/eql-0-8a09

Hi, My SANs are running on an old firmware version. I am about to add a new SAN to my array but need to upgrade the firmware on my current SANs as a prerequisite. In the past I have upgraded the firmware using the SANHQ GUI. I have been able to do this while my iSCSI connections were live and duri

I've downloaded and installed the vRealize Operations Management Pack for Dell EqualLogic but I don't understand what username and password are used when configuring the vROps Adapter.  I've gone through the instructions (Dell Storage PS Series vRealize Operations Management Pack - Adminis

Hello, Does Dell have a recommended best practice for physically moving their SAN/NAS from one building to another? We have a good idea of what to do already but would like to compare our thoughts to what Dell suggests. Thx.

Hello, is there any possibility to forcibly delete replication partner and reclaim delegated space if partner not exist anymore. Device - Equallogic PS6000xv Replication was configured with Dell Compellent SCV3020 Here is attempt to reclaim space using CLI: lgb3> partner show Name Receive

Hi, We have a SAN group whose members are currently at firmware 8.1.1. We recently ordered a couple PS6210E's to add to the group, so I was going to upgrade the firmware ahead of time on the current members to 9.1.x.  Unfortunately, two of the servers that access this group are Windows Server

Hi, I would like to know if there is a requirement to install Microsoft MPIO feature before installing DELL HIT app? User manual states: "MPIO service — The Host Integration Tools installation process automatically configures and starts and enables the MPIO service to function properly." Is any b

Hi guys, I have a doubt; I've a Equallogic PS6010 with 8 disk 3TB Dell. Can I insert also SSD Disks to increase performance? I think I understand that the difference between the "E" "S" etc, is only in the disks that are inserted. The controller is always the

Hello everyone, I recently read in the IT magazine that Thin provisioning reduce array performane (IOPS). There was not mentioned about Dell EqualLogic solution, but this 'problem' relates to EqualLogic array?In our company, we're using EqualLogic PS6100 Series and practically we're using only volu

Hi everyone, This is my first time posting here and I hope someone can help me clarify the following, I have a group composed of two old PS6100 and recently I added a PS6210 as it was going to be part of the same group however I had to remove it to make some test with the Storage in an isolated env

Hi All, Getting an error i've never seen before on our secondary (standby) controller in a PS6100. I'm guessing the controller has died, but there are no amber lights on it or anything, and no indication that anything is wrong from the CLI except this message:    b2b_shutdown_link:&nb

We have a nest of two PS6500 (10k and 7k2) which are in support and running our VMware clusters (2 clusters each of three R720s). The PS6500 firmware is currently 7.0.9 on both and as we are upgrading VMware to 6.5U1 I am assuming that to keep MEM compatibility we have to upgrade the firmware to v9.

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Hi, We use Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v cluster with CSV volume connected from iscsi EqualLogic PS6100 storage array (firmware 8.1.0). The problem is that 15TB volume in SAN reports 5TB (4TB free + 1TB unreserved) free space but in Windows Failover Cluster Manager it reports 7.3TB of free space. I kno

Is there an updated Dell PS Series Configuration Guide that list the usable storage with 8TB drives? The only guide I can find only lists up to 6TB drives in the PS6210E and PS6610E? I need to find out the usable capacity of the following systems with the different Raid Configurations PS6210E -

Hi Community, I've done some digging but can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for.  We currently are taking snapshots on the EQL every 60 mins. If I wanted to restore to a snapshot on the EQL with the the volume connected to Vcenter, what is the best step by step process to restore

Is it possible to deploy PS4110 (active/passive) to two non-stacked/non-LAG PowerConnect switch for our vmware infra. I tried deploying it but when switch CM0 to CM1, the storage becomes "iSCSI initiator connection failure". I already implemented port binding and all necessary setup for vmware. Ple

We have an PS 4100 with a failed drive. We have it configured to RAID6 I have a spare drive and was wondering if pull the failed drive out and replace it with the new drive, how much of an impact will it be on users VMs that are running? Should we migrate VMs to local ESXi storage f

HI there. I am out of warranty but hoping somebody can guide me. After a RAID 5 rebuild (failed disk) I can see error 28.3.27 "Lost blocks detected in a RAID set". The rebuild completed successfully but not sure what to do here. SAN is PS6000 and running firmware Storage Array firmware V6.011 (R3933