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Hi everybody, I have encountered a weird problem with our PS M4110 series storage. When I ssh into the management console, and issue a command (for example: pool select default show), it returns correct output - an information about the default pool. However, when I send the very same command as a

I have a group with a PS6210xs and a PS6210x. The x is in the default pool, and the xs is in a different pool. Together, they hold more 26 TB of data, so neither member can hold data all by itself. We also have a new 6210x that I am getting ready to join. I'm hoping to join the new array to the grou

I actually have known the procedure on how to shut down the Equallogic PS storage. But I have a question along with the procedure. Do you really need to shut down the iSCSI Initiator or the Host that is connected to the storage before shutting down the storage controller? Because we will be mo

I have a PS4000E that I recently upgraded the firmware to 8.1.3. During the upgrade and subsequent reboot, the member would not come online and join the group. However, when we reboot it again, it will. Currently, it is running on controller 0, and all is well. As a test, I initiated a restart, fai

Hi Gentlemen, A customer is asking us to find a power supply for a PS100, Chassis Type 1403. When I search the internet for information, I find a lot for PS100E. Are they different models or is it the same stuff? Thanks a lot, have a good day, JC

Hello! I have two PS-M4110E and two PS-M4110X that I am going to deploy to two different locations, and I am a bit confused. From the discussions here I have gathered that is not recommended to mix one of each, but from the TR1070 EqualLogic PS Series Architecture: Load Balancers docu

Event ID: 30.4.1 Array firmware update from version V6.0.11 to 7.0.1 failed. Reason: Another copy of update is already running. . I am trying to upgrade from 6.0.11 to 7.0.1 so I can add my new ps6100 to the group. The FTP seems to go fine when I do it from the group management gui.  But when

We recently bought an SC2080 Compellent and while we are waiting on our FC Switches we are trying to connect the compellent directly to an Emulex LP120002 HBA adapter (on an R330 with windows 2012 R2 with MPIO enabled), in the enterprise manager we can add our server and enterprise manager sees that

MDSM v11.2 on a Windows Server 2008r2 I feel like I've seen this issue before but can't remember the solution. Thanks in advance!

hello, after an update of equallogic ps6100 firmware (from 7.1.2 to 8.0.5) , on 2 volumes of the array there is an snapshot planification à midnight (**default**) which is operate. I want to delete this schedule but i don't found where she is set. Even in using cli. Thnaks for your help

I have an old Equallogic san that has a member that died(1 of 2). When I try to remove it, I receive the message, "Call Dell Customer Support" for assistance in deleting an offline member."  Why???  I don't care about the data.  I want to use the other remaining member by itself.

Hello, I have a PS4100 with 12 600GB disks in RAID-50 (4.18TB), and two discs are spare. I want to expand more 1TB and need to know if I can buy more disks and adding the existing Pool. Or I have to buy 3 more disks to a RAID-5? After placing the new disc, the total space of the pool will be ava

I've got an old PS4000 that's long out of warranty and I'm trying to decide whether or not to decommission it or to re-purpose it, but lately, I've been getting errors related to the power cooling module about once a week. The error reads, "Power cooling module 0 is turned off or not receiving powe

Hi Guys, I had a great issue here in my ambient. My interfaces from equallogic iscsi have a lot of erros. What can it be?

I cant get 3.1 to install on 2012R2 because it tries unsuccessfully to install .NET 4.5 which is already installed. Is anyone having this problem and/or did you get past it?

This is a home build for a media server, so it is also my first foray into Server 2012 (essentials) and OMSA... so I undoubtedly did something wrong.  I have an MD1000 with 4 4tb sas drives connected to a sas 6 /e card running a parity ReFS Storage space.  All seems to be working fine,

I am trying to remove a Dell EqualLogic 4000XV from the Dell rails. How do I get this beast out? I removed the drives and power supplies. I unscrewed the thumb screws on the front. I also removed the screw on the back. I can not see what is holding this thing in. I can only get to one side but do no

Hi, We are amassing a large amount of raw video and it's starting to grow at 2TB a year. Currently we have a virtual windows file server with an OS level RDM to the Equallogic volume.Is this the best way to continue toward 10GB+ or should we be thinking differently? vVols? Thanks Damien

Good morning All I have a new virtualisation environment of 3 M620 blades, 2 x Force10 MXL switches and 2 x Equallogic PS6210 - there is the option of using DCB - is it worth setting up DCB, will I get any gains or better stability from it, or for such a small environment should I just use the stan

Is there a limit to the maximum number of MD3060's that can be used as storage enclosures?