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Hi, In my organization we have two Equallogic PS6000XV connected to two Powerconnect 5424 serving 3 VMWARE ESXI servers. We want to upgrade the switches to Two Powerconnect 5548 stacked with hdmi cables and add a third Equallogic PS6100 to the mix. Can the Powerconnect 5548 handle this configu

Hello, My r620's come with a BCM57800 with iscsi hw offload. Is it advisable to work with the hw iscsi initators or with the sw initator of vmware? Regards Hans

I would like to replicate NAS containers from a primary cluster to a disaster recovery cluster (both ends have FS7600 with dual controllers). Volume replication is working between the PS devices. In Group Manager I click NAS > Configure Replication > Replication partner (the DR group) > OK.

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had an answer to this: We have recently installed 8 EqualLogic arrays (4 x 6100x + 4 x 6100E). We have two server rooms and have configured a SAN group in each machine room consisting of a single storage pool (2 x 6100X (RAID50) + 2 x 6100E (RAID6) )in order to uti

We have an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN that has exceeded the limits for iSCSI connections. The limit is 1024 but we are at 1612. The thing is that nothing appears to be affected. We can still add LUNs/servers etc. Are we likely to hit problems? Some sort of performance issue? There doesn't appear to be muc

I have created raid0 with 2 hard drive. how can I add other hard drive into already created array?

Is there a supported and good way to do it? The setup looks like this: - Group 1 in subnet A (1Gb SAN, older) - Group 2 in subnet B (10Gb SAN, newer) - Host has connections to all subnets through different NICs, is a Windows server, has HIT Kit and working MPIO to group A - Subnet A and B are p

I do not see any mention of disabling Delayed ACK in VMware ESXi in the EqualLogic Configuration Guide 14.1. Is this no longer a best practice? If it is still best practice, which official Dell document states this? Thank you in advance :)

I have purchased a new Equallogic 6100 and want that to become my production SAN and evacuate my older PS5000. I have the 6100 in the same group as the 5000 and it has just finished verifying its raid set and now has about half my data 2TB and the 5000 has the other half. I did notice that the new a

Hi, I have a cluster of two Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition servers running Hyper-V, with a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) that lives on an EqualLogic PS6500E SAN. I've configured the EqualLogic HIT/ME 4.5 tools on both servers, and can perform scheduled Smart Copies of a collection consisting o

Hello, My current setup is the following: . Site A, Storage Group of 2 EqualLogic Members (6100XV). Each Member are configured with RAID10, and with automatic performance load sharing. I'm setting up a new site (let's call it Site B), with the same hardware. I want to replicate almost all LUNs fr

We currently running VMware ESXi and have a PS5000E in production with firmware 5.2.4 and have purchased a PS6100 to replace it (current firmware unknown). We want to use the 5000 in the future as a replication partner. What is the best method to move all the data over to the new SAN and remove the

Hi guys Can anyone provide guidance or point me to documentation on installing custom certificates on a PS Series Group please? I see references in the Group Admin Guide and CLi documentation, but I can’t find anything specific detailing configuration options, procedures etc. Thank you in advan

Hi, I have installed the MD storage array vcenter plugin version 2.5 ok on my vcenter server. However, on my PC when I launch the VI client I see under manage plugins the option to download and install the plugin. When I do that it fails with the below error: Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-In

Hi All, I'm preparing to upgrade our Dell R610 Hosts from ESXi4.1 U1 to ESXi 5.1. We are using an EqualLogic PS6100E via iSCSI.  I have vCenter 5.1 installed and have prepared Update Manager with the Dell Custom ESXi 5.1 image, thinking that it would contain all necessary drivers/mod

I have just bought a Dell PowerEdge R520 with three Broadcom 5720 Dual-Port NICs. I am planning to boot Windows Server 2008 directly from a EqualLogic PS140E SAN and want to create four SAN volumes that correspond directly to four NTFS volumes. I just have a single Dell PowerConnect 5424 switch. Wo

I changed the default GW for all the members of a group. Traffic is still flowing, but a traceroute from the CLI has traffic going to the old router before turning around and getting re-routed to the proper router. It looks like the SAN learned a particular route, and is not updating it's routing t

Hi, After the initial setup (via serial cable) we've set the default gateway on iSCSI network. Ip address is set for management interface on management network as well. Now we want to access management port from different network. Actually we don't really need dg on iscsi network as there will be

Hi all, Quite new to SAN administration, so still tons to learn ****************************************************************** environment: (SAN HQ v2.5.0.6470) 1 Group consisting of 8 Members (all on firmware 6.0.2) Equallogic 1x PS5000 5x PS6000 2x PS6100 iSCSI connections throughout

Hi We are thinking about buying a PS6110XS for a VDI project.(vmware view 5.1) Currently we have a SAN with 4 PS6010 (SAS/SATA) in one storage pool. Would you recommend to put the new hybrid array in the same pool, or should we configure a new pool to assure VDI will get best possible performance