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Hello all, I have installed ASM/ME in the windows 2008 r2 server, and enabled email alter settings. But, I find a strange thing. I have not enabled infrmational alter, such as, smart copy succeeded. as show in the follwoing photo. But, I still can receive a mail about "HIT/ME Alter: Create Smart

Lost blocks and lost configuration on PS6000 After power loss and restart, the following symptoms: No Ethernet links activeLogin via Console serial cable gives lost blocksOld grpadmin password is remembered, but no group info present, so the member is asking to initialise the array. All data woul

I just wanted to get some sort of idea on how power should be distributed on Equallogic PS6510. There are three PSU at the back of the unit. PSU1 plugs in to PDU A PSU2 plugs in to PDU B PSU3 plugs in to PDU A or B Problem is that 6510 requires power from at least two of these PSU's at all time

Hey all, We currently have a group with 3 PS6010's with 600GB 15k SAS drives in RAID 50 connected via 10GE. We just purchased a new PS6010 with 3TB 7.2k SAS drives.  All members are on the latest firmware 5.2.2. So we have been trying to decide if we wanted to add this new member to the same

I find a strange thing. it seems that the username and password can't be saved for "Global" (ASM/ME - Settings - CHAP Settings)   for the user name s and password of the Group that I added, though it seems the username and password has been saved, but actually, it dose not work. the us

Hello All, With ASM/ME, I successfully create a snapshot for SQL Server 2008 r2 cluster,but when I tried to recover from the snapshot, I get the following pic, I am sure that useranme and password for both VDS/VSS Acccess and Smart copy access are correct. I click ok, a few seconds later, the "add

I have a Powervault 124T in a remote site, so all knowledge is heresay. The drive keeps prompting for a cleaning tape - over and over again. The local technician has done this repeatedly, and even after purchasing a new cleaning tape, it repeatedly prompts for a cleaning even after several attempts.

Hi All, We have three Members in our group with multiple volumes spread across the SAN arrays. We plan to upgrade from Firmware version 4.3.4 to 5.2.2, I understand that we need to go 4.3.4 > 5.0.2 > 5.2.2 We are running vSphere 4.1 and would like to leave the business critical VM's live

Hello, I have a ps4000, connected over iscsi to a windows 2008 r2 (hyper-v virtual) server, I have some inconsistent performance issues with the read speeds in particular with small file sizes. Copying large files to the san is fine, and copying small files to the san is also fine. However when t

Question - is there a way to modify the ICMP ping timeout value for SAN HQ when it checks the group for connectivity? I am monitoring ~800 PS4000 throughout the country and when I use SAN HQ to monitor them the heartbeat ping that gets sent sends an error (warning) message to an Inbox if it does no

Current Config: 1 Group, 3 Equallogic member Arrays: Array01, Array02 and Array03. 3 Storage Pools Array01 (default), Array02, Array03 I need to delete member Array01 to remove it from the group. Will the default storage pool move automatically to another Storage Pool? i.e. Array02? I have alrea

We are trying to set up a DR4000 with Symantec Backup Exec 2012 VRay Edition. DR4000 firmware is at 1.0.1.1 I have created a new container and set full NFS and CIFS permissions with no restrictions. (Open Access) When I go to add a new disk based storage location in BE, all goes OK until BE tries

Hi, We currently have a MD3000i with an attached MD1000. Attached to this are 3 Dell 2950's running VMware 4.1. We have just purchased 3 R620's and a MD3220 with an attached MD1220 (using SAS connections) To move the data across from the old SAN to the new SAN I was going to attach the new SAN to

Environment: m1000e with six 710HD Blades - two blades are esxi hosts managed by a guest VM vCenter Server. The remaining 3 blades are Oracle Virtual Servers. All connect to the Equallogic. The only other server which has an iSCSI connection to the Equallogic group is a Symantec Media server. In

hi there, I need to upgrade the firmware on 3 equallogics from 5.02 to 5.2.2. I plan to do this via an interim upgrade to 5.1.2 I was wondering if you think its necessary to shutdown and servers (VMs) running off the SAN when the firmware is upgraded? Thanks, Huw

hi there, We have recently bought an equallogic ps4000 which will be used in a branch office primarily for DR purposes. The idea is to have a copy of all of the critical servers on this branch office array. My plan was to create a "seed" replica of all the servers when both arrays are in head off

I assume I am getting re-transmissions during replication because the network between my orginating group and the target group is not all Jumbo frames/Flow control etc? I get a steady rate of between 1.1 and 1.3% during the replication....if it goes beyond an hour (rare). The replication does fini

Hi, i got a new PS6100 with 24 x 1TB NL-SAS HDD.The raid policy is RAID50 with 2 spares. can someone explain why the usable space is limited to 15,71 TB ? I thought that there are 2 striped RAID5 (n-1) sets on that machine if i chose RAID50. I start with 24 x 1 TB = 24 TB - 2 spares = 22 TB -

Hi! I have just bought a PS4100E and wounder how i should connect to my Powerconnect 8024F, and join my existing group? The PS4100E only have 2x1GbE/Controller. And the switch is SFP+ i think. BrPatrik

Hello,I have 2 hosts (PowerEdge R710) running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7, accessing a storage (PowerVault MD3200i) directly connected (no switches in between). Also I have installed and configured multipath. Everything seemed to be working fine, until I noticed that when I make a change to the stor