Hyper-V cluster CSV allocation unit size
Hi. Is there any Dell recommendation when it comes to allocation unit size of NTFS volumes that will be serving as CSVs (Cluster Shared Volumes) in a Hyper-V cluster?Using EQL LUNs in the background...
View ArticleMEM and ESXi 6
I'm starting to look into ESXi 6 and plan an eventual upgrade path and I have a few questions.I assume the arrays 6210 and 4210 running 7.0.10/7.1 or higher are compatible with ESXi 6?I’ve seen a...
View ArticleEqualLogic drive faled. Array has fewer spare drives than expected.
Hi. We have PS6100 EqualLogic with 24 SSD drives in total (RAID10, 1Pool). One drive is as Spare. Now one disk failed and we see message "Array has fewer spare drives than expected". Does that mean we...
View ArticleAny alternative for PS6500?
Is there any alternative in Dell storage for Equalogic PS6500 series? Want to set up an environment with two-linux systems doing HA in a simple fashion and share storage between two systems.Also any...
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queue depth question
I've got a couple of PS6210XS arrays. One is connected with 2 x 1GB and the other is connected with 1 x 10GB (I'm short on ports on my 10gig switch at the moment hence only one active connection).They...
View ArticleFaster file copy than expected
Not complaining, but trying to figure out how this is working. We have a new PS6210xs in a group with a PS6000 attached via 1Gb switches to esxi 5.5 hosts. I moved a Windows 2008 R2 TS guest to the...
View ArticleSyncRep automatic failover
Hi!I have been trying to find out if SyncRep supports automatic failover. So far I have not found a definite answer and I was hoping someone could help me answer this questionsBest RegardsKim
View ArticleUnable to provide VLAN id to access iSCSI lun in my blade servers M620 via...
QLogic FastUtil! utility doesn't have option to provide VLAN id in order to access the iSCSI target lun. Please advice.Gowri
View ArticleError Messages (SNMP) from San HQ (PS6500)
I often get randomly some warning messages from SAN HQ : [ID: 1.15] Warning: An incompatibility has been detected between the version of SupportAssist installed on the group and the version available...
View ArticleVSM for VMware ESXi Server 6.0
Anybody know if Is there an ETA for an updated VSM (Virtual Storage Manager) that supports VMware 6.0?
View ArticleEQL PS4100 individual disk check??
OK...so here's the setup.The EQL unit here is, well it was at the time, out of warranty and had no support. A disk failed, but it was one of the disks marked as a hotspare. As we had no support it was...
View ArticleAdd space to replication reserve on Equallogic PS4100
I have 2 locations, my main site and a colocation.On the main site, I have 3 volumes that I want to replicate. The total size of these volumes equals 5.4 terabytes.I want to reserve space on my...
View ArticleFS NAS CLUSTER cannot join domain
FS 7x seriestrying to join a nas cluster to the domain and im getting "cluster already exist in the domain , leave the domain and join again"i see no traces for it in AD , and in group manager it...
View ArticleINFO iscsi session target -- was closed -- logout request received from the...
today all of a sudden equallogic group manager its getting flooded with iscsi session target -- was closed -- logout request received from the initatior iscsi session target -- was closed -- iscsi...
View ArticleHIT for RHEL 7
When is support comming for RHEL 7 based installations ? We are getting ready to turn up a RHEL 7 based datacenter and we can't seem to find a HIT for Equallogic
View ArticleEqualLogic PS6100XV SAN Compatibility with Cisco 3650X
Hi,I'm currently updating the network infrastructure for my ISCSI SAN. We have the EqualLogic PS6100XV and are considering upgrading our switches to a Cisco Catalyst 3750X or 3650X. Based on the...
View ArticleCan I Duplicate VSM automated tasks for moving Volumes?
Hello-I absolutely love the VSM for creating and destroying datastores. It is very labor-saving when it comes to deleting volumes.Here's my problem: I have 6 clusters, with 5 ESXi hosts in each...
View ArticleHow can i rethin a dynamic volume striped over 3 LUN's ?
Hi,i have a question regarding rethinning of LUNs. On my windows server 2008 R2 i have the HIT kit installed, and i can rethin a LUN that contains a single formatted drive.But, i also have a very large...
View ArticleRecoverable memory error
I have an EqualLogic PS4000E and I received this in an email:-----------------------------------------WARNING event from storage array member1subsystem: SP [secondary] event: 19.3.1 time: Fri...
View ArticleMPIO failure during reconfiguration request for target
Hello,Recently we're receiving MPIO errors.It starts with this error:Subject: ASM: MPIO Page Table Download Error - iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-f70253d0b-8040000004f4e9bd-cq01 on host...
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