MEM 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 ArticlePS5000E Alert Problem
Hi folks,I inherited an Equallogic PS5000E recently and it had a bad disk. I replaced the drive and in group manager everything looks great. All disks, except the new spare, are green and I see no...
View ArticleEquallogic & large virtual file shares. 4TB+
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...
View ArticleCreating multiple drives on 2tb x 4 RAID5 configured disk on Dell Precision...
I am installing windows 7 on 2tb x 4 RAID5 configured disk, but unable to create multiple partitions on it.
View ArticleSimultaneous IQN connections
I have some non-clustered Windows terminal server VMs running in vmware on an EQ group (ps6000 and ps6210xs). The VMs have iscsi connections to data volumes on the EQ. I'm restricting volume access by...
View ArticleFail over process dell equal logic ps6210 boxes
Hi all,I have a question regarding those Dell Equal Logic PS6210 Boxes. I have implemented three boxes which are joined in a group and running in auto tearing one of them is SSD and other two are SAS...
View Articleps disk management
I have 24 1 tb drives in my array. it is set to RAID 10. it says I have 9.59 TB space is it possible all my disks are not initialized? How can I verify? It seems I should have more space.
View ArticleDell LEGO Server!
We just created a server out of LEGO using an old Dell 2U blade…and we think it’s pretty cool. Let me know what you think!Video - www.youtube.com/watchPics - https://www.flickr.com/photos/smartfileInfo...
View ArticleDell Compellent Uptime Report (SLA)
Hello,We have two CT-SC8000 arrays and two CT-SC040 arrays.I want to know how to get monthly Uptime report for this array. So that we can know and compare it with SLA.Thanks
View ArticleWhen is support coming for RHEL 7 based installations? I see in the post...
When is support coming for RHEL/ORACLE 7/7.1 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 ArticleSMIS Support
HI can the Equallogic Storage arrays be managed using MS VMM via the SMIS protocol?Is this supported?Thanks.
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PS6000e performance
Hi,Ive been doing database import on the volume which is on PS6000e unit and I experienced slow performance. I do even know where to start for looking into problem, but I think 270 IOPS is kind of slow...
View ArticlePS4100 disk replacement
Hi all,few days ago I found a disk fail on my PS4100.I have a new disk but I can't add it to the system because I did a stupid mistake.I exctracted the disk more than 1 hour so the system put the slot...
View ArticleDB9 vs RJ45
I have an EqualLogic PS 5000e that I need to setup via the serial port. I bought a serial to usb cable but putty isn't connecting. Then I realized the package said it was a DB9 cable, will this still...
View ArticleSMI-S Protocol Support for Equallogic PS Series SANs
Hello, I was wondering if there is a timeline set for this feature to be available for PS series SAN. I recently purchased a PS 6100X SAN and looking to configure it with Azure Site Recovery. ASR...
View ArticleEquallogic & large virtual file shares. 4TB+
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...
View ArticleDell SMcli show storageArray HealthStatus
Hi,i am currently working on a monitoring solution for Dell storage using Nagios. Is there any documentation on the non-optimal messages? I am hoping to distinguish those error message in terms of...
View ArticlePS6210 reboot
Have a group containing 3 members (3-PS6210's). These contain iSCSI connections to all my VMWare volumes. Need to reboot one of the member SAN's. Can I just reboot it while in production or will...
View ArticleSMIS Support
HI can the Equallogic Storage arrays be managed using MS VMM via the SMIS protocol?Is this supported?Thanks.
View ArticleEquallogic PS6000 Member free space vs Pool free Space
Hi,I have a single member group, the member disk utilization details are total member capacity 12.22TB, used by volumes 8.17TB snaps and replicas 90meg and member free space 4.04 TB. This varies widely...
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