ESXi 5.5 and Compellent iSCSI best practices
We have ESXi 5.5 and Compellent SC8000. Both controllers have IP-address on different subnet I have two VMkernel ports on different subnets. Both on a different vSwitch.Dell states port bindng should...
View Article2 disks with errors, replace
Good Morning.In our corporate MATRIX (EqualLogic PS6100E) 2 disks has broke down, model MK2001TRKB. We have 12 disks (same model) in RAID 50. I know that the disks are no longer on sale. Could you...
View ArticleDELL PS 6100E, 3 disks with errors
Good Morning.In our corporate matrix 2 disks has broke down, model MK2001TRKB. We have 12 disks (same model) in RAID 50. I know that the disks are no longer on sale. Could you advise me on what disks...
View ArticlePS6210X with 24 1.2TB SAS disks in RAID 50, how many RAID 5 sets?
We have a PS610X with 24 1.2TB SAS disks (10.000 RPM, model HUC101212CSS600).The unit is currently configured in RAID 50 and has two spares. How many RAID 5 sets are actually configured? Is it 2x11 or...
View ArticleSanHQ in-use space alerts differ from alerts in EQL group manager
Hi,i SanHQ 3.1 i am receiving a lot of in-use alerts that do not match with the volume usage that i am looking at in the EQL group manager.the alert in SanHQ is giving me a 92.68% usage alert on a...
View ArticleBest Practice inquiry: storage tiering with differing disk types
Hello, We recently received a new Equallogic SAN, and I am trying to decide how to implement. Our first unit (currently only member in a pool) is a PS4100 with 24x600GB 10K SAS. The new unit is a...
View ArticleEquallogic used space after rethinning differs in OS from EQL group view
HI,i have a PS4100 storage backend that serves a 1TB thin volume LUN to a Windows 2008R2 server. The volume is formatted with 64Kb NTFS blocksizeIn windows the Host Integration Toolkit is installed,...
View ArticleBit rot?
How likely is the chance of encountering bit rot (at volume level)?Does EqualLogic have any bit rot detection (and repair)?Is there any information on the internals of EqualLogic units, file system,...
View ArticleDELL PS4100E ISCSI/VDI
DELL PS4100E (lSI/VDI(device work)+++++++++++++++++++++++++warning message receving ?==========================amount of in use snap-shot space is above the warning levelyou can increase the...
View ArticleEQL ps-m4110 volume provisioning
HiI am doing support to one of our customers and he wants to atach a volume from the EQL directly to the VM.These is the scenario2 m630 vmware 5.52 EQL m4110@ datasore provisoned to vcenter o 3tb...
View ArticleEquallogic PS6000x Raid Array without all 16 Drives
I have an Equallogic PS6000x that is no longer under warranty. We are using it for less critical data. One of the 16 600GB SAS drives is bad. Rather than buying a new Drive I wanted to drop the array...
View ArticleEquallogic PS4000 burning out replacement drives
We've got a PS4000 in our environment which had a drive go bad. I purchased a replacement drive from a reseller. The drive was the same make and model, but contained a different firmware on the...
View ArticleQuestions about retention period of SACL Audit Log (FS7600-FluidFSv4)
Hello,We need to save SACL audit log for a year.However, I couldn't find the setting of the retention period.I have two questions. 1.)Is there a way to modify of retention period? 2.)What is the...
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 ArticlePS6100 Volume In-Use space question
We have a PS6100 SAN and we are running into some issues with in-use space. I have read all about how the SAN writes in blocks and once a block is dirty it can no longer be seen as available space. I...
View ArticleDell VSM 4.0.2.1 SAN Replication Randomly Locks up.
We are running Vsphere client 5.5.0 build 1474107 and Vsphere VCenter Server 5.5.0 build 1476327 on 3 hosts (two R720's and one T710) We are using a PS6100 EQL SAN at our main branch and a PS4100 at...
View ArticlePS6000 drives degaussed - showing as failed
Hello all,I picked up a used EqualLogic PS6000 and the drives had been labeled as "degaussed" when I acquired it. All of the drives are showing as failed when the system initializes. I have tried...
View ArticleSnapshot created by mistake
A new lun was created and the snapshot reserve was set to 100%. I don't want to perform snapshots for this lun and want to get rid of it and reclaim the space. If I change the snapshot reserve to 0%...
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