graceful shutdown of PS series eql array
Couple of questions, different but related- is there a way to prgramatically shutdown and equallogic box?- similarly, are there tools to gracefully shutdown both and eql array and r710s from a dell ups...
View ArticleBest way to Backup FS7600 containers / data
hellois there a way to backup the data in a container CIFS " FS7600" in backup exec as a file server not using NDMP protocol ? since i;m having issues with NDMP it connects and reads the data but...
View ArticleBest NICs for Equallogics
Hi,I was wondering if any one had any NIC recommendations for best performance on the Equallogic SANs. I've read that Broadcom NICs don't perform well. Wondering if any one else had experienced that....
View ArticleHelp with Linux native multipathing
Hi I'm looking for guidance on configuring native multipathing for EQL (multipathd, /etc/multipath.conf). I know the HIT kit does all this for you, but currently it doesn't support RHEL6.7. I found a...
View ArticleHelp with WIndows 2012 Multipathing
is there a way for me to force/specify what IP my iSCSI initiators get connected to?Instead of allowing the software to 'pick the best" one after i point windows iscsi initiator to the SAN group ip?I...
View Articledrive firmware update failing
I have a drive that I got with KD03 on it and I need to update it to KD0A the problem is the firmware tool I had to do this I ran when I was on 5.2.6 and now I'm on 5.2.10.The message I get back for...
View ArticleDownload Equallogic Simulator
Hi,i want download simulator for equallogic where i must download? please help...Thanks youBest Regards
View ArticlePS6010 rebuild
I have a PS6010 with a type 10 controller. I have never logged into this system. The drives were removed and wiped. I replaced the drives, now I need to connect and rebuild the system. I looked for a...
View ArticleML6000 on Esxi
Hi team, i would like to connect our fibre channel ML6000 on ESXi host. I know its not officially supported, but i know there are some workarounds, any suggestions?Kind regards.
View ArticleSAN HQ test email
I am receiving test emails from SANHQ about once a month. I thought this was a one time thing but I have received about 3 since installing SAN HQ. I didn't see any setting in the alerts config that...
View ArticleSpace utilization reported
Hello,SAN HQ and the EqualLogic Group Manager report only 10% left space on one of our EqualLogic 6210xs volumes. We have two VMWare VMs with thin disks residing on that volume. No snapshot space used...
View ArticleSANHQ 3.1 Install Problems
I cant get 3.1 to install on 2012R2 because it tries unsuccessfully to install .NET 4.5 which is already installed. Is anyone having this problem and/or did you get past it?
View ArticleSAN HQ incorrectly reporting usage errors
We recently had a round of proactive maintenance which upgraded our PS6200 SANs to Firmware V8.1.1 and our SAN HQ to version 3.1.0.7890.SAN HQ is now throwing error 4.2 (at caution, warning and...
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SanHQ 3.1 - Critical in-use space alert
Just upgraded to 3.1 from 3.0.x. A thin-provisioned volume that is less than 80% full keeps generating an alert that the volume is over 99% full:Critical 4.2 01/12/2016 03:21 8 hr 31 m. Active...
View ArticleShrinking old group
HiJust a quickie.I have 5 members in an old group, they only have 1 controller attached and are on FW 6.0 - Uptime is like 3 years or something crazy so nobody has touched them and they have had no...
View ArticleUnable to disable alert 2.2 in SAN HQ 3.1.0
Hi,I have recently installed SAN HQ 3.1.0 and now I am getting space alerts which we never received on our old 3.0.1 installation. I understand that these would be useful for many instances but in...
View Articleequallogic ps6100 - how to read .dgo files
Hi all,We have a nagios check about our equallogic ps6100x.Health overall criticalWe have Seg_x.dgo files.how can we read them ?
View ArticleAnnouncement: Updated Configuration guide for RHEL v6/v7 with Dell PS Series...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Configuration Guide for Dell Storage PS Series ArraysThis configuration guide provides information about integrating the RHEL 6 and 7 operating environments with the Dell...
View ArticleHelp with Linux native multipathing
Hi I'm looking for guidance on configuring native multipathing for EQL (multipathd, /etc/multipath.conf). I know the HIT kit does all this for you, but currently it doesn't support RHEL6.7. I found a...
View ArticleSAN HQ Alert 4.2 in-use space on volume
I have recently been reconfiguring a client EQL group (1 PS6100, 1 PS4000). As part of clean-up and modernizing of an older ESXi environment, VMs were storage vMotioned from 4000 to 6100 and the4000...
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