Home LAB: Can I use Type 7 Controllers in a PS6010 Chassis?
I purchased a PS6010 Chassis for my home lab and after trying to get a reasonably priced Type 10 Controller and being unsuccessful I have purchased a Type 7 as it is my understanding that both of these...
View ArticlePS 4100 new raid 10 with different disks
Hello,we bought 12 new disks for a ps 4100 who have an existent raid 10 with 12 disks x 900 goDell say to us 900 go are not available only 1.2 to.we decide to buy it but the question is : if i plug 12...
View ArticleBest Practices on Adding and removing members
I have 2 x PS6210 arrays i will be adding to the group and 2 x 6010 arrays i want to delete from the group. I was wondering if it is best practice to add the two new arrays, wait for the group to...
View Articlefailover a controller on an equallogic array
I want to fail controller 0 to controller 1 on a production equallogic array (during a maintenance window). Is there a way to failover a controller without having to pull power on the...
View ArticleEqalLogic Ps6100XV connect through P2P
Hi Dell We are using EqalLogic Ps6100XV San in our company & i have some doubt for how can connect san through P2P line,so i thought i ask from this Community ,My scenario is we have suing two...
View ArticleReduce Volume Reserve
I have a total of 30.34TB of storage. Of that, 25.36TB is the Volume reserve. I'm not talking the Snapshot reserve. Is it possible to reduce this Volume reserve to open up storage space to create...
View ArticlePS 4100 new raid 10 with different disks
Hello,we bought 12 new disks for a ps 4100 who have an existent raid 10 with 12 disks x 900 goDell say to us 900 go are not available only 1.2 to.we decide to buy it but the question is : if i plug 12...
View ArticleEqualligic PS400E Time of Day Batterie is low
which Batterie must by change ? Time-of-day clock battery voltage is lowor is Controller bad?Thanks for Info
View ArticlePS6010 No 10GB Uplink
I have tried numerous SFP+ from different vendors even purchased new 2CM32 Twinax Cables but I still do not get a link. Is there something I am missing, maybe a no shut command or something. I am...
View ArticleVMWare two groups - IQN issues possibly
I have two EqualLogic groups, two modular arrays in a chassis in one group, and two external arrays in another. The chassis blades are VMWare hosts, using that storage as VM storage. I've recently...
View ArticleHome LAB: Can I use Type 7 Controllers in a PS6010 Chassis?
I purchased a PS6010 Chassis for my home lab and after trying to get a reasonably priced Type 10 Controller and being unsuccessful I have purchased a Type 7 as it is my understanding that both of these...
View ArticleDrive not approved for array
We have a PS5000e that went out of warranty a couple of years ago, and I've set it up to host scratch volumes for our terminal servers. One of the drives failed, so we replaced with the same Hitachi...
View ArticleReduce Volume Reserve
I have a total of 30.34TB of storage. Of that, 25.36TB is the Volume reserve. I'm not talking the Snapshot reserve. Is it possible to reduce this Volume reserve to open up storage space to create...
View ArticleDell Equallogic MEM 1.4 VUM Error "invalid vendor code"
Here is a fix for the following error message in VUM: "Invalid vendor code del in patch metadata, another vendor code with different capitalization already exists in database. Check the Update Manager...
View ArticlePS6010 No 10GB Uplink
I have tried numerous SFP+ from different vendors even purchased new 2CM32 Twinax Cables but I still do not get a link. Is there something I am missing, maybe a no shut command or something. I am...
View ArticleAdding a new ps6210 - can evacuation be done before updating firmware?
Good afternoon AllI have a pool of 2 PS62100 and I want to add a 3rd; I have some very latency sensitive servers on my network and SAN. Is it possible to add the new unit (if it has the latest...
View ArticleProper PS6100 Shutdown and Restart Procedure
We have a VMWare data center running ESXi 5.5 with 4 hosts, 10-15 VMs on each host, and 2 EqualLogic PS6100's. We are moving our Hosts, PS6100's, switches, etc. to a new hosting facility soon. I think...
View ArticleDrive not approved for array
We have a PS5000e that went out of warranty a couple of years ago, and I've set it up to host scratch volumes for our terminal servers. One of the drives failed, so we replaced with the same Hitachi...
View ArticlePS6210XS SSD only volume
Hello,We plan to use PS6210XS and want to create SSD volumes for particular database tables.Is it possible that we create RAID with only SSD disk and create volumes ?If so,how can we configure storage...
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