Mixing EQL and VSAN for VM migration
HiOur PS's are getting a bit old now, we are considering moving to VSAN (vxRail) in the future across both our DC's. Is it supported to have external EQL groups attached to VSAN nodes for easy...
View ArticleSecurity Updates
I have been reading through the changelogs in Release Notes for the different firmware version and I have noticed that they don't provide technical information related to security updates. Is there...
View ArticleNFS4 ACLs and the FS7610
Hello,I have an Equallogic FS7610 (firmware: 4.0.300098) on which I'm testing out NFS4 ACLs. I'm seeing some strange behavior that I wanted to reach out to the community regarding.I'm keeping this...
View ArticleShut down members in a pool
Hello,Next week we're going to upgrade switches where our Equallogics are connected to so they need to be shutdown. I'd like to ask you few things about shutdown procedure of Equalogic members in a...
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 ArticleVM random disconnects from EQL group
Hello. We have a 2-node file server cluster (2 virtual machines running WS2016, I know, not officially supported by HIT Kit yet) running on a WS2016 Hyper-V host. Both these VMs connect directly to...
View ArticleEqualLogic 10Gb
I am posting this in a few places in hopes of a quick and knowledgeable response. We have 4 EqualLogic PS6000, all 1Gb. We are bringing in our first PS6210 10Gb. The issue is we have Cisco Nexus 3K and...
View ArticleEqualLogic VSM and VMware 6.0 and VVOL
We are looking at the Dell VSM and virtual volumes within VMware 6.0. After having created a volume and then deleting it I have some orphan Access Policies listed in Group Manager for iSCSI initiators...
View ArticleMove PS4100 Management IPs to new subnet
I need to move the management IP and eth2 (mgmt) on our PS4100 to another subnet. The eth2 IP is 192.168.34.10 and the Management IP is 192.168.34.9, both of which are on our primary LAN.The group IP...
View ArticleEquallogic SAN
I have an old Equallogic san that has a member that died(1 of 2). When I try to remove it, I receive the message, "Call Dell Customer Support" for assistance in deleting an offline member." Why??? I...
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...
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vSphere 6, VVOL and Unmap
Hi,Currently we're testing with vSphere 6, MEM v1.3, VSM 4.5 and PS v8.0.2 on a PS4000E. After a few bumps with the deployment everything is finally running now.One of the new features we really wanted...
View ArticleDifferent paths for volumes in the same group
Hello Guys, I have one PS group with to PS6210(1 PS6210E and 1 PS6210X) I have two new volumes without data and in my ESXi 6,0 I can see one volume with 6 paths active and other volume only 2 active...
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How do I utilise 2 active NICs on the PS series
We are temporarily going to use a PS series Array by DELL for the SAN in our ESXI environment. It has 2 NICs per controller(there are 2 controllers). We therefore have 4 NICs, which are in redundant...
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 ArticleVM random disconnects from EQL group
Hello. We have a 2-node file server cluster (2 virtual machines running WS2016, I know, not officially supported by HIT Kit yet) running on a WS2016 Hyper-V host. Both these VMs connect directly to...
View ArticleEqualLogic 10Gb
I am posting this in a few places in hopes of a quick and knowledgeable response. We have 4 EqualLogic PS6000, all 1Gb. We are bringing in our first PS6210 10Gb. The issue is we have Cisco Nexus 3K and...
View ArticleQuestions regarding SanHQ updates, and Client, vs Client and Server...
Good Afternoon Everyone!Please forgive me ahead of time as i'm still relatively new to EQL and SanHQ. My question is related to an update to SANHQ, v3.0.2 to v3.2, that i am currently entertaining...
View ArticleMixing EQL and VSAN for VM migration
HiOur PS's are getting a bit old now, we are considering moving to VSAN (vxRail) in the future across both our DC's. Is it supported to have external EQL groups attached to VSAN nodes for easy...
View ArticleSecurity Updates
I have been reading through the changelogs in Release Notes for the different firmware version and I have noticed that they don't provide technical information related to security updates. Is there...
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