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Dell's PowerVault line covers several data storage and backup devices.

The PowerVault brand from Dell encompasses directly-attached disk enclosures (like the MD1000 series and MD3000 series), network-attached storage devices (like the NX series), iSCSI and Fibre Channel disk enclosures (like the MD3000i series and MD3000f series), and a range of data backup products (like the DL400 disk backup appliance or ML6010 tape library).

Since Dell acquired EqualLogic, they have used the EqualLogic brand for their high-end data storage offerings and retained PowerVault for their low- and mid-range products.

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Dell PowerVault 122T change from Sequential Mode to Random mode - how?

I have 4 PowerVault 122T tape drives. Three of them say SEQ on the front lcd screen. One does not. I'm using Backup Exec 2010 R3 to restore data from old tapes. I have 2 tape drives connected to a Dell PowerEdge 2600 and the other 2 connected to…
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MD1000 + PERC 5/E SATA III support? Interposer on sata?

Does Dell MD1000 + perc5/e support SATA 3 HDDs? Will I need interposer for my tray/caddy to support sata II/III hdds? Thanks in advance!
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Dell Poweredge 2850 with (2) attached Powervault 220s will not boot

I have a Dell Poweredge 2850, which has an additional PERC3 PCI RAID controller. The controller has two Powervault 220s's connected to it, each with 14 143GB drives. (Also has the built in PERC4 controller with the built in drives attached that…
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MD3200i Slow Performance and Queue Depth

Read performance on our SAN is slow under certain workloads. When we compare this to some local storage, we find the local storage performing 2x as fast. The SAN performs well with a high Queue Depth, and poorly with a low queue depth. However,…
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Dell MD3000, MD1000 and 2950

I have a Dell 2950 with MD3000, MD1000 ; Suddenly the I have lost all drives on both of the enclosures and all drives on the MD3000/1000 are blinking, but only ONE Light on each disk, not 2 Lights. I have tried dell doc and can't seem to find this…
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md3000i : recover data from healthy unplugged hard disk but with deleted configuration on the array

I have a question for an MD3000i SAN expert : We had a RAID with 2 disks on a MD3000i DELL SAN. We deleted the configuration on the storage array without the disks of this RAID configuration plugged inside. Now we put back the disks inside the array…
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Poor MD3000i read performance (for one controller, but not the other)

We have an MD3000i array accessed by three separate servers (all blade servers accessing through chassis nic's). Controller 1 (both Ports 0 and 1) are linked to Server A. Servers B and C (both with substantially less activity than Server A) are…
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Dell MD3000 - Resizing a virtual disk

I've replaced some drives to our MD3000 with bigger ones. These currently store database files used in a SQL Server 2005 cluster running on Windows Server 2003. Now, we replaced the smaller hard drives with new bigger ones and let the array get…
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Upgrading drives on a MD3000

Our MD3000 array is getting full as our databases are growing and we need more spaces. Currently, we use a MD3000 with a two-servers Windows 2003 cluster and 15x 73GB SAS drives. Disk groups are configured in RAID1 of two drives. The approach we are…
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Dell Powervault ME4 (ME4024): unattended shutdown possible?

I'm rather new in this world of SAN devices/ESXi hypervisors and stuff. Some years ago we had had physical servers with internal storage connected to a USB/LAN UPS and whenever he had a power loss we would first trigger a clean server shutdown to…
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Amber light on Powervault md3060e

While doing maintenance on another server I noticed an amber light on one draw of a Powervault md3060e (linked to a Poweredge r720d). There is no amber light for the drives of the draw. Every drives are OK according to the RAID controller. I have…
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DAS with MD3420 or iSCSI with MD3820i

Would there be a significant difference between these 2 setups? 2 esxi hosts connected MD3420 via SAS cables and HBA 2 esxi hosts connected to MD3820i via CAT6 cables without switch. How much will the iSCSI be slower with a 10G switch in…
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DAS and iSCSI together

We have an existing setup of 1G iSCSI composed of 2 switches, couple MD3220i and a few Dell servers. We need to add extra servers and storage and I am leaning towards DAS with MD3420 and 3 Dell servers. I understand the limitation that it can only…
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Dell MD1200 (6gb/s jbod enclosure) and 12 Gb/s drives

For reasons too embarrassing and frustrating to blather about, I am the proud owner of a Dell MD1200 enclosure and 12 ST4000NM0014 4TB Seagate drives (short story: I thought they were ST4000NM0023's). The drives show as 475Gb units with both the…
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Replacing a predicted to fail SAS drive in a Dell MD1220

I have 24 disk enclosure using RAID 5 with 1 hot swap. Here is what it looks like in Dell's OpenManage Software. As you can see one of the disks is predicted to fail. I have a replacement disk with the exact same specifications. Is it as simple as…
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