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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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Using Dell Omreport on Dell attached storage

Hi I have a Dell Powervault 1220 mounted to a PERC H800 (/dev/sda) I'm really confused on how to use dells monitoring software, srvadmin. According to this question, I should use omreport. However, what is the controller id I'm looking for?…
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PowerVault MD 1000 raid 5 with three physical disks one failed and virtual disk become "failed"

I have a Power Vault MD 1000 which includes a RAID 5 array (I inherited it), open manage server administrator reports the structure as RAID 5. Today one of the three disks failed. I would have expected it to become "Degraded". But I got failed…
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Use 'normal' disks in a Dell Powervault?

I want to build a two node rack, with one node being high compute intensity and one node used to store the results. I am not concerned with data integrity. When I look at the cost for 'nearline' disks (not sure what that means) I am shocked that…
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Dell MUMC: How to shut down servers if any one of two UPSes loses power?

We have here two Dell R720 running ESXi (managed with vCenter). Each is connected to the same PowerVault MD3660i storage array. However the two servers are powered by different UPSes. One UPS (UPS1) for Server1 + MD array, one UPS (UPS2) for the…
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Dell PowerVault MD1000 + PN939

I have a Dell PowerVault MD1000 with all hard drives damaged. I want to know if it is possible to replace the SAS drives with SATA drives + PN939 or similar interposer. I know that SATA drives are not so performant but performance is not an issue. …
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PowerVault MD3000 Password Reset Console Password

I need to reset the password on a Dell PowerVault MD3000. I have the necessary password reset cable and am able to get to the point where I am prompted for the "password from Dell Technical Support" (see…
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md3222i only single data stream?

We've setup an md3220i SAN to be used against vmware 5.1. When inside a VM on this SAN we tried copying a file multiple times creating multiple/sessions streams. When doing this, it's only the latest stream that runs and all others are paused…
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Disk status on Dell Powervault 1200 attached storage?

I have a RHEL box with direct attached storage (Dell Powervault 1200) containing 10 disks in RAID 10. There are two logical volumes set up on the server. I am wondering how to determine the health of the drives from the operating system. How can…
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Howo to get Multipath IO with Dell MD3600i into active/active setup?

I'm desperately trying to improve performance of my SAN connection. Here's what i have: [root@xnode1 dell]# multipath -ll mpath1 (36d4ae520009bd7cc0000030e4fe8230b) dm-2 DELL,MD36xxi [size=5.5T][features=3 queue_if_no_path pg_init_retries…
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What SFPs can be used with Dell MD36x0f storage?

I've not found any information about used SFPs and supported cable length (which is what I actually want to know). Online configuration wizard does not allow to choose SFP type, only quantity. One presentation that I have states that maximum cable…
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Read LUN from dell SAN with a PC on linux

We are currently using a md3000i DELL SAN server with a RAID1. I would like to access the information on one disk from a workstation. The hard disk contains 2 LUN but I can only access the first one. Any ideas how to access the other LUN ? It is…
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Install SAS/SATA backplane in Dell PowerVault 220S

Is the backplane of a Dell PowerVault 220S svc tag 3sdpcb1 (14 drive, 80 pin hot swap scsi) upgradeable to a SAS/SATA backplane & controller card replacement? The unit already seems to be quite modular, with slide-out replaceable scsi…
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Windows not showing full DEll MD3000i volume size

I have a DEll MD3000i that connects directly to a Dell R610 server (with Windows 2008 standard OS) via the iSCSI connections. The MD3000i shows 5TB in the Disk Management Console, but windows only shows it as 4TB. Any idea of how to get windows to…
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Dell Powervault MD3000 - Not sharing Files between servers

I'm a developer who has to set up a Dell Powervault MD3000 due to lack of resources. I have connected the Powervault to 2 Dell 2950 servers via the SAS cables. I performed the setup using Dell's MD Storage Manager software (4 disks, RAID 5 with hot…
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Dell PowerVault MD3420 - controller cache issues

My MD3420 has a data corruption issue. Some of the Windows VM disks are shown as RAW instead of NTFS now. I've looked into the MD event logs and found these disturbing entries : RAID controller module reset its alternate Cache recovered unwritten…
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