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• Update firmware on AN Equallogic SAN on a cluster

  I'm new to Equallogic and need to update the firmware on a PS 6000 SAN that is in a cluster with TWO of SEM, that the firmware needs go to v6.0.7 to v7.0.5

  My questions: I was told that I need to evacuate the SAN (migrate everything out of him) to the second SAN in the cluster, so there is no risk on everything that's wrong in the virtual machine, while the firmware update coming.

  Where am I supposed to go? I checked the workgroup SAN Equallogic and VMWare vsphere GUI Manager interface, and I don't see a place where I can do.

  Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

  We assume that your EQLs have two controllers on the right?  EQL use a controller Active and standby and in the event of a failure of the controller failover took about 10 sec. To survive this event or need a propper configuration of your phys. Switch, hosts and virtual machines. Just follow the installation and best practices.

  Then... a firmware perform the same type of failover. From an update FW flashing the standby controller first, then asks for a 'restart' which performs failover. That the 'new' standby also will Flash.

  All our EQL + VMware configurations remain 10 seconds (4 pings are missing) breakage.

  If you wish to cancel a member of a pool for maintenance it takes something like that

  -Both of your members are in the same pool

  -You create a new and "move a member" of the existing pool in the new. If there is enough space left all volumes is automatically migrated to the existing Member and the last in the pool

  -If the Member is now in your pool maintenance you can perform the FW update

  Its fully transparent and non interruptible for hosts/VMs. But takes a looooonnnnng time finshed.

  If your members are in different pools already and assuming that enough space

  -Use 'move the volume' to transfer a volume of a pool to another. You need to check if there is enough space left

  -Another method would be to activate SyncRep for all Volumes and perform a switch over. If a member holds all the SyncAlternates you can put paused the SyncRep and perform the update of FW.

  In the first 7 months of this year we perform 3 (4?) FW upgrade of our 11 EQLs that currently spans 7.0.6. The process time vacuate trust has never been an option for us.

  The FW comes with a PDF file on how to perform the upgrade and contains some notes so please take a look inside.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• EqualLogic mirror

  Hello

  I'm actually very new to Equallogic and just provided 2unit of Dell Equallogic PS4110E with 6x3TB hard drives to a customer.

  For some reason, they are not convinced of the reliability of the product. I tried to convince them accordingly but they just don't buy it. Seems they were burned on some other 3 letters SAN providers and now nothing is totally reliable.

  Anyway, they want to set up the 2 units as follows:

  1. the two units RAID5 on 6disks.

  2. "mirrored" 2 units.

  3 have you unique access to the San for their VMWare farm.

  The basic concern seems to be that a whole unit failed, they will always be able to transparently access data. Sort of a RAID51 configuration. The system will expose a single LUN to be mounted in the battery of VMWare servers and then sliced and diced there as necessary.

  I have tried to capture manuals for units but can't seem to find them. I had the customer to register for a support account, but after 2 weeks it seems that their account is still pending approval.

  This seems to be based on the replication configuration, but I don't see how the two replication partners can be treated using a single virtual IP address.

  Any pointers will be extremely useful!

  Thank you.

  Daniel

  Point 1: When you set the RAID policy for a member of the group, you cannot select specific drives, the policy is for the entire Member and includes all the disks to that Member.

  Point 2: If two tables are installed in the same group, you can put each Member in a separate pool and use the function SyncRep mirrored volumes (not the entire table).  Or, if the two members are installed in different groups, you can use replication to replicate volumes on a recovery site.

  Point 3: Yes it is possible, you must correctly configure the VMware system for this, the links below show you how to proceed.

  The documents for the configuration of the matrix, switches, and servers are here: en.community.dell.com/.../3615.rapid-equallogic-configuration-portal-by-sis.aspx

  You also want to see the configuration guide (it is quick access to the view of everything you need to create an EqualLogic SAN iSCSI): http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/2639.equallogic-configuration-guide.aspx

  There are also several public documents here:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/TechCenter/storage/w/wiki/2632.storage-infrastructure-and-solutions-team-publications.aspx

  Regarding access to the support site, the customer must contact: [email protected] to speed up access to the web site.

  -joe

• Migration of servers to new host and SAN

  Hello

  Current configuration:

  2 x ESXi servers, local storage, share nothing.  License of VMWare Essentials

  New configuration:

  3 x SAN Eqllogic, ESXi servers. Essential Plus VMWare license

  I would like to make the transition to the new configuration with minimal downtime, we have invited a few large (> 1 TB) on one of the servers and I don't want them to be disconnected for more than a few minutes, then a migration cold is out of the question.

  I had a thought that I could put the license key more on the old servers and 1 new servers, set the new SAN on the old servers, use VMWare replication to replicate virtual machines among the old servers to the new server/storage, and then perform a recovery.

  I would then remove this old Vsphere server, add a new server and transfer the license, then perform the same task on the old server to 2nd.

  Once it is finished I remove the old server 2, add the new 3rd server, and move the license.

  Can someone tell me if this is possible, or suggest alternatives?

  Thank you

  Dean.

  Hi Dean,

  Replication (replication vSphere) VMware will be requires downtime when you are recovering from the old host to new host.

  How much time can you afford for downtime?

  The recovery process will turn off the source/protected VM on the current host (VM function how long it would normally take to perform a shutdown comments) and destination/recovery VM will be powered on to a new host (again, depends on VM normally, how long it would take for the operating system and services until then a normal diet on the process).

  vSphere replication requires vSphere Web Client and other requirements, as described here: 5.5 - replication requirements vSphere vSphere Documentation Centre

  You have a vCenter Server?
  What version of ESXi (and vCenter) do you use?

  If you don't have a vCenter Server yet, I suggest you install a vCenter server and add all the current 2 ESXi hosts + 1 new ESXi host.

  From there, you'll have an ESXi 3 host, then you can migrate current ESXi host for new.

  If you are using vSphere 5.1 + you can vMotion, even if the host do not have access to the same storage see this: library of vSphere 5.5 - Migration with vMotion in environments without storage shared

  Its quite simple, if you are using vSphere 5.1 +.

  -Make sure you have vcenter Server 5.1 + with vSphere Web Client

  -Add current hosts + 1 new hosts

  -Make sure the vMotion without requirement for shared storage are filled with VSphere 5.5 Documentation Center - requirements and restrictions for vMotion without Shared Storage

  -Perform vMotion without process Shared Storage of current host to the new host + local storage to SAN EqualLogic - you can start with small VM and VM less critical first if you are not sure.

  -Once all virtual machines have been migrated to the new host + EqualLogic SAN, you can do a maintenance on the current host mode, and then delete the vCenter Server (vSphere licenses will be retrieved)

  -Add the 2 remaining new hosts.

  If you are using vSphere 5.1 prior, you must present the SAN EqualLogic again 1 new host and current 2 hosts.

  Once current hosts can see the EqualLogic SAN, make a Storage vMotion (live migration records) local storage to the EqualLogic.

  For first migration vSphere 5.1, there are 2 ways that I can think of:

  1. with vMotion - without interruption

  There are certain requirements of configuration for vMotion work: Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5 - Migration with vMotion

  Make sure your classes and new hosts are run in the same processor / EVC mode or matrix, you can check it out here: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=cpu

  If they are on different EVC Mode, you can turn on the CEV on new hosts.

  The steps are:

  S ' ensure that virtual machines are in EqualLogic (you can use Storage vMotion)

  -Perform a vMotion from the current host to new host.

  -Once all virtual machines have been migrated, you can safely do a maintenance on the current host mode and remove the vCenter Server

  -Add the remaining 2 new hosts the vCenter.

  2. without vMotion - requires the interruptions of service commissioning

  It's cold migration but without migration of storage, must be less compared to downtime directly cold immigration to localdisk of shared storage.

  The steps are:

  S ' ensure that virtual machines are in EqualLogic (you can use Storage vMotion)

  -Turn off the virtual machines in the current hosts and migrate (cold) of the host-to-host former New (you can also drag the virtual computer and drop it to the new host).

  -Once all virtual machines have been migrated, you can safely do a maintenance on the current host mode and remove the vCenter Server

  -Add the remaining 2 new hosts the vCenter.

• Best survey practice: tiering with different types of storage drives

  Hello

  We recently received a new SAN Equallogic, and I am deciding the implementation. Our first unit (currently only one member in a swimming pool) is a PS4100 with 24x600GB 10K SAS. The new unit is a PS4210 with 12x4TB 7.2 K NL SAS.

  Should I leave units in separate classes in the same group and cut new LUNS? Should I add the PS4210 in the existing pool and use the Storage Tiering?

  I'm a little hesitant to how Storage Tiering will work, I read a little when the mixture of types of disks, storage tiering will be balanced on the ability, and most of the i/o load will hit the higher capacity of SAN.

  Any contribution is appreciated. The storage is used for the storage of data VMFS with vSphere 5.5 cluster. Run EQL firmware 8.1.0 on both units.

  Hello

  Either will work.   As a general rule, speaking of small members 10K / 15K mix with very large 7.2 K members RPM can reduce the effectiveness of the fastest disks.  As more data on the largest Member.  This is especially true if they carry the same RAID type.

  I would start with them in their own pools.  Later, you can merge two pools quite easily.  The other way is more complex.  Since you need to remove a member, leaving the data in the original pool.  Then you can move volumes of the new pool.

  Also, please check Dell TR1091.  It explains how to configure the storage w/EQL ESXi.

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../Download

  A small change that has not been added that TR is the NOOP_TIMEOUT value.  The document shows you how to change the LOGIN_TIMEOUT value to 60.  In this menu is the NOOP_TIMEOUT, which gets the value of 30 seconds.

  Finally, make sure that the virtual machines themselves are configured with their disk values set on 60 seconds Timeout.

  With the EQL Firmware download is a PDF entitled ' iSCSI initiator and optimize your SAN environment for high availability of the OS considerations "which explains how to make the necessary changes.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Too many spare disks when creating table

  I shall preface this by saying: I'm new on Equallogic San...

  I have a PS6100 with 16 drives of 2 TB.  When you perform the initial configuration on the table, it's from 4 disks as "rescue" any RAID level, I chose.  The option to right click on the drive and choose 'Add the disk to the RAID' is grayed out.

  Having 4 discs/8 TB of storage "spare" seems much too excessive.  I would like only 1 or 2 disk hot spares.  I don't know if there is a problem preventing the table of allowing them to be "online" or if there is a setting to specify the number of spare parts.  If a setting is enabled, I can't find it anywhere.

  Please let know us if this is normal or if there is anything I can do to get some of that extra space added to my table.

  Thank you!

  Hmmmm

  the old PS60x0 comes with 16x3.5. The PS61x0 and later as

  24 x 3.5 "

  12 x 3.5 "

  or 24 x 2.5 "

  IIRC it isn't so modell with 16 discs.

  "Deleted" Dell RAID5 Option in one of the last FW Version from the GUI, if a customer drives of 1 TB or more because the risk of failure of a disk doubles increases when you make the raid rebuild underway long with large disks.

  If you want to force the use of a RAID5 + spare, single, you must create the middle of raid from the command line.

  We use RAID50 for the older model 16 disk which means: usable discs = Total of discs - 4 (2 + a 2 rescue disk parity)

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• Evacuation of SAN

  I have bought a new 6100 Equallogic and wanted to become my SAN production and evacuate my older PS5000. I have the 6100 in the same group as the 5000 and he has just finished check whole raid and now has half of my 2 TB data and the 5000 has the other half. I noticed that the new array has approximately 32 connections ISCSI and the former table 57. These connections are the same on both sides? Or when I do the evacuation of all the remaining connections will move?

  Thank you

  Rick

  The number of connections per Bay is controlled by the network load balancing and may be different in the two Member States.  When you remove the Group PS5000, connections will be move to the members remaining in this pool.

  Advised to remove a member, was first to create a temporary pool (call it what you want), then first move the PS5000 on it.  Once in its own pool, you can remove the group.

  -joe

• Free EsxI - use with SAN

  Hello

  As a system administrator, we will began to plan the installation of our new servers and two new solutions Equallogic SAN. We bought two enterprise license of VMWare infrastructure (which was recommended through our hardware vendor).

  In our meetings, I have discussions with my Chief, why we do not use the free version of EsxI, because the business version is expensive. My hardware vendor has reported that us can' use the free version to store vmdk on the SAN files.

  I searched for information, but I couldn't find anything. Can anyone help me give some information why we should use the free edition instead of the Enterprise edition? Next to vmmotion, high availability, etc.

  THX

  The free version works perfectly with an Equallogic SAN.  What you get with the Enterprise version is the ability to use VMotion and HA and Virtual Center. Moreover, VMotion and HA require Virtual Center, so if your vendor sold you only licenses the company without a license of Virtual Center (also expensive), you're really at the point where there is virtually no difference between the Enterprise and the free version.

• Logical layout of Equallogic storage with new members pools

  In each of our server rooms, we currently have 2 Equallogic storage pools:

  K 10-1 GB (2 X 6100 X)

  K 7-1 GB (2 X 6100F)

  We just bought an additional PS6100E and a PS6100XS for each server room.

  Existing 6100F bays that we include 3 TB drives, and a new includes 4 TB drives. These berries is usually not much force exerted on them and are mostly used to map network shares or backups / replicas. Can anyone see a problem with the addition of the 4 TB 6100F s to this group?

  I was counting on the deployment of the 6100XS in its own pool, as the advice I read do not mix with other types of table.

  I am struggling to remember now, but you can specify a different to join pool a new Member of the group or do you always go in the default pool first?

  If it always goes to the default pool first, is there a way to change a new pool to become the default pool?

  Thank you

  Hello

  The 6100F can certainly be in the same group / pool without problem.  Data are distributed to members according to their relative sizes.  If a two pool members, where is 2 x else will have 2/3 of the data relative to the smallest Member.

  When you add a new Member is going to the default pool.  However, with a defined RAID policy it does not provide a capacity to this pool.   So after adding in the group, I suggest you then turn on the Ethernet ports, move it to the new pool, and then assign the RAID policy.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Add the new Equallogic system

  Hello

  We use 2 PS4000 systems in a group.  Now, we wanted to add additional capacity to the group, and it seems that we must add a PS6100 model, because the PS4xxx series can have 2 systems per group.

  What is the best way to develop our Equallogic system? PS4xxx systems can be added to a group of PS6100 lossless or start over?  Or does first to transfer all data in the system of PS6100 and reset and add the PS4xxx later?

  good documentation on this subject?

  Thanks in advance

  Tom

  Yes, you can add the additional PS6100, which will remove the limits of PS4000 configuration.

  You can add it as its own swimming pool and then move the volumes on the new Member, or put it in the same pool as the PS4000.

  First pass of the PS4000 at least 5.2.5 before adding in the PS6100.   Then proceed to PS6100 to make.  I think he's not coming with 5.2.5 installed.

  If you let me know what is the size / speed / RAID type of the PS4000 and what size/TPM in the PS6100 I can offer you some general tips.

  The Administrator's guide has information about the management of members and pools, there is also a report of tech Storage Tiering

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../19974554.aspx

  Kind regards

• S Q on putting in place new infrastructure to ESX and equallogic SAN

  Hi all

  I have installed recently 3 new servers ESX v4 and an equallogic ps4000x SAN. These are connected by 2 powerconnect switches dell 4524. If you want to criticize my configuration, I added attachments, detailing the layout. I would be interested if someone comments on my installation.

  In any case, I'm at the point where I can start server virtualization. What I'm not sure is the best way of ESX/VM configuration to take advantage of Equallogic's snapshot technology. We are likely to buy symantec backupexec agent in the future, so it makes sense to set them up properly now.

  I can't seem to find documents on how to set up so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? I will virtualize exchange and SQL servers among others.

  I anyone has suggestions or point me in the right direction, I would be very grateful.

  See you soon,.

  Huwy

  We use the last VE ASM, it is smooth, more schedule flexibility than the GUI EQL.  I've done some restorations to test virtual machines and data warehouses of data, on themselves, other stores etc., ASM has worked well.  The previous version looked a little awkward, but 2.0 allows you to selectively restore individual VMs, rather than an entire data store, so a great step forward in the old version.

  Please let us know the BackupExec works, we seek also to who.

• EqualLogic - how to level a new table before you add to the Group

  I have a new table which is v7 and I try to add a group of v8.  It won't join the group due to version incompatibility.  How to pass it to v8 so I can join the Group?  Thank you.

  Hello

  Create a new group with one member.  I wouldn't use the Remote Setup Wizard to do this.  Who sets policy RAID that requires you to wait that ends before you can upgrade the firmware.

  I would rather the serial port.  Then, you need to only configure port network and the new IP group.

  Once you answer the basic questions are the GrpName > cli prompt you can then transfer the kit to upgrade and update the firmware.

  Once you run the "update" process and restarted the table, reconnect and make sure it is in the new revision.  GrpName > show Member which will show.

  The CLI run "reset" to return unit to factory reset, and you can now add in your other group.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Module Extension Dell EqualLogic Multipathing v1.4 missing setup.pl

  The new v1.4 Dell EqualLogic Multipathing Module of Extension is missing setup.pl script.

  Hello

  Thank you.  A new package is created.  In the meantime, you can try the setup.pl v1.3...   Or use alternative methods to install it.

  Feel free to open a support on this file as well.   They can add you the question open with genius.

  Kind regards

  Don

• OpenStack on Equallogic

  You have the list of Openstack on Equallogic compatibility matrix?

  I want to know the recommended Firmware PS version information and supported model PS on Openstack, kilo, Liberty and Mitaka.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Hello

  Dell certifies OpenStack w/Equallogic.   This is the underlying software as Cinder, who does the work with storage arrays.  The driver uses the orders of EQL group CLI, the syntax has not changed, except for the new features.

  http://docs.OpenStack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/Dell-EqualLogic-driver.html

  https://www.rdoproject.org/storage/cinder/using-Dell-EqualLogic-for-cinder-with-RDO/

  He has no problem with the latest version of the firmware.  It is good to run something current, or at least near current in General.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Upgrade Equallogic HIT failure with error Kit 4.8 to 4.9

  During the process of upgrading the Dell EqualLogic 4.8.0, host integration tools we get an error message: Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your provider to support personal or package. Custom action error in script-2147024773 CleanDepriicatedShortcuts,: line 28, column 3,.

  Don't know what to say exectly. I tried a new download, but it seems to me that's no mistake because of bad download of .exe or .iso.

  System logs show the following.

  > Product: Dell EqualLogic host - 1720 integration tools. Error there is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your provider to support personal or package. Custom action error in script-2147024773 CleanDepricatedShortcuts,: line 28, column 3

  We have a Windows Server 2012 and a 2012 Cluster Hyper-V in R2 with several Windows Server 2012 R2. I tried the upgrade on Windows Server 2012.

  Please help.

  I was able to fix it myself. It seems to me, the Setup program needs all the shortcuts on the place of origin. If there is a lack or there was a change of name of a folder, the Setup program fails with the error message above.

  There are two solutions. Copy all shortcuts and folders to another installation or run the repair installation. I did the first step copies all the shortcuts to another facility.

  I was able to upgrade successfully on all installations.