PS5000 & PS6000

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• Remove a Member

  We have a group with berries PS5000, PS6000 (1) and (2) PS6100 (2).  PS5000 units are now out of warranty and we want to get our data out of production out of these units.  (We can gen their in the future for the storage of level 4 or something like that.)  The 3 remaining members have enough storage to support for these two members of the guarantee.  I have a default storage pool.  Firmware is v5.2.8.  RAID 50.

  My research says I can choose to remove members of the interface and the unit moves out of its data for the three remaining members and be reset to the factory settings.  I guess, it will be terminiate it is as well the iSCSI connections.   Apparently, there will be no data loss with this process. (?)  I'm looking to have this research checked for me and is it really as simple as that?  Should this be done out of hours?  One at a time too, probably.

  Thanks for sharing knowledge

  Hello

  Something I like to do, instead of directly delete, move it to a new pool.  This will leave all the data behind, moving connections iSCSI for the other members as well.  Once in the pool temp, then Yes select 'Remove member' and it will reset to the factory settings.

  I also suggest upgrading to 6.0.8 there are many improvements and with the release of 7.x support 5.2.x firmware is easily pay.

  Kind regards

• getting dropped under heavy load of iSCSI LUNS

  Hello

  
  I found a few forums on this... but not a response yet.

  I have a Hp Lefthand 4300 cluster for the storage, connected to 2 x DL360 G7 ESXi 4.1 via iSCSI (Hp edition) guests and a Procurve gigabit switch dedicated for iSCSI. Whenever I run a backup down the LUN for a few seconds (usually 5, however it was as much a minute).

  Things, I tried...

  Updated software from the left to the latest version

  Updated all the HP firmware on the hosts

  Update to the latest drivers HP Boradcom on ESXi hosts

  Changed the timeout 1400 (esxcfg-advcfg - s VMFS3/14000/HBTokenTimeout)

  These servers come into production in the new year... Please please can someone help me solve this problem?

  I call open with Vmware and HP, nor was particually useful, Vmware has suggested I called HP and updated card drivers NETWORK, HP simply said that it was a network problem and closed the call... Thank you!

  I intalled surveillance under tension and can not see all ports dropped etc. All the equipment is new and the LAN cables are Cat6.

  Don't really know where to go from here!

  The exact error I get is...

  Lost access to the volume (4cf7b1ac-5fdcc218-5c2e-1cc1dee48e30)
  S1 - SP1OS) because of connectivity issues. Recovery attempt is in
  progress and results will be announced soon.
  Info
  2010-12-27 01:06:06
  192.168.32.2

  Please help me!

  Kind regards

  Kris

  We have recently changed some hosts who also had problems on a heavy load with iscsi San connections. We used hwiscsi (TOE), Broadcom adapters (was a recommendation from different vendors) before and this has recently changed to swiscsi (with Jumbo).

  No. dropped / resets on connections over this host. And a much faster flow of vm (tested with IOmeter).

  We also saw a much beter performance (throughput) on hosts with NIC configured to swiscsi on comparisation of hosts with an iSCSI HBAS (Qlogic 4062).

  We use VMware ESXi 4.1 (latest patches).

  Problems with broadcom TOE (hwiscsi) on HP DL360G6 also on Dell M610 blades.

  SAN: EqualLogic PS5000 PS6000, PS5500, PS6500,

  Switches: Juniper weer Jumbo Frames and flow control.

  So I recommend you also use swiscsi on these broadcom adapters.

  If you are looking for broadcom issues with vmware, find others with similar experiences.

• PS6000 - new drive needed

  Hello

  one of the disks in our Dell PS6000 told us that it is a failure.

  To reduce the risk, we want to replace it.

  The disk used current (Seagate ST31000340NS) are EOL

  What kind of discs that we could use, because we think this drives needs a special Branded Firmware.

  Thank you

  Uwe

  Hello

  No code unlock at all.  It is hardcoded in the firmware itself.  EQL no readers will be spotted and unused.

  Don

• LUN 20 TO - CX3 / PS5000

  Hello.

  Is it possible to create a large RAID5 LUN (to 20) using the several CX3 DAE FC disks?

  How about PS5000 - is it possible using several boxes PS5000 SAS drives?

  Thank you.

  
  

• EqualLogic PS6000s in a group hybrid

  Hi all

  We have 2 PS6000 without. An SSD and a SATA.

  With the new firmware (V7.1.2) we understand that the creation of a group, and identify as such SSD table, it was supposed to perform in the form of a table of the hybrid. The group does not appear when you run as expected and the e/s is higher on rotating disks on the SSD (seems backwards).

  Can someone confirm this for me? I'm not find documents confirming the he...

  Any help would be greatly appreciated, perhaps there is a configuration setting that you miss? There may be a configuration there guide I'm not find?

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Mark

  Hi Mark,

  Yes, sorry, it was supposed to be 'impossible '.

  A 'Hybrid' 6000 model cannot SSD + SAS drives in the SAME chassis.  A small set of disks SSD and balance SAS drives.  The only available RAID option is "accelerated RAID6.   It is this level that offers the advantage of this combination.   RAID levels do not in the Member States in a pool.  Each Member has it's own RAIDsets.  Data in a pool are distributed to members in the same pool.

  Kind regards

  Don

• PS5000 update the hard drive Firmware

  Hello

  I have a group of three members (P5000, PS5000e & PS4100) equallogic I used storage Dell Update Manager to update all three to V6.0.11, but when I tried to update V7.0.10, he asked for the firmware of the hard drive for the PS5000. So I downloaded the Firmware of the drive hard v8.0 and tried to apply, it didn't and after reading more far away the ps5000 has a controller of type 5, and it will not apply.

  Is it possible to get it to apply, I tried FTP and using the CLI interface but no joy, dell equallogic support will apply the firmware if the PS5000 is no longer under warranty? or what I can do to enforce?

  If not can I bypass this firmware of the hard drive and just update the Group of v7.1.8 using ftp and CLI? because the use of the Dell Storage Manager up-to-date it auto selects the box install the disk firmware.

  Kind regards

  Dan

  Hello Dan,.

  There is no way to update the firmware of the drive on Type 5 controllers.  No matter how you try to do the upgrade process.

  Yes, you can skip the update of the firmware of drive by directly FTP'ng firmware EQL to each Member, and then run the update to the CLI process.

  If you have the available series cables I suggest you do updates through the series, or at least check connections series to work on all members.

  Kind regards

  Don

• 16 disks table PS5000 Sata - Raid for better performance and more capacity

  Good afternoon all

  I studied the whims of the various raid options and I was wondering if anyone has any practical idea using tables PS5000 SATA?  Basically, the table will backup disks to virtual machines as well as Raid would be preferable for the performance and capacity?  I was thinking 50 Raid or Raid 6, that the table is at a distance of my office in one data center so that there could be 2 failures before the disaster...

  Thank you very much

  Eric

  Hi Eric,.

  'best' depends entirely on the expected I/O model.  Small random writes should use R10.  RAID50 is usually a good compromise on space and performance.  But it has the risk of a double RAIDset faillée down.

  Another factor is that the PS5000 is end of life.  No support, firmware or parts of long term.  Help to off the shelf drives add uncertainty to the reliability of the table.   I would never use one of these for primary production so data.  To provide the best protection in this case, I would use only RAID6.   R10 would be down, but may suffer and failed with two failed disks in the mirror of the same value.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Can PS5000 and PS6210 - be in the same group?

  Hi all

  I have 2 PS6210 Equallogic units in a group, it is possible to add one of my old PS5000 devices to the group or do I need to keep them in separate groups?

  Thank you very much

  Eric

  Yes, you can... but:

  -The FW 7.x is the last for PS5000 and all members of a group must run the same version. So if you already upgraded your 6210 to 8.x you cannot add the PS5000

  -There is a guide of best practices on mix 1 and 10 GbE

  -As long as your PS5000 have a valid support contract youre allowed to download and deploy the latest FW version... think.  Members with and without the support of the same group is not allowed and will be trouble.

  I suggest to run the PS5000 on his own band.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• EqualLogic PS6000 Serires IP address changing

  Hello

  My logic equal group IP is 192.168.0.1 and my two other members of storage are 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 no port management "management of ports are not configured and is unable to be present due to the direction and iscsi are on the same subnet.

  I would like to change the IP address of the 172.16.10.2 group and my two 172.16.10.3 storage 172.16.10.4 "I want to get rid of the subnet 192.x in preparations of iscsi with the exception of the management ports."

  If I change the ip group at 172.16.10.2 and activate 1 Ethernet ports on the two members with IP 172.16.10.3 172.16.10.4, this group will still be intact and members can see each other in the group without problem?  or what I need to reset the devices of storage and everything again?

  * This is not a production system and contains no data on this subject yet.*

  Thank you

  Hello

  You don't have to reset the berries to change IP addresses.  Just do it slowly, I prefer the serial port as it will always be available when you change IPS.  At some point, you have a PC that has access to both networks.

  PS6000, alias Type 7 controller does not have a dedicated port of Mgmt.  If you want to use out-of-band management, you will lose the last GbE port for this feature.

  So assuming that you do not want to lose a GbE port, you must change a port on each Member new subnet...  This updates the internal members IP addresses table so that they will always stay in contact with each other.  When you get down to the last port, change the IP address of the Group on the new subnet.  Then change the default gateway for the new subnet on all members.  Then finally replace the last network ports on all members of the new subnet.

  I suggest you then restart the two members, a moment.

  If you have a contract of support in place, Dell support can help you in this process.

  Kind regards

• PS6000: Firmware upgrade failure of V5.0.8 to V6.0.7

  I have two old PS6000 storage and PS4000. a 2nd successful update to V6.0.7 V5.2.11. But the PS6000 is not updated once V5.0.8 to V6.0.7 and showing error 'you are unable to upgrade to this version due to compatibility problems, abandoned update". The two storage are not in production prior to upgradation so I did if factory them failed!

  I have also tried upgrade to 7.0.1 but couldn't so then tried V6.0.7 and improved PS4000 but not the other.

  I need to keep the two in the same group and version storage. Could you please help me in this regard.

  

  Thanks in advance.

  Johnny

  If you read the documentation update carefully, you will find the info of what version you can upgrade to the last or an intermediate version is necessary. Upgrade your 5.0.8 to 5.2.x first and than 6.0.7.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• PS5000

  I have a ps3000 equallogic.  However when I entered the tag service he says it's a PS5000.  Is it possible to integrate this feature into my home network before I waste a lot of time and money.  So far, I have wired in series to the device and started Setup.  However when I try to communicate to the device via the browser, no chance. My router is not see it.  If I plug the ethernet cable will be I need a cable of recovery.

  Thank you

• Unable to upgrade EqualLogic HDD Firmware Upgrade KD03 to KD0A on PS6000

  I can't get the PS6000 to update all the HDD for the Firmware recommended. I followed all the instructions for the execution of the HDD of KD03 to KD0A upgrade. It only worked on the PS6500, the upgrade of 48 hard drives. Members are in the same pool. All members of the pool are in the same group. In the PS6000 drives that need to be updated are the same for hard drives PS6500. Is there a method to determine if the HDD PS6000 were even checked for the upgrade? How can I force the firmware on the PS6000 especially for readers who need to upgrade?

  
  

• PS6000 or PS4100

  Hello

  Quick question according to your experiences.

  We have a few of EQL in different groups, and I want to move a member to another group to configure SyncRep on it.

  I can choose between a PS6000 with SATA 7.2 k drives or a PS4100 with 7.2 k SAS drives.

  I thought I'd take the PS4100 for there eve´n of SAS drives, they have the same rpm I think SAS is faster, not really sure about it. However the PS6000 have four ports rather than two ports ethernet on the PS4100, I guess I can get several MPIO paths using PS6000 performance improving.

  As you can tell I'm not one to use. Any ideas would be helpful thanks.

  If you want to use SyncRep both pools should be "identical" in terms of time of latency/Ops ARE / s. Otherwise the slower pool will limit your performance.

  Depending on your load of work 2x1GbE should be enough. Don't forget that ppl use most the last ports to dedicated so management your PS6000 gives only 3 usable ports. The PS4100 comes with NEARLINE SAS that are slightly faster than the old SATA drives.

  If you have SANhq available, take a look at the volume you want Syncrep' ed.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• PS6000 convert RAID5 in RAID10

  I have a PS6000 in a group of 3 members (in its own pool of storage) I want to convert RAID5 in RAID10. All LUNS have been removed, but the option to change from RAID5 to anything else is grayed out.

  How can I update?

  You cannot move from a larger capacity RAID 5 at a smaller level as R10.  Which is never been supported.  The only way is to reset it and recreate.  You can save the configuration and restore it.  That would save some time you recreate the configuration.  If it is a member of an existing group, then remove the group, who must be able to deliver.

  Kind regards