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• LAG does not not after more Guide of switch Configuration for EqualLogic San steps in the document.

  We use the information provided in the following document: i.dell.com/.../dell-networking-n4000-series-switch-configuration-guide-for-equallogic-sans.pdf

  We have two switches of N4032F which are stacked and followed almost word for Word from this document.  We do not use DCB.  We are trying to set up a SHIFT and follow-up step 2.11 in the document, but it seems that the SHIFT does not work.

  Switch 1:

  serial interface fortygigabitethernet 1/1/1-2

  No spanning tree portfast

  active in mode channel-group 1

  Switch 2:

  interface series fortygigabitethernet 2/1/1-2

  No spanning tree portfast

  active in mode channel-group 2

  However, when it was discovered after changing these settings it shows them as being inactive.

  

  Can someone please help?

  Thank you

  Jeff

  Thanks for the additional information. When the switches are stacked, they act as a logical switch. Then when you plug with an OFFSET you are basically creating a loop and hook up a switch on himself. Desempilement switches and just use the OFFSET for the interconnection of the switch and you should see the GAL go active.

• Clean shutdown for EqualLogic PS6100 without stopping the host/iSCSI initiator

  In fact, I've known the procedure on how to stop the Equallogic PS storage. But I have a question as well as the procedure.

  Do you really need to stop the iSCSI initiator or the host connected to the storage before you shut down the storage controller?

  Because we move the Equallogic box on the rack on the other. I just want to stop the Equallogic without stopping the hosts.

  Hello

  The hosts are connected to some other storage that you want to keep as you move the table EQL?  If you stop the storage, it is similar to pulling on a hard drive in its operation.  Most of the time nothing bad will happen.  But all entries that did not allow the storage is lost.   For applications such as SQL or Exchange is not something you want.

  If you need to keep the server up, stop all applications accessing the volumes, then disconnect all EQL volumes first, and then stop the EQL table.  Will be served waiting for the written word.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Recommendation of RAID for Equallogic iSCSI SAN?

  We look at a Dell/Equallogic PS6000E with 16 drives of 1 TB, it connects to our servers ESX 2-3 (about 15 virtual machines running) and to a SQL cluster (mainly a SharePoint service workload size).  Dell recommends RAID5, which would give us ~ 12 useful to.  Frankly, if we had used 8TB, that would be fine.  Any recommendations for the best RAID for Equallogics level?

  Thank you

  Chad

  If you can really just 8 to, I must say raid 10...   Reference Dell suggests always raid 5 no matter what.

  Now best practices is to create several groups of disks with different raid levels for the taste of storage at your fingertips.

  You are going to have to make some calls to judgment on how to implement.     I suggest you test conversions PtoV tour and play with the config some before deciding, but I know that it is now possible in most cases.

  Dell has an excellent white paper on the table.  It's for the MD3000i, but the raid types and most other info still apply to the DAS or san during raids.

  http://www.Dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/pvault_md3000_whitepaper.PDF

• Management for EqualLogic failover port

  I'm setting up a Dell EqualLogic PS6210XV.
  I configured dedicated management interface. When I disconnect the management on the active controller port, it is not automatically switch to the management port on the controller to start (as a port 10 GB of data). Please guide me how to do this fail over automatically.

  Hello

  There is no automatic failover with dedicated Mgmt ports.  You will need to either restore a connectivity or a failover on the other controller.

  Kind regards

  Don

• Aggregation of links for Equallogic

  A few questions on the Equallogic aggregation and link:

  The physical cable how can I use to set my Berry of EQuallogic iSCSI on my physical switch Cisco 7 K? 2 or 4?

  How aggregation of links can I use: LACP?

  Thank you!

  Hello

  EqualLogic doesn't support grouping/collage/LACP, etc...   You must configure MPIO on the guests instead.

  Kind regards

• Access SupportAssist web interface from another computer?

  Hello

  I installed the Version 1.3.0.148 of SupportAssist for servers and I can't access the web interface from another computer, only from the server I have installed.

  I could not find in something configuration files allow only localhost.

  Is it possible to make the web interface available to other computers on the same LAN?

  Thank you

  Version 1.3.0.148 for servers

  Hello

  You can also access the SupportAssist on a remote system if the 2607 port is open on the system where the SupportAssist is installed.

  You can use the following URL to access help support

  https://

  installed >: 2607/SupportAssist

  Hope this helps

  Thank you

  Christelle

• 10 GB switches for network SAN Eql

  Hello

  We'll buy a new PS4210X 10 GB storage.

  We currently have a PS5000, a PS4000E and a PS6100X with 1Gbit Interfaces in the same network. All have their own group. A new will be in its own group.

  The network is a ring (a single trunk is open through the Protocol spanning tree) 4 Dell Powerconnect 52XX GBit switch (2 x 24, 2 x 48). 2 switches with 2 tables and 2 servers in a room, 2 1 and 2 in another room.

  The switches still have 1-2 years maintenance...

  I know the new storage can always run on GBit until we go to 10 GB on the network.

  1. what switches Dell or HP 10 GB would you consider for the new network?

  2. is it possible to buy 10 GB switches and use 1gbit and 10 Gbit customers stand on this switches at the same time?

  3. you would mix the traffic on the physical network with VLAN for your production traffic, or you would still dedicate the entire network for SAN traffic?

  Any other consideration?

  Thank you.

  For those customers who are in some longer period of transition from 1 to 10 GbE, we choose BaseT rather than SFP +.  Thus, the following switch model comes in my mind

  Force10 s4820 or N4032/64.  Don't forget that you still have 2 switches with good band stacking bandwidth.

  The Force10 comes with 48x10GbE + 4x40GbE. The N4032 have 24 x 10 + 2 x 40 and the N4064 48 x 10 + 4 x 40. Then do the math how many ports you need from the beginning. Stacking is a little less complicated with N40xx the thing (i) VLT on the Force10.

  The three models are certified for EqualLogic and we work in a few areas and a customer more have "legacy" servers/devices connected to the new switch gear.

  Yes, you should always use VLAN and whenever it's possible traffic stored separately from the rest.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• HIT for RHEL 7

  When support for RHEL based 7 facilities? We prepare for you present to a RHEL 7 from datacenter and we can't seem to find a HIT for Equallogic

  So, ONCE in 2015, is basically what you're saying.

  Wow this is a very tight timetable for a company of $60 US per year.

  Its been over a year since the last version of Linux has HIT (April 2014) and in terms of support of RHEL7:

  «Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (Maipo) is based on Fedora 19, upstream Linux kernel 3.10, systemd 208 and GNOME 3.8.» The first beta was announced December 11, 2013, and a release candidate first aired April 15, 2014. On June 10, 2014 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 was officially released. »

  Rhel7 has been officially available for more than a year, none supported yet of Dell.  I hope that Dell realizes that is telling its Linux customers to shop elsewhere.

• When support for RHEL based 7 facilities? I see in the post of March/April... Now its may?

  When support for RHEL/ORACLE 7/7.1 based installations? We prepare for you present to a RHEL 7 from datacenter and we can't seem to find a HIT for Equallogic

  not so long ago, the message was 'start-2015'. now "somewhere" later this year

  It seems that we should not expect too much from the reliability of this information, most of the time they are simply not true.

• SupportAssist does not start

  I cannot from the Dell SupportAssist on standard Windows Server 2012 program.

  At first I installed with OpenManage Essentials 1.2.0 and SupportAssist worked well. Then I had some difficulties to install SupportAssist for Microsoft SCOM and had to reinstall.

  After this installation, the SupportAssist program was not able to open. It just starts opens the view host OpenManage. No matter if I start from the computer or from the Extensions list.

  SupportAssist service seems to work very well. I tried the removal and reinstallation of the SupportAssist component and also update to 1.2.1 but nothing has changed.

  What is the cause and how do I get to begin SupportAssist Dell?

  Remove and then reinstall OpenManage and SupportAssist fixed the problem. Thank you very much for the help!

• EqualLogic Update Notifications

  Is there a RSS subscription or other services available that I can subscribe to get the latest updates for EqualLogic software and firmware?

  If you have a Support Agreement active for your EqualLogic Arrays, you can configure to receive notifications by e-mail of updates to software and firmware.  Once logged into the site (eqlsupport.dell.com), select the account (at the top at the top next to your name), and then step through the items until you get to "Préférences" and make your choice of what emails you want to receive.

  -joe

• EQUALLOGIC 6110 initial configuration failed

  During the initial execution of installation for EQUALLOGIC 6110
  get an error msg

  IP address for the network interface []: 192.168.6.8
  Netmask [255.255.255.0]:
  Default gateway [192.168.6.1]:

  Initialize the eth0 interface.  This may take a few minutes...
  The eth0 interface is unable to connect to the network.  Please link a network to eth0.
  Please try again.

  Please suggest me

  A (One) the active controller cable is sufficient. You can use SFP + or thereand.

  Connecting to a server (your blade) should also work. Just a 'link' is needed. Once you have bypass the wizard, you can configure the management port option. It also has an uplink, but you can use a normal switch here. After that, you can point your browser to this IP address.

  Kind regards

  Joerg

• Port of heart beat Vmkernal of storage for table Equalogic PS

  Dell has just installed a new EQL PS SAN and configured for our 5 x ESXi hosts 5.0U1. Each host has 2 10 GB NIC have inaugurated a vswitch dedicated for iSCSi connections to the SAN. MPIO is via the driver of Dell MPIO add-on.

  They are configured so as to VMK 2 ports iSCSi1 ands iSCSi2 1:1 as usual. However, as Dell has left, I came across a Dell/EQL (TR1075-Configure-iSCSI-Connectivity-with-VMware-vSphere-5.pdf) white paper that says that a separate vmk port must be configured to maintain "pingability' of the iscsi ports during failure/failover. This port must have an ip address on the iSCSi subnet and 2 10GB network adapters must be active in the team but are not related to the iSCSi adapter. It should also be the port down vmk not.

  The following positions in various net forums seem to suggest this is very important: -.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1877959

  http://www.LinkedIn.com/groups/new-guidelines-VMware-iSCSI-65187.S.89647775

  http://sostech.WordPress.com/2012/01/10/iSCSI-multipath-for-EqualLogic-round-3/

  If it is there, it is easy to create the additional vmk but how I would make the lowest port without deleting existing ports and access of SAN interupting.

  Kind regards

  Gerry

  5.1 ESXi does not resolve the problem, then the kernel of Heartbeat of storage (SHB), is no longer necessary.

  However, with ESXi v5.0 you don't have to remove the two ports VMK and start from scratch.  You can unbind the VMK port below via the GUI ESX.  Then, change the network cards so that both are active.   Then create a NEW VMK port in this subnet that has bound to the iSCSI HBA to replace the port lowest VMK used for SHB.

• Aggiornamento Dell-Equallogic-iSCSI cluster

  Ciao, ho 'fed' we [o | e] re di seguire di aggiornamento di Altra sede della mia azienda cluster. E' NATO ed e ESXi 4.1 knew Dell R710 con uno storage Equallogic PS6000XV iSCSI usato.

  Ho fatto some aggiornamento (4.1-5.1 e 4.1-5.0-5.1 > > >) not known macchine che montano di storage which provider e iSCSI, I wanted to know is qualcuno ha lavorato knew ambienti di what e tipo ha some experience/consiglio/updated cautioned da fourth, anche per quanto become the versione da installare, 5.0 o 5.1.

  Non vedo controindicazioni long (sw di backup o altro che supporta non ancora) all 'sommergibili dell' ultimo 'modello' di hypervisor, Reed is 5.0u1 e ovviamente a po' piu 'collaudato '.

  Ho controlled HCL e sul sito Dell site

  http://support.Dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/KCS/document?c=us & docid = 578394

  If spoke di "dedicated VMware versions" my following it by scaricarle percorso spoke iso di usare only by reinstallare immagini su ESXi SD, quindi di utilizzare come al solito better I CD scaricati dal sito vmware.com

  By how far it vCenter (di cui prevedo the film known nuova vm con local db) andrei Galway sulla 5.1, perched not vedrei ragione di preferire the previous version...

  Well, better some important passi che da fare preventivamene sono sempre I there di all the compatibility dei firmware, in particular dello storage, nel caso which procedere al loro aggiornamento.

  Per quanto i CD vendor, ricordo del if a di memoria che Equallogic has United Nations PSA dedicated made da stessa Dell; Quando sono available usually andrebbero used al posto del default. Ho trovato a post del "mitico" Cormac Hogan a riguardo:

  http://blogs.VMware.com/vSphere/2011/11/Dells-multipath-extension-module-for-EqualLogic-now-supports-vSphere-50.html

  No Yes poi honestly will I pilot siano installabili o via VIB, oppure serva end it CD custom di Dell. In al fondo post if dice che possibile miss e I vari software dal portale Dell, prova a vedere.

  Non ho capito the questioned backup: o stai ham it VDP integrated di VMware, oppure ad oggi nessun seller ancora una versione ufficialmente su supportat 5.1 has virtually

  Ciao,.

  Luca.