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The Dell PowerVault MD3000i

The Dell PowerVault MD3000i, announced on September 10, is an iSCSI storage array that provides an inexpensive, easy to configure storage area network (SAN) for both those enterprises that are using SANs as well as those that want to start. A key usage scenario are small-to-medium businesses that may currently be using direct attached storage for all their enterprise applications but are looking to consolidate into a SAN for better disk utilization and ease of management. The MD3000i is ideal for storage consolidation, as the first study shows.

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PowerVault MD3000i Storage Consolidation Study MPIO to PowerVault MD3000i with Microsoft iSCSI Initiator
Performance Monitoring with MD3000i Scripting with MD3000/MD3000i


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dravecz MD3000i error codes 5 Oct 3 2008, 3:34 PM EDT by scott_hanson
Thread started: Apr 7 2008, 7:31 AM EDT  Watch
Hello, I am seeking the description of error codes of Event Log of the MD3000i Modular Storage Manager, but I have not found them in any manuals and docs.

E.g.: I received the following event log messages, but and I don't know what them mean exactly:
Date/Time: 4/3/08 4:00:53 PM
Sequence number: 459
Event type: 1707
Description: Degraded wide port becomes failed
Event specific codes: 0/0/0
Event category: Error
Component type: Enclosure Component (EMM, GBIC/SFP, Power Supply, or Fan)
Component location: Enclosure 0, Slot 0
Logged by: RAID Controller Module in slot 1

Date/Time: 4/3/08 4:00:53 PM
Sequence number: 456
Event type: 1706
Description: Optimal wide port becomes degraded
Event specific codes: 0/0/0
Event category: Error
Component type: Enclosure Component (EMM, GBIC/SFP, Power Supply, or Fan)
Component location: Enclosure 0, Slot 1
Logged by: RAID Controller Module in slot 1

Thank you for any help.

Regard, Tibor
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brian_summers RAID 10 on an MD3000 1 Aug 6 2008, 8:12 AM EDT by Nepharim
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Thread started: Aug 5 2008, 10:27 AM EDT  Watch
Hey guys,
When configuring R10 via MDSM there is no "RAID 10" option.
Can a customer just pick R1 and apply it to 4 or more drives?

--Brian
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gregdo MD3000i Snapshot vs. Virtual Disk Copy 2 Aug 5 2008, 1:43 PM EDT by gregdo
Thread started: Jul 31 2008, 6:14 PM EDT  Watch
We have an MD3000i with SAS and SATA drives. I want to backup the volumes on the SAS drives to the SATA drives.

Is a Snapshot good enough for a backup? i.e. If the SAS raid array failed, would I be able to recover all the data from the last snapshot on the SATA drives or do I have to do a disk copy to do that?

What is the difference between a Snapshot and Virtual Disk Copy?

Thanks,
Greg
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smoke455 backup MD3000i to tape 6 Jul 29 2008, 12:55 PM EDT by smoke455
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Thread started: Jul 24 2008, 1:55 PM EDT  Watch
we are getting an MD3000i to use as an iSCSI SAN (vmware, windows, linux, netware...) We spec'd it to have SAS drives for live data and SATA drives for snapshot backups. We need to have off-site backups of the SAN, but I'm not sure how to proceed and best utilize the snapshot features to offload to tape. Should I be looking for another server to hang a tape library onto to make backups of the snapshots - I'm new to using a SAN so I'm a bit lost/confused.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
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swygue MD3000i RHEL 5 Xen Cluster 4 Apr 25 2008, 4:37 PM EDT by plillian
Thread started: Dec 1 2007, 9:47 AM EST  Watch
I am interested in using the MD3000i to build a RHEL 5 Xen virtual server farm. Will the MD3000i work with RHEL Cluster Suite ?
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