If you want to flash the LEDs on an Equallogic array whilst plugged into the Serial port (or via SSH/Telnet) then run these commands When on the CLI: # member show This will output the member(s) information Name Status Version Disks Capacity FreeSpace Connections ——————– ——- Read More…
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Changing Equallogic Replication Target
Scenario: I have a Equalliogic Group (Lets call this Group1 which has a single PS4000X member – FW 5.1.2) which replicates a 2TB volume to Group2 (PS6000XV – FW 5.2.8). I wanted to stop this and replicate it to Group3 ( PS6100X – FW 6.0.4) Firstly you’ll need to check if it is possible/compatible Read More…
Change Group Membership Password on Equallogic Group
Scenario: I needed to add another Equallogic to our existing group but couldn’t remember the group membership password (or to be more accurate , the password I had stored didn’t work!) This is extremely easy and has no affect on the running/settings of the current group. Firstly telnet or SSH to your device (make sure Read More…
Permanently Unpresent a LUN in ESXi 5.x and Equallogic – 6 Simple steps
The following is a quick tutorial on removing a VMFS datastore from an ESXi host 1) Do the pre-requsite checks Ensure : – The datastore is not part of the Datastore Monitoring (HA). – SIOC is disabled on the datastore. – The datastore is not part of a SDRS cluster OR part of a datastore Read More…
Equallogic VMware iSCSI LoginTimeout Settings
We were looking to upgrade firmware on some Equallogic SANs and therefore the timeout settings when a controller restarts. The hosts connected to this are all ESXi 5.1 From VMware documentation: Extend the iSCSI login timeout on the ESXi host to 15 – 30 seconds Source: VMware Equallogic From Dell documentation: VMware patch Read More…
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