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Updating
the Enclosure Management Module Firmware - Page 5
... to your Dell™ PowerVault™ 220S or 221S storage system. Programs that automate the update process.
• Update utilities - This document provides firmware update procedures for your storage system firmware:
• Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager - FOR PROOF ONLY
Updating the Enclosure Management Module Firmware
5 The firmware update procedures are included...
Updating
the Enclosure Management Module Firmware - Page 8
... system. 3 Download the executable Windows DUP package file (PV220s-221s-FRMW-Rxxxxx.exe,
where Rxxxxx indicates the release) from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com and place it into the directory you created in step 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update Procedure
Use the following procedure updates the firmware on a PowerVault 22xS storage system that is not available on your...
Updating
the Enclosure Management Module Firmware - Page 9
... Firmware Using Firmware Update Utililties
Dell provides firmware updates as downloadable compressed files that the update was successful. 7 Restart I /O activity to the storage system. 2 Log in to the host system as a user with administrator privileges. 3 Create a directory on a PowerVault 22xS storage system that is not available. FOR PROOF ONLY
Updating the Enclosure Management Module...
Updating
the Enclosure Management Module Firmware - Page 13
... are upgrading the firmware using Array Manager version 3.1.1 or earlier and the storage system is connected, but may continue to the individual EMMs on the other EMM. When completed, ensure that is not installed on your EMM modules.
If you can temporarily attach the storage system to it. To verify the firmware update, stop and then restart the Disk Management Service...
Upgrading to Ultra
320 EMMs - Page 2
..., if enabled, an alarm might beep until the module is replaced. Figure 1. www.dell.com | support.dell.com
1 Turn off power to -storage system cable from the EMM.
This step is optional if I/O activity to the storage system has ceased.
2 Remove the host server-to the storage system in the System Information Guide that shipped with your computer.
1 Carefully insert the...
Upgrading to Ultra
320 EMMs - Page 3
... Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. All rights reserved. Printed in trademarks and trade names other than its own. Trademarks used in this document is strictly forbidden. NOTE: The Ultra 320 enclosure supports a mixture of the module to secure the module to the chassis.
4 Connect the host server-to-storage system cable to the Ultra 320 EMM. 5 Replace the applicable Ultra 160 hard drives...
Rack-to-Tower
Conversion Guide - Page 8
See the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for the conversion, you might want to remove the two power supply and cooling modules at the back of the system chassis to reduce the weight of the work surface or table.
1 Label and remove the hard drives from the system chassis, using care to avoid damaging the
five plastic light pipes that secure...
Rack-to-Tower
Conversion Guide - Page 12
c Reinstall the hard drives and power and cooling modules, if they were removed (see the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for information about installing and configuring your system. b Install the two captive thumbscrews in their holes at the bottom of the front panel. Figure 1-5. Installing the Tower Front Bezel
bezel
1-10
Rac k -t o -Tow er C on v e r si on Guide
thumbscrew
d...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 14
...; 3+1 Fan Redundancy, optional redundant power supply ƒ Supports cables up to 32TB per server
Manageability
ƒ Robust RAID management ƒ Fully integrated solution
Affordability
ƒ Lower cost than Fibre Channel ƒ Low cost non-redundant configs
PV 220S Rack SCSI Storage Array
PV 221S Tower SCSI Storage Array
FEATURES ƒ Up to 14 1" SCSI U160 SCSI hard disk drives ƒ...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 16
... HD to Wide HD
SCSI Hard Drive Support
PowerVault disk-based storage solutions (such as the PowerVault 220S) support the latest SCSI hard drives, currently specified as PowerEdge servers), to help ensure the best possible customer experience, Dell highly recommends purchasing all PowerEdge, PowerVault NAS and many PowerEdge SC servers.
As such, Dell supports only Dell tested and qualified...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 19
...all 14 hard drives on the Split Bus Module (SBM) sets the desired enclosure topology. The configuration will be substituted in more detail below. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) management features are end-user configurable: Joined, Split, and Cluster topologies, as modes, which are an integral part of operation providing access to protect from the enclosure to the server. If operating...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 24
..., and to take specific action to warn the user when these parameters. Trigger thresholds can be
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11/17/2005 A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS
VER A02
modules is supported, but not recommended. For more details on . Actual transfer rate of different drive sizes is not supported.
In summary, the following SES functions are continuously...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 25
... enclosure.
Specifically, for ANSI SPI-4 operation. External SCSI Connector Types
There are approved for SCSI U160 speeds, a cable must be attached between the host system(s) and the PV22xS enclosure. Always verify the controller connector type to temporarily halt disk I /O is still occurring, all activities must be halted first) o Power supply module o Fan modules
• Neither...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 27
... when servicing enclosure management requests
• Power Supply Redundancy
PV22xS is capable of up to continue operating with same increased availability Increase availability, if spanned across multiple channels Increased Availability, if mirror set is thermally designed to 2 fan units; multiple power supplies provide 1+1 redundancy
• Cooling Redundancy
PV22xS provides support of...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions - Page 33
... mode is set from 10,000-15,000 on the hard
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11/17/2005 NOTE: Patrol Read and Consistency Check are not supported in a configured physical disk for Direct Attached SCSI Solutions
• Patrol Read o Patrol Read is not recommended to mix drives, since overall SCSI bus performance will be limited to run modes: Manual and Automatic...
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