Updating the Enclosure Management Module Firmware
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...operating systems: • Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server • Windows Server 2003 • Novell NetWare (all Dell-supported versions) To update the firmware on your PowerVault 22xS storage system using Array Manager: NOTE: In the following steps, xx refers to the firmware release number. ... 2. 4 Double-click the FUPG_Exx.exe file to extract the firmware update files to your system's hard drive. 5 On the host system, click the Start button and select Programs→ Dell OpenManage Applications→ Array Manager→ Array Manager Console. 6 Select Arrays→ PERC Subsystem....
...operating systems: • Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server • Windows Server 2003 • Novell NetWare (all Dell-supported versions) To update the firmware on your PowerVault 22xS storage system using Array Manager: NOTE: In the following steps, xx refers to the firmware release number. ... 2. 4 Double-click the FUPG_Exx.exe file to extract the firmware update files to your system's hard drive. 5 On the host system, click the Start button and select Programs→ Dell OpenManage Applications→ Array Manager→ Array Manager Console. 6 Select Arrays→ PERC Subsystem....
Upgrading to Ultra 320 EMMs
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... shipped with your computer. NOTICE: You should have the latest version of the Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager and host server controller firmware installed on your system to Ultra 320 EMMs. To obtain the latest version of your EMMs, hard drives, and host controller must support Ultra 320. NOTE: You should perform a complete... to upgrade your storage system. This document describes how to Ultra 320 EMMs CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Dell™ PowerVault™ 22xS Systems -
... shipped with your computer. NOTICE: You should have the latest version of the Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager and host server controller firmware installed on your system to Ultra 320 EMMs. To obtain the latest version of your EMMs, hard drives, and host controller must support Ultra 320. NOTE: You should perform a complete... to upgrade your storage system. This document describes how to Ultra 320 EMMs CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. www.dell.com | support.dell.com Dell™ PowerVault™ 22xS Systems -
Upgrading to Ultra 320 EMMs
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...: Dell, the DELL logo, Dell OpenManage, and PowerVault are labeled Ultra 160 (Ultra 3) or Ultra 320 (Ultra 4). 6 Turn on your storage system. www.dell.com | support.dell.com 2 Push the module to the back of the slot until it is subject to change without the written permission of Dell Computer... and names or their respective speeds. In an Ultra 320 environment, the hard drives run at the top of Ultra 160 and Ultra 320 hard drives. All rights reserved. The hard drives are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Information in this document is firmly seated in trademarks and trade...
...: Dell, the DELL logo, Dell OpenManage, and PowerVault are labeled Ultra 160 (Ultra 3) or Ultra 320 (Ultra 4). 6 Turn on your storage system. www.dell.com | support.dell.com 2 Push the module to the back of the slot until it is subject to change without the written permission of Dell Computer... and names or their respective speeds. In an Ultra 320 environment, the hard drives run at the top of Ultra 160 and Ultra 320 hard drives. All rights reserved. The hard drives are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Information in this document is firmly seated in trademarks and trade...
Rack Installation Guide
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...) wrench to disengage, and pull the covers up, away from the top of the tower system. Removing the Front Bezel lock thumbscrew bezel 3 Label all hard drives and remove them from the top of the tower system. Rack Installation Guide 1-11
...) wrench to disengage, and pull the covers up, away from the top of the tower system. Removing the Front Bezel lock thumbscrew bezel 3 Label all hard drives and remove them from the top of the tower system. Rack Installation Guide 1-11
Rack Installation Guide
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Rack Installation Guide 1-13 NOTE: In the next step, start all 14 T-10 Torx screws in step 6 of the last procedure, "Removing the Bezel, Drives, Covers, and Front Panel" (see Figure 1-9): a Position the system so that the front panel extends about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) beyond the edge of ... that secure the tower front panel to install the five light pipes in their holes in the Rack," is completed. NOTE: Do not install the hard drives until the next procedure, "Installing the System in the front panel. 6 To remove the tower system front panel (see Figure 1-9). 3 Reinstall the...
Rack Installation Guide 1-13 NOTE: In the next step, start all 14 T-10 Torx screws in step 6 of the last procedure, "Removing the Bezel, Drives, Covers, and Front Panel" (see Figure 1-9): a Position the system so that the front panel extends about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) beyond the edge of ... that secure the tower front panel to install the five light pipes in their holes in the Rack," is completed. NOTE: Do not install the hard drives until the next procedure, "Installing the System in the front panel. 6 To remove the tower system front panel (see Figure 1-9). 3 Reinstall the...
Rack-to-Tower Conversion Guide
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www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-2. 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...
www.dell.com | support.dell.com Figure 1-2. 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...
Rack-to-Tower Conversion Guide
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...Install the two captive thumbscrews in their holes at the bottom of the front panel. d Close the bezel. Figure 1-5. 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. ...the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions). Installing the Tower Front Bezel bezel 1-10 Rac k -t o -Tow er C on v e r si on Guide thumbscrew www.dell.com | support.dell.com 3 To install the bezel: a Position the bezel so it is perpendicular to the system.
...Install the two captive thumbscrews in their holes at the bottom of the front panel. d Close the bezel. Figure 1-5. 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. ...the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide for instructions). Installing the Tower Front Bezel bezel 1-10 Rac k -t o -Tow er C on v e r si on Guide thumbscrew www.dell.com | support.dell.com 3 To install the bezel: a Position the bezel so it is perpendicular to the system.
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... vs. APPENDIX - PowerEdge™ RAID Controllers ...14 SCSI Cabling...15 SCSI Hard Drive Support...16 3rd Party Hardware support...16 Server Support ...16 4. DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - PV22XS ENCLOSURE OVERVIEW ...19 Joined Bus Topology... configuration factors...13 Hot Spares ...13 Clustering Considerations...13 Considerations for Optimal RAID Performance...13 3. C: ABOUT THE DELL SCSI STORAGE SOLUTION TEAM 43 Authors ...43 10. Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration 34 Capacity Needs - A: REFERENCES...41...
... vs. APPENDIX - PowerEdge™ RAID Controllers ...14 SCSI Cabling...15 SCSI Hard Drive Support...16 3rd Party Hardware support...16 Server Support ...16 4. DELL'S PRODUCT OFFERING...14 PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure 14 PERC - PV22XS ENCLOSURE OVERVIEW ...19 Joined Bus Topology... configuration factors...13 Hot Spares ...13 Clustering Considerations...13 Considerations for Optimal RAID Performance...13 3. C: ABOUT THE DELL SCSI STORAGE SOLUTION TEAM 43 Authors ...43 10. Internal/External/Multi channel device configuration 34 Capacity Needs - A: REFERENCES...41...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... a conversion kit to Small Computer System Interface PAGE 14 11/17/2005 Dell's Product Offering PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure Dell™ PowerVault 220xS systems are hot-pluggable and can be removed and replaced easily. Most major components, including hard drives and power supply/cooling modules are flexible, external SCSI expansion enclosures designed to 32TB per...
... a conversion kit to Small Computer System Interface PAGE 14 11/17/2005 Dell's Product Offering PowerVault™ 220S & 221S Storage Enclosure Dell™ PowerVault 220xS systems are hot-pluggable and can be removed and replaced easily. Most major components, including hard drives and power supply/cooling modules are flexible, external SCSI expansion enclosures designed to 32TB per...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...Wide HD to Slim VHDCI Wide HD to Wide HD Wide 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 the rest of the industry. In order to ...allow customers the maximum degree of our guarantees or limited warranties, please write Dell USA L.P., Attn: Warranties, One Dell Way, Round Rock, TX...
...Wide HD to Slim VHDCI Wide HD to Wide HD Wide 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 the rest of the industry. In order to ...allow customers the maximum degree of our guarantees or limited warranties, please write Dell USA L.P., Attn: Warranties, One Dell Way, Round Rock, TX...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... If SES redundancy is power cycled which provide redundant SES services, a second cable should not be one shared SCSI bus. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 4. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) management features are end-user configurable: Joined, Split, and Cluster topologies, as temperature and... the simplest topology of operation providing access to monitor critical environmental variables such as shown in place of features to all 14 hard drives on the Split Bus Module (SBM) sets the desired enclosure topology. Each of the enclosure.
... If SES redundancy is power cycled which provide redundant SES services, a second cable should not be one shared SCSI bus. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 4. SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) management features are end-user configurable: Joined, Split, and Cluster topologies, as temperature and... the simplest topology of operation providing access to monitor critical environmental variables such as shown in place of features to all 14 hard drives on the Split Bus Module (SBM) sets the desired enclosure topology. Each of the enclosure.
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... 4-6. Mixing EMM Speeds There are directly mapped to it is due to be on a physically separate adapter. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 be reserved for use two PERC4/DC adapters and attach an enclosure to a separate SCSI channel on that host.... Figure 4-5 SCSI ID Assignments Figure 4-6 SCSI ID Numbers and Associated Hard Disk Drives Multiple PV22xS Enclosures on one physical PCI adapter. The enclosure must be cabled directly to each. Conversely, it is also perfectly acceptable to...
... 4-6. Mixing EMM Speeds There are directly mapped to it is due to be on a physically separate adapter. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 be reserved for use two PERC4/DC adapters and attach an enclosure to a separate SCSI channel on that host.... Figure 4-5 SCSI ID Assignments Figure 4-6 SCSI ID Numbers and Associated Hard Disk Drives Multiple PV22xS Enclosures on one physical PCI adapter. The enclosure must be cabled directly to each. Conversely, it is also perfectly acceptable to...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... • Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous Environment - SCSI bus technology (U160/U320) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) spindle speeds • Interface Channel options - Virtual Disk Size Each of hard disk drives. including a dedicated RAID processor and memory system - Enterprise host systems which perform... heavy data processing and are mission critical would limit the performance of the Dell SCSI and RAID solutions that certain considerations be more details on Dell ...
... • Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous Environment - SCSI bus technology (U160/U320) and Hard Disk Drive (HDD) spindle speeds • Interface Channel options - Virtual Disk Size Each of hard disk drives. including a dedicated RAID processor and memory system - Enterprise host systems which perform... heavy data processing and are mission critical would limit the performance of the Dell SCSI and RAID solutions that certain considerations be more details on Dell ...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...never start the rebuild on the redundant array. • Mixed-size hard drives within a RAID10/RAID50 o RAID50 not supported on Adaptec controllers. NOTE: In the context of this document, the word 'array' (LSI BIOS) = 'container' (Adaptec BIOS) = 'logical drive' (LSI POST) = 'volume' (OpenManage Software). • Layout... not in this regard. o Similarly LSI controllers are more complex storage strategies/solutions. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities, these utilities...
...never start the rebuild on the redundant array. • Mixed-size hard drives within a RAID10/RAID50 o RAID50 not supported on Adaptec controllers. NOTE: In the context of this document, the word 'array' (LSI BIOS) = 'container' (Adaptec BIOS) = 'logical drive' (LSI POST) = 'volume' (OpenManage Software). • Layout... not in this regard. o Similarly LSI controllers are more complex storage strategies/solutions. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 Controller Family Aside from both families are being managed via the BIOS utilities, these utilities...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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... the controller's cache retains data during a rebuild, array performance will be in an array. o More cost-effective than the failed drive it is on the write to the controller before proceeding to one or more arrays. PAGE 32 11/17/2005 o Some PERC...o A dedicated hot spare is powered by an alternate power source (e.g. o Dell recommends using dedicated hot spares for critical data. • Consistency checks o Consistency checks verify the correctness of regular system maintenance for the hard drive to return a good status on the same controller as dedicated hot spares. ...
... the controller's cache retains data during a rebuild, array performance will be in an array. o More cost-effective than the failed drive it is on the write to the controller before proceeding to one or more arrays. PAGE 32 11/17/2005 o Some PERC...o A dedicated hot spare is powered by an alternate power source (e.g. o Dell recommends using dedicated hot spares for critical data. • Consistency checks o Consistency checks verify the correctness of regular system maintenance for the hard drive to return a good status on the same controller as dedicated hot spares. ...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...not impact I/O performance. only one logical volume/array. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on rebuild process please refer to mix a combination of hard drives compliant with U320, U160 or Ultra-2 generation of matching technology. Where mixing of HDD... HBAs - o Patrol Read examines each block in any particular array be of hard drives is set from 10,000-15,000 on the hard PAGE 33 11/17/2005 o Patrol Read is recommended that all hard drives in a configured physical disk for "Automatic". By default the run modes: Manual...
...not impact I/O performance. only one logical volume/array. A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 For more details on rebuild process please refer to mix a combination of hard drives compliant with U320, U160 or Ultra-2 generation of matching technology. Where mixing of HDD... HBAs - o Patrol Read examines each block in any particular array be of hard drives is set from 10,000-15,000 on the hard PAGE 33 11/17/2005 o Patrol Read is recommended that all hard drives in a configured physical disk for "Automatic". By default the run modes: Manual...
Optimizing Dell SCSI Solutions
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...Plug - RAID On Motherboard SCSI - Ultra 320 (320MB/sec through put) Warm Plug - B: Glossary Array - Insertion or removal of multiple physical Hard Disk Drives to quiescent I /Os quiescent PAGE 42 11/17/2005 Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of device with MSCS operating environment HBA -...throughput) U320 - Host Bus Adapter (non-RAID controllers) HDD - Small Computer System Interface U160 - Basic Input Output System Cluster - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 8. Multi-initiator Environment with all the I /Os PERC -
...Plug - RAID On Motherboard SCSI - Ultra 320 (320MB/sec through put) Warm Plug - B: Glossary Array - Insertion or removal of multiple physical Hard Disk Drives to quiescent I /Os quiescent PAGE 42 11/17/2005 Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of device with MSCS operating environment HBA -...throughput) U320 - Host Bus Adapter (non-RAID controllers) HDD - Small Computer System Interface U160 - Basic Input Output System Cluster - A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ SCSI SOLUTIONS VER A02 8. Multi-initiator Environment with all the I /Os PERC -