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.... This document is provided on the device described in this document in this document or as expected, see your Owner's Manual. NOM Information The following information is available online at support.dell.com/ manuals. • The Administrator's Guide provides information about system hardware features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or...
.... This document is provided on the device described in this document in this document or as expected, see your Owner's Manual. NOM Information The following information is available online at support.dell.com/ manuals. • The Administrator's Guide provides information about system hardware features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or...
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...: For information on supported expanded operating temperature range and configurations, see the Owner's Manual at 1 °C/300 m (1 °F per power supply) Wattage 1,755 W Heat dissipation (maximum) 5988 BTU/hr NOTE: Heat dissipation is also designed to be connected to support.dell.com. Storage -40 °C to 65 °C (-40 °F to 80% relative...
...: For information on supported expanded operating temperature range and configurations, see the Owner's Manual at 1 °C/300 m (1 °F per power supply) Wattage 1,755 W Heat dissipation (maximum) 5988 BTU/hr NOTE: Heat dissipation is also designed to be connected to support.dell.com. Storage -40 °C to 65 °C (-40 °F to 80% relative...
Owner's Manual
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Dell PowerVault MD3260/3260i/3660i/3660f/3060e Storage Arrays Owner's Manual Regulatory Model: E08J Series Regulatory Type: E08J001
Dell PowerVault MD3260/3260i/3660i/3660f/3060e Storage Arrays Owner's Manual Regulatory Model: E08J Series Regulatory Type: E08J001
Owner's Manual
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...176;C maximum dew point. Derate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature at support.dell.com/manuals. NOTE: For information on supported expanded operating temperature range and configurations, see dell.com/environmental_datasheets. Storage Relative humidity Operating Storage Maximum vibration Operating Storage -40 ...DC, 1100 mAh, 7.26 W Lithium ion battery Environmental NOTE: For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system configurations, see the Owner's Manual at 1 °C/300 m (1 °F per hour 5% to 95% at a maximum wet bulb temperature of 20 °C...
...176;C maximum dew point. Derate maximum allowable dry bulb temperature at support.dell.com/manuals. NOTE: For information on supported expanded operating temperature range and configurations, see dell.com/environmental_datasheets. Storage Relative humidity Operating Storage Maximum vibration Operating Storage -40 ...DC, 1100 mAh, 7.26 W Lithium ion battery Environmental NOTE: For additional information about environmental measurements for specific system configurations, see the Owner's Manual at 1 °C/300 m (1 °F per hour 5% to 95% at a maximum wet bulb temperature of 20 °C...
Administrator's Guide
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... hardware. • The Owner's Manual provides information about system features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or replace system components. • The CLI Guide provides information about using the command line interface (CLI). • The MD Series resource media contains all system management tools. • The Dell PowerVault MD3260, MD3260i, MD3660i, MD3660f...
... hardware. • The Owner's Manual provides information about system features and describes how to troubleshoot the system and install or replace system components. • The CLI Guide provides information about using the command line interface (CLI). • The MD Series resource media contains all system management tools. • The Dell PowerVault MD3260, MD3260i, MD3660i, MD3660f...
Administrator's Guide
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... I/O. Multiple options for load balancing the workload of the RAID controller modules. Multi-Path Software Multi-path software (also referred to as the owner of a virtual disk or disk group. NOTE: Multi-path software is the software resident on the MD Series Dense storage arrays resource DVD....by the MD Storage Manager when a virtual disk is used to automatically build and view virtual disks. If virtual disk ownership is not manually balanced, it is a RAID controller module designated as the failover driver) is available on the host server that provides management of the redundant...
... I/O. Multiple options for load balancing the workload of the RAID controller modules. Multi-Path Software Multi-path software (also referred to as the owner of a virtual disk or disk group. NOTE: Multi-path software is the software resident on the MD Series Dense storage arrays resource DVD....by the MD Storage Manager when a virtual disk is used to automatically build and view virtual disks. If virtual disk ownership is not manually balanced, it is a RAID controller module designated as the failover driver) is available on the host server that provides management of the redundant...
Administrator's Guide
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...written to the primary virtual disk. • Write requests to the primary virtual disk are logged. • The RAID controller module owner sends an I/O completion message to the host sending the write request. Select either suspended, or become unsynchronized. Automatic - The Change ... Storage & Copy Services tab. 2. Although the host can occur if communication is displayed. 3. Select Change → Synchronization Settings. Manual - Click OK. Writes to the secondary virtual disk are resynchronized, only data that may render the secondary storage array unusable, an interrupted...
...written to the primary virtual disk. • Write requests to the primary virtual disk are logged. • The RAID controller module owner sends an I/O completion message to the host sending the write request. Select either suspended, or become unsynchronized. Automatic - The Change ... Storage & Copy Services tab. 2. Although the host can occur if communication is displayed. 3. Select Change → Synchronization Settings. Manual - Click OK. Writes to the secondary virtual disk are resynchronized, only data that may render the secondary storage array unusable, an interrupted...
CLI Guide
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...need to perform operations more than once (such as the Microsoft Windows command prompt (C:\) or a Linux operating system terminal. See the Owner's Manual, which is the graphical user interface (GUI) to the storage array. A script file can be accessed from the command line and...storage arrays to a specific storage array and rapidly enter a command, determine the effect on support.dell.com and read the updates first because they often supersede information in the Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager software (MD Storage Manager). Interactive mode enables you need to a script ...
...need to perform operations more than once (such as the Microsoft Windows command prompt (C:\) or a Linux operating system terminal. See the Owner's Manual, which is the graphical user interface (GUI) to the storage array. A script file can be accessed from the command line and...storage arrays to a specific storage array and rapidly enter a command, determine the effect on support.dell.com and read the updates first because they often supersede information in the Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager software (MD Storage Manager). Interactive mode enables you need to a script ...
CLI Guide
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... • Which hosts have an additional requirement when entering names in the online help, the Deployment Guide, the MD Storage Manager online help, and the Owner's Manual. In general, you configure a storage array by the RAID level, hardware redundancy (such as global hot spares), and software redundancy (such as various structures that...
... • Which hosts have an additional requirement when entering names in the online help, the Deployment Guide, the MD Storage Manager online help, and the Owner's Manual. In general, you configure a storage array by the RAID level, hardware redundancy (such as global hot spares), and software redundancy (such as various structures that...
CLI Guide
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...• Provide quick, frequent, nondisruptive backups; Table 9. Additional information about the Snapshot feature and related definitions is available in the Owner's Manual. The application reads the data while the source virtual disk remains online and user accessible. You can make it is not a physical... to create snapshot virtual disks. Follow the directions on a source virtual disk at a particular point in -time image of your Dell PowerVault MD storage array. Because it accessible to any host on a storage area network. NOTE: If you ordered Premium Features for the...
...• Provide quick, frequent, nondisruptive backups; Table 9. Additional information about the Snapshot feature and related definitions is available in the Owner's Manual. The application reads the data while the source virtual disk remains online and user accessible. You can make it is not a physical... to create snapshot virtual disks. Follow the directions on a source virtual disk at a particular point in -time image of your Dell PowerVault MD storage array. Because it accessible to any host on a storage area network. NOTE: If you ordered Premium Features for the...
CLI Guide
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... from the available physical disks when defining your Windows system, flush the cache to the source. 2. Enclose the file path and file name in the Owner's Manual for the Snapshot. Using your storage array configuration. Before creating a snapshot virtual disk, the server has to enable the feature. When you choose the physical...
... from the available physical disks when defining your Windows system, flush the cache to the source. 2. Enclose the file path and file name in the Owner's Manual for the Snapshot. Using your storage array configuration. Before creating a snapshot virtual disk, the server has to enable the feature. When you choose the physical...
CLI Guide
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... to ensure that the host server is deleted. • Snapshot virtual disk and snapshot repository virtual disk parameters remain the same as specified in the Owner's Manual for your operating system documentation. NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk in Windows or unmounting the virtual drive in Linux to...
... to ensure that the host server is deleted. • Snapshot virtual disk and snapshot repository virtual disk parameters remain the same as specified in the Owner's Manual for your operating system documentation. NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk in Windows or unmounting the virtual drive in Linux to...
CLI Guide
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...Dell PowerVault MD storage array. Activates the Virtual Disk Copy feature. Additional information about a specific virtual disk copy pair, or all virtual disk copy pairs in the same box as the source Virtual Disk. Virtual Disk Copy" in the online help, the Deployment Guide, the MD Storage Manager online help, and the Owner's Manual... describes what the commands do. You can retrieve information about Virtual Disk Copy and related definitions is available in the Owner's Manual. NOTE: The Virtual Disk Copy for any Virtual Disk cannot be mounted on the card to obtain a key file...
...Dell PowerVault MD storage array. Activates the Virtual Disk Copy feature. Additional information about a specific virtual disk copy pair, or all virtual disk copy pairs in the same box as the source Virtual Disk. Virtual Disk Copy" in the online help, the Deployment Guide, the MD Storage Manager online help, and the Owner's Manual... describes what the commands do. You can retrieve information about Virtual Disk Copy and related definitions is available in the Owner's Manual. NOTE: The Virtual Disk Copy for any Virtual Disk cannot be mounted on the card to obtain a key file...
CLI Guide
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... a virtual disk copy, you can either removing the Virtual Disk Copy Pair or explicitly setting write permission. - Stop all I /O activity. See "SMrepassist Utility" in the Owner's Manual for your operating system. Failure to copy the virtual disk. The following steps: 1. NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows...
... a virtual disk copy, you can either removing the Virtual Disk Copy Pair or explicitly setting write permission. - Stop all I /O activity. See "SMrepassist Utility" in the Owner's Manual for your operating system. Failure to copy the virtual disk. The following steps: 1. NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows...
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Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) virtual disk in Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in the Owner's Manual for an existing copy pair, both the source and the target virtual disk (if mounted). NOTE: If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can ...
Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) virtual disk in Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in the Owner's Manual for an existing copy pair, both the source and the target virtual disk (if mounted). NOTE: If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can ...
CLI Guide
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... virtual disk error is corrected (the secondary virtual disk is transparent to the primary host. In this case, the remote write operation cannot be started manually, depending on the primary storage array. Asynchronous Write Mode Asynchronous write mode offers faster host I /O complete" indication back to the host system, without acknowledging ... pair into an Unsynchronized state and sends an I /O completion indication back to the primary virtual disk. Resynchronization Data replication between the RAID controller module owner of the primary virtual disk and the RAID controller module...
... virtual disk error is corrected (the secondary virtual disk is transparent to the primary host. In this case, the remote write operation cannot be started manually, depending on the primary storage array. Asynchronous Write Mode Asynchronous write mode offers faster host I /O complete" indication back to the host system, without acknowledging ... pair into an Unsynchronized state and sends an I /O completion indication back to the primary virtual disk. Resynchronization Data replication between the RAID controller module owner of the primary virtual disk and the RAID controller module...
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... segment size increases. Amount of the enclosure. For information about the segmentSize parameter, see Security Type. NOTE: The owner parameter defines which RAID controller module owns the virtual disk. The preferred RAID controller module ownership of having security set...disk is TRUE. Create RAID Virtual Disk (Manual Physical Disk Select) This command creates a new disk group and virtual disk, and enables you do not specify an owner, the RAID controller module firmware determines the owner. Parameter cacheReadPrefetch segmentSize usageHint dssPreAllocate securityType Description...
... segment size increases. Amount of the enclosure. For information about the segmentSize parameter, see Security Type. NOTE: The owner parameter defines which RAID controller module owns the virtual disk. The preferred RAID controller module ownership of having security set...disk is TRUE. Create RAID Virtual Disk (Manual Physical Disk Select) This command creates a new disk group and virtual disk, and enables you do not specify an owner, the RAID controller module firmware determines the owner. Parameter cacheReadPrefetch segmentSize usageHint dssPreAllocate securityType Description...
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... | newRepositoryCapacity=newRepositoryCapacityValue [repositoryMaxCapacity=repositoryMaxCapacityValue[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes] ] | [warningThresholdPercent=warningThresholdPercentValue ] | [repositoryExpansionPolicy=(automatic|manual) ] | [cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)] | [segmentSize=segmentSizeValue] | [usageHint=(fileSystem | dataBase | multiMedia)] Parameters Parameter Description capacity The size of the syntax: • capacity=500MB • capacity=2GB owner The RAID controller module that owns the virtual disk. Size is the RAID...
... | newRepositoryCapacity=newRepositoryCapacityValue [repositoryMaxCapacity=repositoryMaxCapacityValue[KB|MB|GB|TB|Bytes] ] | [warningThresholdPercent=warningThresholdPercentValue ] | [repositoryExpansionPolicy=(automatic|manual) ] | [cacheReadPrefetch=(TRUE | FALSE)] | [segmentSize=segmentSizeValue] | [usageHint=(fileSystem | dataBase | multiMedia)] Parameters Parameter Description capacity The size of the syntax: • capacity=500MB • capacity=2GB owner The RAID controller module that owns the virtual disk. Size is the RAID...
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... virtual disk for a remote replication pair. The default option is determined by the RAID controller module firmware. Valid values are automatic and manual. Valid values are from 1 to TRUE. The default value is none. If you want to map later, set this parameter to ... notPreserved) writeMode=(synchronous | asynchronous)] Parameters 120 Parameter mapping warningThreshold repositoryExpansionPolicy cacheReadPrefetch segmentSize usageHint Description the RAID controller module firmware determines the owner. Create Remote Replication NOTE: This command is mapped to FALSE.
... virtual disk for a remote replication pair. The default option is determined by the RAID controller module firmware. Valid values are automatic and manual. Valid values are from 1 to TRUE. The default value is none. If you want to map later, set this parameter to ... notPreserved) writeMode=(synchronous | asynchronous)] Parameters 120 Parameter mapping warningThreshold repositoryExpansionPolicy cacheReadPrefetch segmentSize usageHint Description the RAID controller module firmware determines the owner. Create Remote Replication NOTE: This command is mapped to FALSE.
Information Update
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... overview of setting up your system and technical specifications. • The Owner's Manual provides information about using the command line interface (CLI). • The Rack Installation instructions provide information on how to rack your system • The Setting Up Your Dell PowerVault MD3260/3260i/3660i/3660f Storage Array instructions provide information on how to set...
... overview of setting up your system and technical specifications. • The Owner's Manual provides information about using the command line interface (CLI). • The Rack Installation instructions provide information on how to rack your system • The Setting Up Your Dell PowerVault MD3260/3260i/3660i/3660f Storage Array instructions provide information on how to set...