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Question posted by sandippatil on April 21st, 2012
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What are the firmware update for ps6500e after 5.0.7.
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Configuration Guide - Page 2
.... Microsoft™, Windows™, Windows Server™, and Active Directory™ are trademarks of Dell Inc.
Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
i Reproduction of Broadcom Corporation. Revision History
Revision v11.1 v11.2 V11.3
Date April 2010 July 2010 Oct 2010
Changes Updated content. Quarterly version cycle update: content additions and edits. THE CONTENT...
Configuration Guide - Page 3
... 1.1 Audience...1 1.2 Document Structure 1
2 PS Series Storage Arrays 2 2.1 Array Models 2 2.2 Feature Comparison 3 2.3 Controllers ...4 2.3.1 Controller Types 4 2.3.2 Controller Redundancy 5 2.3.3 Controller Failover 5 2.3.4 Firmware 7 2.4 RAID Policies 9 2.4.1 RAID 5...9 2.4.2 RAID 6...10 2.4.3 RAID 10 11 2.4.4 RAID 50 12
3 Peer Storage Operations 14 3.1 Groups ...14 3.2 Pools...14...
Configuration Guide - Page 7
... one or more independent arrays.
PS2400E
PS3000X, PS3x00XV PS4000E
PS4000X, PS4000XV PS5000E
PS5000X, PS5000XV PS5500E PS6000E
PS6000X, PS6000XV PS6000S, PS6010S
PS6010E PS6010X, PS6010XV PS6000XVS, PS6010XVS
PS6500E PS6510E
Drive Type
SATA
SAS SATA SAS SATA SAS SATA SATA SAS SSD SATA SAS SAS / SSD SATA SATA
Number of information regarding the PS...
Configuration Guide - Page 8
...Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
3
The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series provides a subset of features and capabilities, targeted at remote office and small to controller firmware level 4.x.x (b) Beginning with controller firmware level 5.x.x
Table 2: Array Feature Comparison
Group with PS4000 Only
2 2 256 2 2048 128 128 2 1 8 100
256 with the EqualLogic PS Series storage products...
Configuration Guide - Page 12
...is released to identify the "major" release number. Figure 2 Fully Connected Controller Failover
2.3.4 Firmware Each EqualLogic PS Series array runs a core operating system in the features and functionality.
&#...new features are made for general maintenance improvements. The firmware version is defined using a version number and will be updated from time to time as new minor features or ...
Configuration Guide - Page 13
... paths
In addition to version 5.0.x) are shown in the following document (Support ID required for login access):
PS Series Storage Arrays: Updating Storage Array Firmware, available at http://www.equallogic.com/support/ (Support ID required for service disruption Operating system and iSCSI initiator configuration settings that will be included ...
Configuration Guide - Page 19
...storage pool. Regardless of the name of this would be out of sync while upgrading the firmware on different arrays in the same group running different maintenance release levels, as long as part...Tiered storage is storage that is differentiated and optimized for short term time periods when array firmware versions may be different arrays in a group is called the ―default pool‖ ...
Configuration Guide - Page 20
... group can have up to the user as iSCSI targets by hosts and are presented to 4 pools. PS5500E, PS6500E/X and PS6510E/X must reside in a different pool from other arrays. PS5500E, PS6500E/X and PS6510E/X can coexist in a PS Series Group
The following best practices should be considered for storage pools:
...
Configuration Guide - Page 30
...o 802.3
iSNS Support An Internet Storage Name Service3 (iSNS) server can affect SAN performance.
Note: Hosts can be operated in ...related to network design and configuration to communicate with Firmware V4.1.4, volume and snapshot identifiers are required to ...for Internet Hosts - Because of group members by dynamically updating information about the iSCSI target names for group volumes. ...
Configuration Guide - Page 37
...additional dualport PCI-E NIC installed.
Table 18 below .
Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
32 4.4 Host Configuration Guidelines
4.4.1 Recommendations for connecting to the server LAN. A redundant NIC configuration on the server requires at least two NICs installed into separate PCI slots in Redundant SANs Designing a redundant SAN requires the availability of redundant NICs...
Configuration Guide - Page 38
...SAN using two installed PCI-E NICs
Note: As a best practice, we recommend using the same NIC devices in your server for access to an EqualLogic SAN. For storage, the preferred method of redundant connection is installed into a single, .... Though some storage solution can support 8 or more PCIe lanes.
4.4.2 Multi-Path I/O There are generally two types of server configuration management.
Configuration Guide - Page 45
... consider using Blade I/O modules as described in this section assume that Fabric A is not available for all switches within each blade I/O module stack for blade server integration with EqualLogic SANs. 5 M1000e Blade Chassis Integration
M1000e (or any external switches into a single stack as described in Section 4.3. Interconnect blade I/O stack(s) with...
Configuration Guide - Page 48
The actual number will depend on both the number of 10GbE ports available on each blade server's optional Ethernet mezzanine card to two 10GbE X2 ports and the Cisco 3750-E can be used when connecting
Aggregate at least two 10GbE ports ...
Configuration Guide - Page 53
from all individual member IP addresses to all individual member IP addresses
E-mail and diagnostic notifications; to the configured SMTP server
Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
48 EqualLogic Diagnostics
TCP
20
FTP
TCP
25
SMTP
Table 22 Optional Ports and Protocols
Software update and diagnostic procedures;
Configuration Guide - Page 54
... Catalyst 4948 Catalyst 4900M Catalyst 3750E Catalyst 3750-G CBS M3130X PowerConnect 6224, 6248 PowerConnect J-EX4200-48 PowerConnect M6348 PowerConnect M6220
Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
Firmware Level Tested 05.0.01T7e1
04.3.00T73e1 06.0.00T7f1 12.2(40)SG 12.2(40)SG 12.2(35)SE5
(latest) (latest) 2.2.0.3 10.2R1.8 3.1.3.9 2.2.0.3
49 We will be...
Configuration Guide - Page 56
... 4 (U3 or later) Suse Linux 9 Suse Linux 10.1 Suse Enterprise Linux 10 Suse Enterprise Linux 11 VMware ESX Server 3.x VMware vSphere 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2008R2 Microsoft Windows 2008 Microsoft Windows 2003 Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Windows Vista Solaris 9 Solaris 10 RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3
51 Appendix...
Configuration Guide - Page 57
... Suse Linux 10.1 Suse Enterprise Linux 10 Suse Enterprise Linux 11 VMware ESX Server 3.x VMware vSphere 4.0
Vendor Alacritech ArtisTech Atto Technology Cisco Citrix
HP IBM
Microsoft...update only)
AIX 5.2 ML03 or later
Windows Server 2008-R2 Windows Server 2008 (All SPs) Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003-R2 + SP2 Windows Storage Server 2003-R2 Windows Storage Server...
Configuration Guide - Page 58
...Initiator 4
ESX Server 3.5 u5 ...Server 2008-R2 Windows Server 2008 (All SPs) Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003-R2 + SP2 Windows Storage Server 2003R2 Windows Storage Server 2003R2 SP2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003-R2 + SP2 Windows Vista
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server...
Configuration Guide - Page 71
... Review and Highlights Benefits and Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in a VMware ESX Server Environment using Dell EqualLogic 10GbE iSCSI Storage (EqualLogic support site...Series Network Performance Guidelines Dell Reference Architecture Implementation Guide for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in a Virtualized Environment using EqualLogic PS Series Storage Dell Reference...
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