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Pedram

If you have Equallogic PS6000 series units and are using SFP+ network interfaces, I would like to know your comments and recommendations...

posted 6 days ago

Pavel V. 4 days ago • Edit • Have you checked this page: ... »

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☑ Willem

Who's experienced in changing online raid policy settings? Did you move from 10 to 50 and did it leave services up and running? How much...

posted 8 days ago

Donald W. 6 days ago • Edit • In the current SANHQ, you can use the 'RAID Evaluator' to help just what the long term performance difference will be using the RAID levels ... »

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Christian

ESG Analyst Study: EqualLogic offers 39% or better TCO over two leading storage vendors en.community.dell.com

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recently analyzed the total cost of storage ownership over five years for two theoretical customers at the small and large ends of the “medium-sized business” segment. ESG compared a Dell...

posted 22 days ago

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Eric

EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module for VMware® vSphere V1.1.0

Hello All,

The new MEM for VMware is now available on EqualLogic support website.

This version support VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 and ESXI ...

posted 3 months ago

Eder C. 2 months ago • Edit • Eder likes this. »

Julio

Do you know how to create Windows Roaming Profiles into EqualLogic Shares? 'cause I cant.

Wonder about if the DSFS is prepared for contain that type of data ...

posted 2 months ago

Brett S. 2 months ago • Edit • I would not do this as roaming profiles are just a bad idea. They take up so many resources they can ultimately down network. That is why it is ... »

Eric

Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Linux v1.1 now available

Host Integration Tools version 1.1 supports the following new features:

- Auto-Snapshot Manager/Linux Edition (ASM/LE) for Linux ...

posted 1 month ago

Rob K. 29 days ago • Edit • Rob likes this. »

Josh

Looking for advice on SAN solution

I am beginning the planning phase of a SAN / VMware implementation. I have been doing some reasearch on MD storage arrays and the ...

posted 2 months ago

Everett B. 1 month ago • Edit • Or instead of all that CAPEX you would spend look at utilizing a Cloud providers; or even if you go with your own gear and want to colo we ... »

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Terry

DELL view on vSphere I/O policy in vCentre...

Good morning everyone,
Do you have any accurate information relating to the following, I have read the vSphere 5 with DELL Equallogic ...

posted 1 month ago

Donald W. 1 month ago • Edit • You are very welcome. Here's a small script that will change all the EQL volumes to Round Robin and then change the IOPS value to 3. ... »

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Eric

New product introduction: PS6110/PS4110 & New Generation PowerEdge Server 12G

Hello All,

I'm please to announce the new 10Gb Ethernet EqualLogic array: PS6110 and PS4110.

Both of these new PS series arrays ...

posted 3 months ago

Eric D. 1 month ago • Edit • A typo on the product description: ... »

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Teresa

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posted 1 month ago

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Vanessa

Question on Share - Equallogic & Windows 2008

Teh person that setup our equallogic volumes, etc. left.
Our Win 2003 server that "hosted" the user shares on teh Equallogic SAN died ...

posted 6 months ago

Julio L. 2 months ago • Edit • Do you know if a share on a EQ 7500 NAS support the storing of roaming profiles? »

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Steven

Does anyone know where I can find a GUI simulator for the EqualLogic? I know there used to be one around, but don't seem to have a copy.

posted 2 months ago

Daragh N. 2 months ago • Edit • Hi Steven, @Eric is right, if you are a partner, you can get the tool, which is a VMware Virtual Machine, and is current. It is a fantastic ... »

Pierre

I have a customer trying to squeeze as much performance out of our Equallogic SAN as possible.

One thing that we are looking at is disk alignment and block/cluster size at the OS level. I remember hearing or reading something that ...

posted 2 months ago

Mike S. 2 months ago • Edit • Here's a document on aligning the disks on a Windows OS: https://www.equallogic.com/uploadedFiles/Resources/Tech_Reports/tr-ms-sector-align_TR1 ... »

Joshua

New guidelines for VMware iSCSI

Note that this pertains to 4.x and 5.
Someone let me know if you can find the Equallogic support doc referenced on the support site - ...

iSCSI Multipath for Equallogic round 3 sostech.wordpress.com

I posted a rather cryptic set of commands way back when, followed it with a script from Dell that would setup multipath on vSphere 4.x for you, then followed that with setting up MPIO in the GUI. ...

posted 4 months ago

Donald W. 3 months ago • Edit • MEM 1.1.0 has packages for both ESX(i) v4.1 and ESXi v5.0. So it's the same setup.pl script for both versions. ... »

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Paul

Failed drive and extremely slow recover

I have six arrays ranging from PS300E, PS400E to PS5500E. Firmware is 5.02 on all. This is the third time that a drive has failed and it ...

posted 3 months ago

Jonathan W. 3 months ago • Edit • I believe the ~4 drives per year is a little exaggerated, averaging about half that on ours, but then you have to remember that the PS6510E ... »

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