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Dell™PowerVault™NX1950SystemsImportantInformation

Critical System Information

Installation and Setup Issues

Deployment Issues

Management Issues

Upgrade Issues

Model EMU01

Notes and Notices

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Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems Important Information Critical System Information Installation and Setup Issues Deployment Issues Management Issues Upgrade Issues Model EMU01 Notes and Notices NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2006–2008 Dell Inc.
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Back to Contents Page Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems Important Information Critical System Information Installation and Setup Issues Deployment Issues Management Issues Upgrade Issues This document provides important information about Microsoft® Windows® Unified Data Storage Server 2003 operating system installed on your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 storage solution.
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6. Add the registry key located at: software\Microsoft\iSCSI Target. Select the WinTarget resource and bring it online. Disable the firewall and delete the cache file located at% APPDATA%\Microsoft\MMC\nas2. 9. Start the Microsoft iSCSI Target Service. 10. Launch the PowerVault NX1950 Management Console. 7. 8. NOTE: It is recommended you configure iSCSI traffic on a dedicated network separate from the one you use for file share access.
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Issue Description Workaround/Solution RAID 1 and RAID 10 are both reported as RAID1_0 and are referred to as mirrored You have an option to create either a RAID 5 or a mirrored LUN. When you create a mirrored LUN, the default is two disks, which is actually striping with mirroring without parity and not a mirrored LUN. This is working as designed.
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wizard. When the privileged users list is populated, all administrator users that are not a part of this list cannot access the storage array and manage the LUNs that are created. Default time for scheduling task when idle is 10 minutes and cannot be reset The value for Schedule Task When Idle cannot be set This is a known issue. to a different value. The value you enter is not retained and the default value—10 minutes—is used.
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l l l l l l l The Action Pane displays More Actions instead of List of Actions port = 1039: NSM port = 25: Storage Processor port = 443: Java CLI/Secure port = 137: NetBIOS TCP port = 139: NetBIOS Session Service port = 445: SMB over TCP port = 3389: Remote Desktop The Action pane in the PowerVault NX1950 This feature is working as designed. Management Console displays the menu name as More Actions instead of List of Actions. When you click More Actions, the menu is displayed.
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The Microsoft Management Console hangs The Microsoft Management Console may hang when multiple Storage Manager for SANs provisioning operations run in parallel through the Async feature. Do not perform more than four provisioning operations simultaneously. LUN is not accessible After you successfully create a LUN using Storage Manager for SANs, the LUN is not accessible from the Disk Management wizard.
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6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Disk ¡ Group: Choose Cluster Group Click Next. Verify that all cluster nodes are in the Possible Owners window and click Next. Select the following dependencies: ¡ Cluster IP Address ¡ Cluster Name ¡ Physical Disk of Choice Click Add and then click Next. Complete the wizard and then click Finish. Right-click Resource and choose Online. The disk is now a part of the cluster. In the Share and Storage Management window, refresh the Volumes tab.
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LUN - 'www' IVdsDisk.QueryExtents 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException - 'Exception from HRESULT: 0x80042444 Files to include and Files to exclude in the Files Group Properties window have the same file extensions. In the Files Group Properties window, the Files to include and Files to exclude lists may have the same file extensions. BERemote.exe terminates unexpectedly while protecting servers running Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 x64 operating system with Backup Exec 10.
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fails. In Gateway solutions, the Storage Manager for SANs console displays incorrect LUN size when LUN is greater than 2 TB. management or Diskpart utility. Any LUN that is greater than 2 TB is reported as 2 TB in the Storage Manager for SANs console In the Gateway solution, The reported initial maximum size can be extended based on the extension to maximum LUN size requirement of the RAID group it is a part of. The reported maximum size grows.