Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 2)

Array Password Reset Using Microsoft
Windows Server 2008
To reset a lost or forgotten password on an MD3000 array, a command must be
issued via the serial port on either controller in the array to clear the existing
password. This task is accomplished through COM port connection from a
server, workstation or laptop to a controller on the MD3000i array. On most
Windows operating systems, the HyperTerminal application is used to establish
the COM port connection to the serial port on the controller. However,
HyperTerminal is not available on Windows Server 2008 systems. Complete
the following steps to reset the password to an MD3000 array if your system
is running the Windows Server 2008 operating system:
1 Obtain a terminal application capable of COM port connections.
2 Configure the application to use the communication settings as described
on page 23 of the Dell ™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk Storage Manager User’s
Guide.
3 Proceed with the password reset procedure described on page 24 of the User’s
Guide.
Modular Disk Storage Manager
The following updates apply to the Modular Disk Storage Manager
(MD Storage Manager):
• When the MD Storage Manager is installed on Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
systems or SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Servers, or when the MD Storage
Manager is running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers, Japanese and
Simplified Chinese are not supported.
Physical Disk Migration
Cold power-up migration of physical disks from an MD3000i duplex
configuration to an MD3000 duplex configuration is supported only when
all physical disks are moved from one system to another. No other migrations,
including partial physical disk migration and RAID controller module migration,
are supported.