Dell PowerVault MD3000 User Manual

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Troubleshooting

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Make sure that the applicable network configuration tasks have been

done (for example, the IP addresses have been assigned to each

controller).

5 Make sure that the controller firmware is compatible with the MD Storage

Manager on your management station. If the controller firmware was

upgraded, the MD Storage Manager might not have access to the storage

array. A new version of MD Storage Manager might be needed to manage

the storage array with the new version of the controller firmware.
If this problem exists, see the Dell support website at

support.dell.com.

6 Look to see if there is too much network traffic to one or more controllers.

This problem corrects itself because the MD Storage Manager tries to re-

establish communication with the controllers in the storage array at

regular times. If the storage array was unresponsive and a subsequent try to

connect to the storage array succeeds, the storage array becomes

responsive.

7 For an out-of-band storage array, look to see if management operations are

taking place on the storage array from other storage management stations.

The type of management operations being done and the number of

management sessions taking place together establish the number of

TCP/IP connections made to a controller. When the maximum number of

TCP/IP connections have been made, the controller stops responding.

This problem corrects itself because after some TCP/IP connections

complete, the controller then becomes responsive to other connection

tries.

8 If the storage array is still unresponsive, problems might exist with the

controllers.
If these problems exist, see the Dell support website at

support.dell.com.

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