Today a customer called me up. He had two EqualLogic units setup with replication from one to the other. After setting this up and verifying replication worked as expected he started to recieve e-mails like this: [ID: 4.18] Schedule <name of schedule> for volume <name of volume> has fewer than expected replicas. Expected 1, but […]
EqualLogic reclaim space from VMware ESXi datastore
Today I visited a customer to perform a health check. Their system consisted of VMware ESXi hosts running on EqualLogic SAN storage. The volumes on the EqualLogic were thin provisioned and one of them were running ALMOST full plus a good way beyond the warning limit. As you can see the usage is exceeding the […]
EqualLogic SAN Headquarters Unable to download manager file
Today a customer called me because he was unable to launch the EqualLogic Group Manager from within EqualLogic SAN HQ. It would load 16% and then show an error: Unable to download manager file There was an error downloading the file from the group. The EqualLogic Group was running firmware 5.2.2 and EqualLogic SAN HQ […]
Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches not stacking
Last week I was on-site with a customer to install two Dell Powerconnect 6224 switches for use with an EqualLogic SAN. The stack was not configured automatically. I used command show stack-port For some reason the switch detected the stacking modules as 10 Gigabit modules. Fortunately the CLI reference guide has the commands to configure […]
VMware vSphere CLI missing libxml2.dll
Today a customer called reporting unable to install the EqualLogic MEM module for VMware using vSphere CLI. He recieved the following error: The program can’t start because libxml2.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. A search on his computer revealed that the file was in fact installed together with vSphere […]
EqualLogic Firmware Upgrade error: Insufficient free space to extract the kernel file
Today I encountered a, to me, previously unseen error while attempting to upgrade the firmware of a customers EqualLogic PS4000 SAN. The error showed: Insufficient free space to extract the kernel file; required: 24 MB, available: 22 MB I connected using FTP to the dedicated management IP of the EqualLogic group […]