Comments on: Dell MD3000 – Great DAS DB Storage

By: Krypto77

Krypto77 — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:33:54 +0000

We recently got a new MD3000 with 3 1TB HD. Dell said we can purcahse non Dell HD. Has anyone done this? If so, did ti work? How did you get it to work? Any help would be greak

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:40:09 +0000

Significant Upgrade Now Available for the MD3000 and MD3000i – Generation 2

Please see:

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19247968/19...

By: Rhafyuhp

Rhafyuhp — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:29:11 +0000

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By: Rdnkrqwh

Rdnkrqwh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:24:35 +0000

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Zixxiruz — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:12:46 +0000

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By: Scott Ehrlich

Scott Ehrlich — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:49:22 +0000

I purchased an MD3000i, purchased the snapshot premium feature, using the MD Storage Manager partitioned space in a raid set for snapshots and assigned said space for snapshots. Now, of all Dell’s documentation I have, nothing tells me how to actually configure the allocated snapshot space to take snapshots of any of the RAIDs I created (happen to be two x RAID 5), schedule snapshots, or anything else.

How do I fully manage snapshots beyond allocating space for them? I happen to be using CentOS 5.2 (same as RHEL 5.2).

Thanks.

By: Craig Smith

Craig Smith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:55:32 +0000

All,

I am wondering if anyone has successfully got this to play with (OPEN)Solaris?

I am struggling to get more than one LUN to be usable in OpenSolaris. I am able to see the target, and after I call the command “devfsadm -i iscsi” and then “format” I can see all the disks (they even show as coming from a md3000i). When I try to select any drive after the initial LUN I get a disk can not be opened error and am unable to label or format the iscsi drive.

Am I banging my head on the wall for no reason with this?

By: tech

tech — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:42:54 +0000

Acclaim PC services:

you are correct about the dell markup on drives/caddies, however, ive found you CAN use SOME ‘non-supported’ sata and sas disks. off the shelf WD5000YS works with the proper sata interposer board.

gripes: ‘cli’ should be via ssh. also important commands from cli not included in gui… why?

By: Sydney Kirtan

Sydney Kirtan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:07:21 +0000

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By: Acclaim PC Services

Acclaim PC Services — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:02:18 +0000

This unit is terrible. They shipped me one with the incorrect drives in it and now won’t replace them with the correct ones due to their ordering system messing up.

Dell customer service is by far the WORST of any company.

Oh and don’t even think about getting cheap drives for the unit. Dell sells the hard drives at over 500% retail markup and they have microcoded the MD3000 to ONLY and I mean ONLY (This means even if you buy the same model from the HCL direct from the HDD manufacturers it won’t work) work with dell purchased drives.

I don’t know why everyone on review sites gives this a thumbs up. The only thing this thing is good for is a nice large paperweight with flashing lights.