I have a storage array with 2 DE6600 disk shelfs and 2 E5600 series controllers and SANTricity Manager 11.20. I have a disk pool with 60 drives (550 GB each drive) and its status shown in Recovery Guru is Failed. There is only one drive  with the status "Impending failure (reported by drive)" and mode "Drive copy pending" and all the other 59 drives in the pool are optimal. I have deleted a volume so that now the disk pool is occupied 75%. 25% of the disk pool capacity is free capacity (approx. 6TB; the totap capacity of the disk pool is 25TB). SANTricity Manager reports that Preservatio capacity (drives dedicated to preservation capacity) is 0. The problem is that I can not increase this number even if 25% percent of the total capacity of the disk pool is free capacity. And I can not change the status of the disk pool to omptimal. Can anyone give me an advice on this ?   Thank you, Adrian ... View more

I'm seeing a lot of iScsiPrt errors in Event Viewer and am not sure how to begin resolving them.  Event ID's are 1, 5, 7, 9, 20, 39, and 49.  All connections are to E-series.   Details for a few of the errors:   "Initiator failed to connect to the target. Target IP address and TCP Port number are given in dump data."   "Connection to the target was lost. The initiator will attempt to retry the connection."   "Target failed to respond in time to a Task Management request."   "Target did not respond in time for a SCSI request. The CDB is given in the dump data."   I initially went to my net admin, but he said there aren't any problems on the network.  I'm not really a storage admin, so help getting started is appreciated! ... View more

So I recently picked up a used and non-tested E-Series Chassis (Class 3560 - Model 0834) with one "Drive Module I/F-6" installed.  It was dirt-cheap so I thought it would be a good opportunity to get into the whole thematic of Storage Arrays.  Today I made my way up to installing the SANtricity Management Software and getting it to pick up the Chassis. Everything seems to be fine accept of a couple of errors that are probably all related to each other and most likely my error. Let me explain: at first I tried to Plug-In a Standard Sata Hard-Drive with 250GB of capacity which directly lead to the drive being bypassed. At first I thought there was some old configuration left on the controller so I searched how I could format it. The solution with SANtricity does not work for me as it spits out a "Error 101" that the operation can not be handled as no drives were detected or a drive was installed but not initialized. This kept happening regardless of the drive being installed or not. Through the CLI ( the one being accessible via Serial and pressing Break during boot up) I'm stuck at the login prompt where I can not guess the correct username/ password. The CLI Utility ( I guess its called SMI-S) isn't an option at the moment as my registration in the support section is still being processed.   So these is my Situation with the resulting questions: - Am I limited tom using original NetApp branded drives or is there an option to use off the shelf SATA/ SAS ones? - Are the mentioned errors all resulting of the not (properly) installed Storage Media? - Has someone an idea what the standard login is or how I could I reset it?   Thanks so much in advance! Hope to get the Chassis working ASAP. ... View more