Help with md3000i

[Scott R. Ehrlich]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Robin Kearney wrote:

>
> On 26 Jul 2008, at 08:33, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
>
>> I just unpacked a new 2950 III and MD3000i.   I also obtained a couple
>> Intel Gigabit cards for iSCSI redundancy.   As soon as the hardware
>> was
>> out of the box, I powered on the 3000i, used a crossover cable
>> between the
>> 2950 and 3000i, and installed CentOS 5.0, then the 3000i software
>> from the
>> included CD.

Well, I did a little research on Dell's support and documentation area of 
its web site, and found "About Your Storage Array" for the md3000i.   I 
somehow didn't see or get that document with my unit.

Page 2 has a section called "Out-of-Band and In-Band Management", with a 
note about the RAID controller network module's netwoork management.
The note says the configuration will default to dhcp, then, if it does 
not receive a response in 10 seconds, will default to 192.168.128.x.

That note provided exactly what I needed.   I had purchased two additional 
Intel gigabit nics just for this device.  I configured them to 
192.168.128.x and y respectively (I'll bond them later), and, within 
minutes, I'm talking to and configuring the box.

I received a direct response from one person saying I first needed a 
Windows box for setup.   This proves that is not the case.

Hope this helps others.

Next question - anyone know if logical RAID volumes on this device can be 
dynamically adjusted (say I configure all drives as one monster RAID 5, 
then, later, am asked if the partition can be resized)?

Thanks.

Scott