Dell dell power vault md storage arrays information update Installing VDS Interface Version 3.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hosts, Discovering iSCSI Storage Arrays and Working With Automatically Created Hosts

not enforce 120-physical disk limit when setting up a RAID 0 or RAID 10

configuration. Exceeding the 120-physical disk limit may cause your storage array

to be unstable.

Installing VDS Interface Version 3.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hosts

Installing MDSM from the Dell PowerVault MD Series Resource Media

automatically installs the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) provider

supporting VDS interface version 1.1. You can chose to install VDS interface

version 3.0 on host servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server

2008 R2 SP1. To install VDS interface version 3.0, see the VDS/VSS provider

readme file on the res ource media.

NOTE: When you instaIl VDS interface version 3.0 you cannot create and map LUNs to

the host server using the Windows Share and Storage Management (SSM). To create

and map a LUN with VDS interface version 3.0 installed, use DiskRAID utility commands

instead of Windows SSM.

NOTE: VDS interface version 3.0 is supported only on host servers running Windows

Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. All other operating systems must use

VDS interface version 1.1, which is installed by default during MDSM installation.

Discovering iSCSI Storage Arrays and Working With Automatically Created Hosts

The following considerations apply to PowerVault MD storage arrays in a

Microsoft clustering environment, using Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows

Server 2008 R2 SP1.

When using the PowerVault MD Configuration Utility (MDCU) to discover

PowerVault MD series iSCSI storage arrays using an in-band connection, a

communications error may occur. To resolve this issue, use the Discover via

Management Port option in the MDCU wizard.