Dell PowerVault 705N Instruction Manual

Dell PowerVault 705N Release Notes 2.4 1
Dell™ PowerVault™ 705NDell™ PowerVault™ 705N
Dell™ PowerVault™ 705NDell™ PowerVault™ 705N
Dell™ PowerVault™ 705N
Version 2.4 Release NotesVersion 2.4 Release Notes
Version 2.4 Release NotesVersion 2.4 Release Notes
Version 2.4 Release Notes
OVERVIEW ............................................................ 4
705N SOFTWARE VERSIONS APPLICABLE TO THIS DOCUMENT .......................4
705N COMPATIBILITY WITH NETWORK CLIENT SOFTWARE ........................... 5
705N COMPATIBILITY WITH SERVERS ..................................................5
LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR FILE AND FOLDER NAMES ................................. 6
MACINTOSH ISSUES
CHANGING ACCOUNT PASSWORDS FROM THE WINDOWS SERVER ....................7
BACKING UP A705N FROM AMACINTOSH WORKSTATION ......................... 7
MICROSOFT WINDOWS ISSUES -- MICROSOFT NETWORKING
SOME WINDOWS CLIENTS REPORT FREE SPACE INACCURATELY ........................ 8
AUTOCAD USERS REPORT “FILE ISINUSE” ERROR MESSAGE ...................... 8
MICROSOFT WINDOWS ISSUES -- NOVELL NETWORKING
COMPATIBILITY WITH NOVELL INTRANETWARE CLIENTS ............................... 9
CONFIGURING EXTERNAL NETWARE SECURITY .......................................... 9
USING NOVELL NETWORKING BACKUP APPLICATIONS ................................ 10
NFS ISSUES
NEED TOMOUNT 705N NETWORK SHARES TOACCESS DATA ................... 13
AUTOMOUNT DOES NOT WORK WITH SUN SOLARIS VERSION 2.5.1 ............ 13
RPC ERROR MESSAGE ................................................................. 13
SYMBOLIC LINKS ARE NOT SUPPORTED ............................................... 13
USING LED PATTERNS TO DETERMINE THE SERVER’SSTATUS
SYNCHRONIZED SYSTEM AND DISK LED PATTERNS ................................... 14
RESTARTING A705N .................................................................. 16
RESETTING A705N .................................................................... 17

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ERROR MESSAGES
DISK DRIVE ERRORS ..................................................................... 19
FILE SYSTEM ERRORS .................................................................... 20
NETWORK TRANSMISSION ERRORS ...................................................... 21
NOVELL NETWORKING BACKUP AND RESTORE ERRORS ............................... 22

Dell PowerVault 705N Release Notes 2.4 3
Information in this document is subject to change with-
out notice.
Copyright
Copyright© 2000 Quantum Corporation. All rights re-
served. rinted in U.S.A.
Trademarks
Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL E COM logo,
and owerVault are trademarks of Dell Computer Corpo-
ration; Computer Associates and ARCserve are registered
trademarks and IT is a trademark of Computer Associ-
ates International Inc.; VERITAS and Backup Exec are
trademarks of Veritas Software Corporation. Microsoft,
Windows NT, and Windows are registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation. Novell and NetWare are registered
trademarks of Novell, Inc. Other trademarks and trade
names may be used in this document to refer to either
the entities claiming the marks and names or their prod-
ucts. Dell Computer Corporation disclaims any propri-
etary interest in trademarks and trade names other than
its own.
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Overview
This document supplements the Dell PowerVault 705N
Administrator Guide. It is strongly recommended that you
familiarize yourself with all of the relevant sections in
this document before you start using your 705N. For
software updates and up-to-date technical information,
check the Customer Support pages at
http://www.dell.com or http://support.dell.com.
705N software versions
applicable to this document
These notes apply to all 705Ns and configuration soft-
ware:
To identify the hardware, BIOS, and embedded soft-
ware versions, use the Web interface and click on
the DELL E COM  logo at the top of any owerVault
NAS page.
To determine the version of the owerVault Assist
utility, start the application, click on the icon in the
upper left corner of the dialog box, and select About
owerVault Assist
To determine the version of the owerVault I utility,
open the program and choose About owerVault I
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Dell PowerVault 705N Release Notes 2.4 5
705N Compatibility
With Network Client Software
A number of issues that may occur when the clients con-
nect to network servers are resolved by installing the lat-
est software updates, service packs, or patches on the
clients. For greater compatibility, performance, and reli-
ability, DELL strongly recommends that you upgrade your
client software as follows:
AppleShare Client 3.8.3, for MacOS Versions 7.6 to 8.6
AppleShare Client 3.8.6, for MacOS Version 9.0 (and later)
ovell® intraNetWare® Client 4.7 for Windows NT/2000
ovell® intraNetWare® Client 3.2 for Windows 95/98/Me
Microsoft® 2000 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows T® 4.0 Service Pack 6 (or higher)
Microsoft® Millennium Edition
Microsoft Windows 98 Service Pack 1 (Windows 98
Second Edition preferred)
Microsoft Windows 95 Service Pack 1 (version
4.00.950a or higher)
Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 4.01 (or higher)
etscape® Communicator Version 4.5 (or higher)
AppleShare client updates can be downloaded
from the Apple Web site:
http://www.asu.info.apple.com.
Microsoft service packs can be found on the
Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com.
Netscape Communicator can be found on the
Netscape Web site: http://www.netscape.com.
705N Compatibility
With Servers
Windows 2000 Service ack 1
Windows NT 4.0 Service ack 6 (or higher)
NetWare 5.1 S 1
NetWare 5 S 5
NetWare 4.11/2 S 8a

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Language Support
for File and Folder Names
Documents saved on a 705N may be written in any lan-
guage that the operating system supports. File and folder
name support, however, is only provided for languages
that are compatible with Code ages 437 (US English),
850 (Western Europe including: Afrikaans, Dutch, En-
glish, French, German, Italian and Spanish) and 865
[Northern Europe including: Danish, Finnish, Icelandic,
Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nyorsk) and Swedish].
Use of file and folder names in other languages not on
the above list may not be fully supported. Thus, files and
folders may be impossible to open or delete if named us-
ing unique characters in unsupported languages. Cyrillic
characters are an example of characters that are not sup-
ported for use in file or folder names.
To avoid problems with file or folder names, DELL recom-
mends that the 705N code page be set to the primary
language used on the desktops that will be using 705N.
For example, if the primary language used on the desk-
tops in your company is French, it is recommended that
the user set the 705N code page to 850.
For international markets outside of North America, the
705N user interface and documentation are available in
English, German, Spanish and French.
If you have further questions, please visit
http://www.dell.com or http://support.dell.com.

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Macintosh Issues
The following are issues that you need to be aware of
when using Apple Macintosh workstations to access your
705N.
Changing Account Passwords From the
Windows Server
The 705N does not allow Apple networking users to change
their domain user account password directly from their
Macintosh. User account changes can be made from the
Windows server acting as the domain controller.
Backing up a 705N from a Macintosh
workstation
You can backup a 705N with a Macintosh computer us-
ing Dantz Retrospect. The 705N, however, does not ap-
pear as a network client in the volume selection window
because it cannot run the Retrospect Remote agent as a
system extension. To backup the data on a 705N, you
must mount the appropriate volume(s) on the desktop of
the Macintosh client you are using for network backups.
The volume(s) may be selected in the Retrospect volume
selection dialog window.

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Microsoft Windows Issues-
Microsoft Networking
The following are issues that you need to be aware of
when using Microsoft Windows workstations to access
your 705N via Microsoft networking.
Some Windows clients report free space
inaccurately
Some Windows clients (3.x, 95, and 98) are unable to rec-
ognize free disk space in excess of two gigabytes. This
problem affects only the free space display. All cli-
ents can still use all the available disk space. Use a
Web browser to determine how much free space you have
on a drive. This information is displayed on the View
Disk Status page, under Disk Settings.
AutoCAD users report “File is in use”
error messages
AutoCAD users on a Microsoft network occasionally get
an error message indicating File is in use, open as Read-
Only, even if the file is not actually being accessed by
other users.
AutoDesk (the makers of AutoCAD), have determined that
this problem is caused by the Microsoft network client,
and is not specific to the 705N. A patch that corrects
this problem for AutoCAD is available at
http://www3.autodesk.com/adsk/support/filedoc/
0 148010--125452-0 00.html

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Microsoft Windows Issues -
Novell Networking
The following are issues that you need to be aware of
when using Microsoft Windows workstations to access
your 705N via Novell networking:
Compatibility with Novell intraNetWare
Clients
Novell intraNetWare clients may have difficulties access-
ing 705N volumes, because of an incompatibility with the
705N auto-connect feature. You can resolve this by con-
figuring external NetWare security (see below) or disable
auto-connect (To disable auto-connect, add a password
to the user account called GUEST or delete this account.)
Configuring external NetWare security
You can configure your 705N to accept Novell networking
users and groups from another NetWare server (you can
do so from the Security Guides, Use another NetWare
servers security). However, please note the following:
If a user is already known to the other NetWare server,
do not create a 705N local account with the same
name and password. This can cause confusion when
assigning access rights to volumes.
If you configure your 705N for external NetWare se-
curity, it needs a few minutes to gather the list of
users and groups from the external NetWare server.
Until then, if you try to set up access controls for a
volume, the Web based user interface will report an
error message indicating that the external users and
groups are not available. lease hit the Close button
to exit the Network Share Access page, wait a few
minutes, and then retry the operation.
If you add users and/or groups to the external

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NetWare server, these changes will not be propagated
to the 705N immediately. You may need to wait up to
15-20 minutes for your changes to appear on the
705Ns Network Share Access page. Note, however,
that this is not a problem when users try to login to
the 705N, as the users credentials are authenticated
directly by the external NetWare server.
Using Novell networking backup appli-
cations
For greater compatibility, performance, and reliability,
DELL strongly recommends that you upgrade to the lat-
est version of the NetWare backup application.
The 705N supports the following Novell networking
backup applications:
Computer Associates® ARCserve®I  (or Chey-
enne ARCserve) for NetWare
Veritas Backup Exec (or Seagate Backup Exec)
for NetWare
The 705N has not been tested with any other NetWare
backup applications that are compatible with Novells SMS
(Storage Management System) and TSA (Target Service
Agent) protocols. When using Novell networking backup
applications on a 705N, you need to be aware of the fol-
lowing issues:
Backups may fail because of the 705Ns 250-user
license. By default, the 705N is configured for 250
Novell networking users. If you licensed your backup
software (ARCserve or Backup Exec) for a smaller
number of users, the application will not allow you to
backup the 705N, as this would constitute a licens-
ing violation. You need to reduce the number of Novell
networking users to match your backup softwares
licensing restrictions. This is done with a Web
browser, from the Novell Networking Advanced Set-
tings page. For example, if you purchased a 25 user