If you have already added the drives, use the Dell MD Storage Manager (MD3000/32xx/36xx compatible download link here: ftp.dell.com/.../DELL_MDSS_Consolidated_RDVD_4_1_2_29.iso ) and do an automatic discovery. If the software finds your array great, if not you will need to find out the management ip addresses. If its not written anywhere, you can retrieve this with the serial cable. Hopefully the new drives show up as compatible. The new drives will have to have a dell PPID on them however not all Dell drives will have the logo. Here is an example of a seagate drive with no dell logo but has a ppid.  dellfirmware.seagate.com/.../drive_sn_ppid.gif Once in the software and with working drives, go to the configuration tab and create a new disk group with the disks, also a new virtual disk on the new raid group. Set up your iscsi sessions from the new server to the MD3000i, then go back to the storage manager software and in the configuration tab create a host to virtual disk mapping to point your new drive at your new server.  Rescan the storage adapters on your server and see if the disks show up.  If your server is windows or linux you will need to run the software cd on the server and install the host portion so that multipathing works correctly.  If in esx you will not need to do this.   If you happen to be using ESX here is a good setup guide. en.community.dell.com/.../3043.aspx For all other documents use this link www.dell.com/.../powervault-md3000i
Hi,  We have an MD3000i that is almost for 3 years working, the device at its current configuration connected to one server (with UTP cable ISCSI), we did add 6 more drive (differnt size dan the oraginal drives), and now we want to create a new arrary with these new drives and connect them to a different server. I heard this is possible, could some one tell me if we can change the current configuration from one server to 2 servers without an downtime? and also I  appreciat if you could point me to any manuall on how to doing this.   Thanks
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