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Friday 21 November 2014

DELL PowerVault MD3600i

We recently received this DELL Power Vault iSCSI Storage box for testing purpose. I captured the screenshots when I was playing with it and configuring the LUN. 

Note: This is not a production box and I have just created this post for reference purpose.


"The Dell PowerVault™ MD3600i array is a next-generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI SAN solution that is ideal for entry-level storage consolidation in virtualized environments that require high availability and high performance without sacrificing ease of use. Designed for flexibility, the MD3600i arrays support a range of drive types, enclosures and RAID levels all within a single array"

Below is the specification sheet for this 


So lets begin to explore certain features and options for this storage. The software installation is pretty much straight forward. I writing this post software installation. So once you have installed the software you can start the Disk Storage Manager.

  1. Initial Setup
  2. Host Group Creation
  3. LUN Creation
Initial Setup

1. This is what you see when you login to the console. There are certain Start-up tasks you can perform.