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HowTo Upgrade OpenMediaVault

Here are some quick and simple steps to upgrade your OpenMediaVault (OMV) to the latest version; OMV 1.0  (Kralizec). SSH into your OpenMediaVault server; in my case I am running OMV 0.5 and run the following command: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && omv-update Then type the following command: omv-release-upgrade Once completed you can either […]

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Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array

Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array I hope you never encounter such an issue, but if you found yourself searching for a method to get online you’re in luck. Symptoms: Equallogic Storage Array  no longer responds to pings iSCSI attached volumes have all gone offline Unable to access the Equallogic Storage Array using SAN HQ […]

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Dell Equallogic PS Series – Undocumented Commands

Disclaimer: The following set of commands are used by Internal staff at Dell EqualLogic. These commands are for use only by EqualLogic Technical Support personnel. Do not use a support command without instruction from Technical Support Now for the fun commands you’ve been looking for: Launch Support Mode support exec bash To enter a BASH shell […]

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Openfiler – case of the missing storage

Today I was doing some cleanup on one of my Openfiler SAN Servers, in an attempt to recover unused disk space when I encounter an odd issue of the storage not being reclaimed. After waiting sometime I decided to investigate this problem. Opening putty, I SSH’ed into the server and was able to see that […]