Running Diagnostics On Powervault Nx3500; Online Diagnostics - Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual

LogicalVirtual Disk. In the properties pane, view the Virtual Disk
world-wide identifier.
CAUTION:
Before proceeding to add the LUNs, ensure that an even number of
unformatted LUNs is displayed and that the number combined with the formatted
LUNs does not exceed 16.
3 Click Add LUNs to add the new LUNs to the PowerVault NX3500 system.
The system performs an incremental file system format on the new LUNs.
This process will take some time depending on the size and the number of
the LUNs.
When complete, the new space is available for use.

Running Diagnostics on PowerVault NX3500

The diagnostics options available on your solution are:
•

Online Diagnostics

• Offline Diagnostics
Online Diagnostics
Online diagnostics can be run while the system is still online and serving data.
There are five diagnostic options available:
• PerformanceDiagnostic
• NetworkDiagnostic
• ProtocolsDiagnostic
• FileSystemDiagnostic
• GeneralSystemDiagnostic
To run any of these options:
1 Using an SSH client, log on to the PowerVault NX3500 CLI (using the
NAS Management VIP) as admin.
2 From the CLI run the diagnostic command
diag start <one of the five options>
For example, diag start PerformanceDiagnostic
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