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On a Controller Failover, the Following Erroneous Message Might Appear On the Console or Group Manager

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Discrepancy In Replica Count After Performing Promote and Failback to Primary While performing a PS to SC replication, during the DR activation (failover) and failback, Group Manager displays the replica count incorrectly. This replica count issue does not impact the replication process. Replica Count Is Incorrect After the Partner (Storage Center) Is Powered On Creating a replica for a volume while the partner (a Storage Center that already contains replicas) is down results in an incorrect replica count in Group Manager when the partner is brought back up. Dell Storage Manager shows the correct replica count. Hardware Replacing an 8-TB Drive With a 4-TB Drive Is Not Supported. On a PS6610 member, you can upgrade a disk from 4 TB to 8 TB, but downgrading an 8 TB disk to 4 TB is not supported. When PS4210 or PS6210 Arrays Are Halted, the ERR LEDs for Both Controllers Are On When a PS4210 or PS6210 array is halted using the halt command, the controllers and battery backup units (BBU) go into ship mode, but the ERR LEDs on both control modules remain ON (red light). On a Controller Failover, the Following Erroneous Message Might Appear On the Console or Group Manager During a controller failover, fan failure messages similar to the following might be falsely reported on the console or Group Manager: Multiple fans are operating outside of acceptable speed ranges. This condition occurs rarely, and when it does, the fans go to a higher speed and then come back to the normal speed in approximately 10 to 15 seconds. Networking Member Cannot Detect IPV6 Group Address Automatically If the Group Name Is Numeric If you create a group with a numeric name, you must also provide the IPv6 well-known address (WKA) to join the group. Use TLS with OpenLDAP Port 389 Use TLS with OpenLDAP with the default port of 389 and not with port number 636 as mentioned on the OpenLDAP faq webpage. Replication Confusing Error On Replication Test Partnership Page While using replication, on the test partnership page if you test an IPv4 partner on a group configured for IPv6, the following error is displayed: Internal Error, could not complete tests. The intended error should be: Unable to communicate because both sides of the replication partnership must use the same IP version. User Interface Launching Group Manager as an Application Generates Exception If you launch Group Manager as an application, when you click Run, the following error might display: Error. Click here for details. When you click for details, the error Illegal Argument Exception is displayed. This error can be ignored, because Group Manager will still successfully launch as an application. Click Ignore to continue. Group Manager GUI and CLI Provide Different Options When Creating Thin Clones When you create a thin clone, the default for the Group Manager CLI is different from the default for the GUI. The CLI puts the clone of the template into the same folder as the template. The GUI defaults to not putting the clone into any folder, but allows you to check a box and select a folder. Java Warning When Starting Group Manager on macOS When you start Group Manager in a macOS environment running Java version 7, update 51, a warning message is displayed. The message states that a future Java version might block this operation because the JAR file does not contain a permissions attribute. Rear View Power Supply Status Reported Incorrectly Group Manager does not show the latest information on rearview power supply status. If you switch to the front view, and then back to the rear view, the correct status will display. GUI Logout Event Does Not Ooccur in MacOS Environments With Safari Browser Only When using a macOS with the Safari browser only, the GUI logout event is not generated when the logout operation is performed. Using the GUI With Tabbed Web Browsers Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Arrays Firmware Version 9.1.9 Release Notes 11

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Discrepancy In Replica Count After Performing Promote and Failback to Primary
While performing a PS to SC replication, during the DR activation (failover) and failback, Group Manager displays the replica count
incorrectly. This replica count issue does not impact the replication process.
Replica Count Is Incorrect After the Partner (Storage Center) Is Powered On
Creating a replica for a volume while the partner (a Storage Center that already contains replicas) is down results in an incorrect replica
count in Group Manager when the partner is brought back up. Dell Storage Manager shows the correct replica count.
Hardware
Replacing an 8-TB Drive With a 4-TB Drive Is Not Supported
.
On a PS6610 member, you can upgrade a disk from 4 TB to 8 TB, but downgrading an 8 TB disk to 4 TB is not supported.
When PS4210 or PS6210 Arrays Are Halted, the ERR LEDs for Both Controllers Are On
When a PS4210 or PS6210 array is halted using the halt command, the controllers and battery backup units (BBU) go into ship mode, but
the ERR LEDs on both control modules remain ON (red light).
On a Controller Failover, the Following Erroneous Message Might Appear On the Console or Group Manager
During a controller failover, fan failure messages similar to the following might be falsely reported on the console or Group Manager:
Multiple fans are operating outside of acceptable speed ranges. This condition occurs rarely, and when it does, the fans go to a higher
speed and then come back to the normal speed in approximately 10 to 15 seconds.
Networking
Member Cannot Detect IPV6 Group Address Automatically If the Group Name Is Numeric
If you create a group with a numeric name, you must also provide the IPv6 well-known address (WKA) to join the group.
Use TLS with OpenLDAP Port 389
Use TLS with OpenLDAP with the default port of 389 and not with port number 636 as mentioned on the
OpenLDAP faq
webpage.
Replication
Confusing Error On Replication Test Partnership Page
While using replication, on the test partnership page if you test an IPv4 partner on a group configured for IPv6, the following error is
displayed:
Internal Error, could not complete tests
. The intended error should be:
Unable to communicate
because both sides of the replication partnership must use the same IP version
.
User Interface
Launching Group Manager as an Application Generates Exception
If you launch Group Manager as an application, when you click Run, the following error might display:
Error. Click here for
details
. When you click for details, the error
Illegal Argument Exception
is displayed. This error can be ignored, because
Group Manager will still successfully launch as an application. Click Ignore to continue.
Group Manager GUI and CLI Provide Different Options When Creating Thin Clones
When you create a thin clone, the default for the Group Manager CLI is different from the default for the GUI. The CLI puts the clone of
the template into the same folder as the template. The GUI defaults to not putting the clone into any folder, but allows you to check a box
and select a folder.
Java Warning When Starting Group Manager on macOS
When you start Group Manager in a macOS environment running Java version 7, update 51, a warning message is displayed. The message
states that a future Java version might block this operation because the JAR file does not contain a permissions attribute.
Rear View Power Supply Status Reported Incorrectly
Group Manager does not show the latest information on rearview power supply status. If you switch to the front view, and then back to
the rear view, the correct status will display.
GUI Logout Event Does Not Ooccur in MacOS Environments With Safari Browser Only
When using a macOS with the Safari browser only, the GUI logout event is not generated when the logout operation is performed.
Using the GUI With Tabbed Web Browsers
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