Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i
MD3000i Support Matrix View Download (PDF, 322 KB)
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000/MD3000i RAID Controller Password Reset View Download (PDF, 190 KB)
Upgrading Your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i From Simplex to Duplex Mode View Download (PDF, 1.15 MB)
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000/MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices  View Download (PDF, 339 KB)
Rack Installation Guide View Download (PDF, 1.17 MB)
Replacing a RAID Controller Module in a Single-Controller MD3000i View Download (PDF, 156 KB)

Version-Specific Documents

Determining Your Firmware Version

To determine if your software is first generation or second generation, perform the following steps:

  1. Connect to the system using the Dell PowerVault MD Storage Manager.
  2. Select the Support tab.
  3. Click Storage Array Profile.
  4. Note the firmware version:

Documentation For First Generation

Documentation For Second Generation

Related Product Information

Dell PowerVault™ Compatibility Matrix
Dell PowerEdge™ Servers
Dell PowerVault Storage
Operating Systems
Rack Systems

Click View to access the document.

OR

Click Download to save the document to your hard drive.

  1. Click Download.
     
  2. In the File Download window, click Save.
     
  3. In the Save As window, click the Save in drop-down arrow and select a directory on your computer C: drive.
     
  4. Click Save.
     
  5. In the Download Complete window, click Close.

To unzip your downloaded file:

  1. Navigate to the directory location on your C: drive that you specified when you saved the file.
     
  2. Double-click the .zip file that you downloaded.
     
  3. In the .zip file window, click Extract and select the directory to which you downloaded the file.
     
  4. Click Extract and close the .zip file window.

Viewing HTML Documents

To view a downloaded HTML document, start your browser and click the index.htm file.

Viewing PDF Documents With the Microsoft® Windows® Operating System

PDF files require Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® 5.0 or later, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website at www.adobe.com.

Viewing PDF Documents With Linux

Dell recommends that you use the xpdf file viewer for the X Windows System. You can download xpdf from the following website: www.foolabs.com/xpdf.

For information on using xpdf, open a command prompt, type man xpdf, and press <Enter>.

To open a document in the X Windows System:

  1. Open a command prompt.

  2. Type startx and press <Enter>.

  3. At the command prompt, type the following and press <Enter>:

    xpdf <file_name>

    where <file_name> is the document name.

    For example:

    xpdf lnx7132.pdf

  4. Use the right- and left-arrow buttons to navigate in the xpdf screen. 

    A single-arrow button moves the document one page in the indicated direction. 

    A double-arrow moves the document 10 pages in the indicated direction.

Last Updated: 11 November 2009