Category: Dell PowerStore

More Details: Unable to load system configuration data. Contact your service provider for assistance: Service unavailable. Please retry in a few minutes. So trying again after a few minutes (or even a week) didn’t work. However, this error message appeared immediately after the initial deployment of a “Unified” PowerStore, as soon as you try to login. After a little research and Feedback by my appreciated […]

Last week I had the challenge of upgrading a Dark Site PowerStore from 3.2.1.0 to 3.6.0.0. PowerStore 3.6 brings a lot of new features, for me there are the following highlights: Starting with the Upgrade BIN file, you will first need to login into your Dell Support account, whereupon you will need to enter the service tag of the PowerStore system. Then filter by operating […]

During a PowerStore Appliance upgrade, one of the most common warnings during a pre-upgrade health check (PUHC) is the message: CPU utilization level too high. Reduce system load prior to NDU: This is a 2-node PowerStore cluster which is to be upgraded from 3.2.x to 3.6.x. The existing checks used to find CPU usage include management and platform CPU cores. As a result, on an idle […]