Executive Summary:I have an Iomega Ix2-200, probably first generation, purchased and installed in 2010. After setting it up, I adapted it to my home network needs, and it has worked flawlessly since.Recently, my computer died, and I bought a new one. I restored everything from backups, and have been happy. As to the install, I recovered everything except EMC/IOMEGA’s StorCenter management application.So, I installed the StorCenter software from the original 2010 install disk. It could not discover my device, and failed to get through the initial screens. Furthermore, subsequent to the unsuccessful device discovery, my network has been extremely slow.
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Upgrading All Firmware on your Iomega IX2 or IX4 NAS Device. 26 May 2011 by Simon Seagrave 17 Comments. I’ve been running an Iomega IX4 in my home vSphere lab 24×7 for the past two years and have found it to be a nice reliable NAS device. We’ve got a problem with our Iomega EMC StorCenter ix4 NAS drive.
Any accesses to the NAS device are very slow with long hourglass waits for each access. (I am running Win7-64.)Result: my NAS performance has degraded significantly, and I still do not have a management path to my device. Details of my network:After initial installation, I had some issues accessing the NAS from some wireless laptops, so I reconfigured my router and the NAS device details so that the IX2-200 was on a fixed/reserved IP address. This did solve that problem. (That problem is in the past, and no longer relevant.)Also, of potential note, I have 2 routers – a Verizon router, from my ISP provider, which connects to my “real” home network router (Netgear WNDR 3700). This Netgear router has an IP address of 10.0.0.01.
My computer is a dynamic IP address, (right now it is 10.0.0.14). The IOMEGA IX2-200 is a fixed reserved IP address of 10.0.0.9. The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. DHCP address start at 10.0.0.2.The IP of the Verizon router is 192.168.1.1. The Netgear router is shown as 192.168.1.2.
Wild guess:I wonder if the fixed IP address is the culprit, and my install of the StorCenter software has somehow mucked up the settings inside the IX2-200, thus resulting in the now-awful performance. Of course, I can delete the reserved IP address for the NAS device in my Netgear router, but I am worried of making a bad situation even worse.I apologize for the verbosity; I am hoping to give as much information as necessary to help. I am expecting the answer might be quite simple, and I am thankful, in advance, of any assistance or suggestions.Larry.
The only NAS experience I’ve had so far has been with a Linksys NAS, providing nothing more than SMB protocol fileshares. The SMB fileshare protocol makes the Linksys sufficient enough for file sharing in a home network but definately not a NAS device suitable for a Virtualization environment.Obviously I needed more Storage protocol options, like NFS and iSCSI to run some real simulations. And even though I’ve read about different Virtual Storage solutions, like the Celerra VSA, I still wanted to buy new NAS hardware. Hence I decided to buy the Iomega x2-200d StorCenter, which provides iSCSI and NFS protocols as well as the (traditional) CIFS. And along with a fair price and official XenServer and VMware certified status it makes up for a great homelab NAS.Eager to try out the many options, I started to play with the StorCenter, without setting up my entire network first (no VLANs configured so far). First up was a try-out of the NFS and iSCSI options the StorCenter has to offer.Setting up NFS Shares on the Iomega StorCenter.In order to configure a NFS share on the StorCenter you first have to activate the NFS options for the Iomega StorCenter: ScreensActions.
Esther has been working in different roles and functions as an IT consultant ever since she finished her Masters degree in Computer Science in 1997. She has worked as a web developer, database administrator, and server administrator until she discovered how Server-Based Computing ( SBC ) combined servers, desktops, and user experience in one solution.