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September 29th, 2019 23:00
SC040 Setup
Hello Compellent Community,
We stumbled upon an old Compellent Series 40 in our inventory that was last used in 2011 and we're trying to decide if it can still be used for anything. When booting one of the controllers connected to a KVM display it gets past the BIOS and next we get a series of ................ We have two controllers and they both display the same thing. My understanding is we should see a login screen instead? Do they need to be re-imaged/reset?
Thank you for your time,
jbraxton7
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DELL-Sam L
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September 30th, 2019 15:00
Hello jbraxton7,
With a system that is that old you will need to use enterprise manager to be able to login to the system. do you happen to know the current SCOS level that is on your SC40?
Please let us know if you have any other questions.
jbraxton7
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September 30th, 2019 22:00
Sorry we have not been able to determine the SCOS version yet. Today we tried connecting the two controllers by ethernet via the two NIC #2 ports to see if they would load past the screen of dots without success. Will we be able to use enterprise manager without knowing what the past admin set the login details as on the two controllers?
DMONTAGNA
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October 8th, 2019 11:00
Maybe the demo below can help you to reset your SC040.. the process is the same used for SC8000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PDPj70K-Y
After reset you will need to set the Management IP Address and other stuffs through CLI, and finish the intial setup using a browser conecting to the primary MGMT IP address, after that you need an Enterprise Manager compatible with the SCOS installed on your SC040 (Probably SCOS 5.5 in 2011) in order to manage and deploy the volumes again.
Here is the deployment guide from SCOS 5.5: https://manualzz.com/doc/3104002/dell-compellent-series-40-setup-guide
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Arkangel Michael
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January 13th, 2022 04:00
They run BSD, and won't load unless they can ascertain license status. They are meant to be plugged into a switch. The controller won't actually change a patch cable to a crossover cable for you.
They have some pretty interesting drivers for the raid controller card. It is a beauty. It has a 3.3 Ghz Wolfdale on a 15 watt heatsink, with a network controller that is too old for china to hack, lol (no firmware updates). It can take a spartan xilinx FPGA, with 256 MB Flash / DDR2 RAM for onboard cache, and a 12.5 Farad Ultracapacitor instead of a battery.
If you still have the OS Flash for the server I am interested in it. Thanks!