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Hi, I have worked with Equallogic too many years ago, but not in Compellent!! If we take snapshot of a volume, then will the space cut down from it's volume ? then, the many times I take separate snapshot the more space will it cut from it's volume ? Thanks in advance.. Jamshed

Hi, We are using SC4020 as a iSCSI storage for our Virtual Environment with vSphere 6 for a while but now we are seeing issue of "Lost access to Volume..." throughout environment which brought me to question on VAAI and SC4202 compatibility with ESXi 6 Do Dell/Compellent recommended to have VAAI

Compellent CT-SC030 5.6.3 Replaced a failed ST3500320NS revision XR1A with identical model ST3500320NS revision SN06 bought from a 3rd party. New drive shows up in unassigned pool but the Compellent will not accept this drive into the 7k assigned pool as a spare and only gives  option to clas

Hello Guys, We are going to provision a storage from Dell compellent SC 4020 for 48TB to a new environment, we end up in a confusion to decide with the size of LUN. Please suggest. Option1 : 24 * 2 TB =48 TB   Option 2: 8 * 6 TB =48TB Model : SC 4020 Host details : Microsoft Hyper –v

Hi all, I'm writing a Powershell-Script to manage a Compellent environment. I have an error, which is new for me: I can't connect to EM because SSL/TLS-connection is not possible. I did some "Google"-search and found, that Microsoft is changing some things in SSL/TLS.The related MS-Patch is insta

Hi! I have Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager application on the management station. In Event Log I quickly see next error message. Source: StorageArray ID: 3 sfh-storage1; ;Critical;The persistent monitor running on Host srv-sc can now reach the indicated Storage Array. sfh-storage is name of

can some one help me in configuring my new Dell sc4020 . 1) what will be the default ipaddress for the management port 2) what is the management tool to manage this sc4020 storage

Hi Guys, We have a SCv2080 we are just doing the initial config for now. All is well except we were doing some testing and released some disks, this moved it to the unassigned folder. We now can't seem to add these unassigned disks back to the disk folder / pool. Latest firmware etc I can't s

Hi, we are considering a SC4020 all flash array. We got a quote with 6x 1.6TB WI and 12x 3.8TB RI TLC. They told us, that the tier 1 should be sized to hold about 12 days of writing data. What I understand in the white paper "Flash-optimized Data Progression" is, that beginning with SC OS 6.4 the

I am trying to automate DR by creating views of replica replays to mount to hosts. I need to enumerate the replays before I can mount them, but when I try to enumerate replays on replica volumes, nothing is returned. For example: Get-SCReplay -SourceSCVolume $myVolume -Connection $myConnection Wh

Hi there guys, I had a sales guy tell me: Capacities based on 30% R10 / 80% R5-9. obviously you cant have 30/80 so I am assuming him meant 30/70 which seems to the the average I am having trouble understanding how the usable figure below came about? 1.9TB MRI SSD 24 Disk (23 usable) 93,794 IO

Random Question, When Tier 1 fills up, does Compellent write to Tier 2 directly? or will it first move data out of Tier 1 and into Tier 2 and then commit the write to Tier 1? Cheers

We are adding a new SC220 enclosure (10K 600GB disks) to an existing SC8000 system. The new disks appear in Unassigned folder. However, when trying to assign "unrecognized disks were selected" and classification is shown and "Unknown". Is it due to old version of SCOS not recognizing new disks' fir

So Guys, We have added a new enclosure to our sc8000 and it has 4tb 7k disks. We have created a separate folder (called secondary) and they are in a different pool, so dont take part in the normal data progression. The thing I am concerned with is they are classed as T1 disks? I want to lever

We're getting ready for a new install. Where on the Compellent page can I download the latest version of Enterprise Manager?

FS8600 How do you turn on FTP in enterprise manager 15.3.1.300? manual says to go to NAS - file system, maintenance tab and turn it on. But there is no maintenance tab?

I am trying to join our Storage Center to our domain. I have the configuration correct and when I run "Test Servers" it completes successfully.  I then attempt to join with a domain admin username/pass, but it continues to fail with: Summary: Join domain failed for host: Cause: Join domain

Hi All, Just recently setup a new SC4020 compellent and R730xd server. This will be part of a bigger network but at the moment I'm testing failover and redundancy and just trying to get my head around Virtual Ports and MP. Current test environment comprises of a Compellent SAN, 2 Fibre Switches, E

Hi All, I encountered a problem when checking my compellent summary report. May I seek for your help on how to understanding each setting below?? Assigned: 6TB to one servers What I got the report like this for one Volume: I'm getting confuse on the Total Disk Space, Actual space and Active

Hi guys, I'm installing a new storage Dell Compellent SCv2020 with vSphere 5.5 U3b for an existing customer I have deep knowledge of Dell PowerVault storages but I'm new with Dell Compellent. I've read that making snapshots for backups or running Storage vMotion can affect free space on the storage