SC5000 Series (Compellent) Reference Articles
Summary: A guide to the SC5020 Dell EMC Storage unit. There are sections on General Overview, Getting Started, Troubleshooting and SCOS information. The SC5020 provides more capacity and greater flexibility as you manage a variety of workloads. Realize rack space savings with a 3U with expansion enclosures. ...
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Support Library - SC5020 Series (Compellent)
Cause
Product Overview:
The new 3U "all-in-one" chassis includes 30 drive bays plus dual hot-swappable controllers, providing up to 460TB raw capacity in a single compact unit. A variety of expansion enclosures lets you scale over 2PB per array - with even larger scale-out potential in federated multi-array systems.But the advantages do not stop with fast hardware. SC5020 includes all the Storage Center Operating System (SCOS) features that you've come to expect from SC Series storage.
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General overview:
- SC5020 and SC5020F Storage System Owner's Manual
- Dell Storage SC5020 Manuals and Documents
- Dell EMC Switch Configuration Guide for Dell EMC Unity, SC Series (Compellent) , PS Series (EqualLogic) for iSCSI SANs
- Dell SC Series (Compellent) Best Practices with VMWare vSphere 5.x to 7.x
- Citrix XenServer with Dell SC Series Storage Configuration and Deployment
Getting Started:
- SC Storage Customer Notification: How to apply Host Server Best Practice settings using the Dell Storage Manager Client
- Preparing VMWare ESXi Hosts to attached to SCv20x0, SCv30x0, SC4020, SC5020 SAS Arrays
- Dell EMC SC Series Storage and Microsoft Multipath I/O
- Dell EMC SC Series and Active Directory Integration
- Dell SC Series Storage with SAS Front-end Support for VMWare vSphere
- Citrix XenServer with Dell SC Series Storage configuration and Deployment
- Deploying SharePoint 2016 utilizing Dell Storage SC Series Arrays
- SC Series VASA (VMware® vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness) Provider
Troubleshooting:
- Drivers and Downloads
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Dell Storage Manager server setup fails with Error Turning on MPIO
- SC Storage Customer Notification: SCv3000, SC5020 and SC7020 systems do not retain iDRAC Email Alert Information
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Deduplication Operation can result in unexpected system behavior
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Troubleshooting DSM "Error setting up connection" Message During Initial Deployment
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Adjusting Storage Profiles may result in errors while utilizing SCOS 7.1.20, 7.2.11, or 7.2.30 with Deduplication and / or Compression
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Deduplication Operation can result in unexpected system behavior
- SC Storage Customer Notification: Consistency snapshots fail when volume(s) in Recycle Bin
System Software:
Storage Enclosures:
- For information about Dell EMC SC Series Expansion Enclosures Click here
- Dell SC400, SC420, and SC420F Expansion Enclosure Owner's Manual
- Dell Storage SC460 Owners Manual and Support page
Affected Products
Dell Storage SC400, Dell Storage SC420, Dell Storage SC420F, Dell Storage SC460, Dell Storage SC5020Article Properties
Article Number: 000178224
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 07 Dec 2023
Version: 8
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