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Hi, Just purchased a new SC4020. Didn't come with any docs but I eventually found a deployment guide online.  I've completed the prejoin information via a serial connection and both controllers have booted successfully.  Logged into the gui, set the admin password and loaded the license

Can you edit a volume type after a volume is created or do you have to do it during the creation process? I select advance when creating the volume and am not seeing it.

Hi We have an Power edge R910 (1X7c322) that we want to by some extra hard drive for it, but I am not sure whitch drive we should buy, could you tell me which drive can we buy that would work we would like to keep de drives the same. the server manager shows this info:

Hi, I am planning to deploy Dell SC8000 with cisco UCS infra. the list of equipment is below: 1: Cisco Nexus 5548UP universal license 2: Dell SC8000 SAN (4x FC and 4x FCoE ports) 3: 2x Cisco Fabric Interconnects 4: Cisco UCS blade chassis Please recommend where should i connect Compellent

Hi Guys, So I have selected this for some backup RDMs, my question is why have the replays frozen on that volume? Also what does Allow replays to coalesce into active replay do? The replay expired on the 21st of october? what is the best way to proceed exactly. If I unexpire it it says the

Does anyone know where the dell enterprise manger software can be downloaded from?

Hi I have a SC4020 system with only a single tier of storage. How does this affect data progression? Can I make data progress to different raid levels instead of different tiers?

Hi there, In the white paper: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/12/shared-content~data-sheets~en/documents~dell-compellent-tiered-storage.pdf It states you can do an on demand data progression migration? "Migration occurs automatically at a set time defined by the user, or on demand, while the

Curious if anyone has noticed an increase level of cooling fan noise after upgrading their SC8000's to 6.5.30? Upgraded over the weekend and the controllers would usually increase the fan speeds during boot, then settle back down. After the upgrade, ours haven't seems to settle back to their p

So I have created a volume from a reply, mapped it into vsphere and its showing up fine as a new datastore, all is good! But my query is, the original replay that I have used to create a datastore, is set to expire in 2 days? What will happen to the new volume I have mapped as a result of this expi

I am running Dell Enterprise Manager 2015 R1 (Build 15.1.2.45) client on a Windows 10 Pro VM on a MacBook Pro 15in Retina display with poor results. Does anyone know of a way to adjust the size of fonts, UI elements, etc. within Enterprise Manager?  The Windows DPI settings don't appear to aff

This datastore shows 231GB free in vCenter and 760GB free in Compellent (see attached) How can it show more free in Compellent than in vCenter? Since Compellent does everything by Thin Provisioning?  I get the feeling I am missing something hahaha I mentioned it to Compellent support too, t

Hi guys, I want to move some volumes across to the other controller to redistribute some space, as everything on controller 2 is looking full. What is the best way to move them across, so the data is on the controller 1 disks? Controller 1:

I was told by Compellent support that if a replication link is broken, or if the SAN is re-IPed, replication must be setup again from scratch. Is that the case?  If so there's no point is trying to presync a SAN before sending it to the DR site.  It's almost hard to believe the system re-

FS8600 - Can we create a second NAS pool?.

I get emails from the Compellent controllers saying connectivity is lost. Do I just need to check the "Do not show alerts when connectivity to this server is lost" box before powering the server off to stop these emails for that time? Cheers, Bilal

Could someone explain the procedure to apply custom storage profile to a Volume in compellent?.

Hello world, I'm a system admin at a higher education organization and we are having issues when trying to scan to folder in our new storage Compellent FS8600. We are using an MFP ( Konica minolta, Xerox, and Canon) to scan to folder. We have moved from the Windows file share system to this Storage

Hi guys, I am very new to the Compellent way of doing things and I have been tasked with upgrading the current setup to 6.5 "Upgrade Dell Compellent Storage Center OS from version 6.4.5 to 6.5.20." In the webclient I have checked for updates and it says there are none? (see attached screensho

I apologize for I had a similar question but I posted it about NX3230 in PowerVault section and it was a mistake. It should not be NX3230 but SCv2000. What I should asked is about the processor of SCv2000. I download a spec sheet about SCv2000 series and it said its processor is 4-core Xeon. Now I