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Hello everyone, there is a storage system Dell Compellent SC4020. At the moment, 6 slots remain unfilled, the remaining slots are filled with HDD. What is the correct strategy for filling it with SSD disks? How much minimum and maximum can I bet in slots. Is it possible, for example, to put 4 +1 in

I am very new to san management. I am concerned with my storage environment. I have what appears to be ~194TB of available storage in the form of 24 7.28TB hdds and 15 1.75TB ssds. Only ~74TB is being used by what I imagine are the volumes and snapshots leaving ~119TB unused. If I go into storage ty

I have Dell Storage SC 7020 and I want turn on SMTP Server. When I test server everything is fine, but mail dont work. I have issue "503 This mail server requires authentication when attempting to send to a non-local e-mail address", but I dont have any authentication option. Are there any other o

We have a SC4020. According the picture the configured space is at 93 TB of an available space of 164 TB. Even if my storage types seemed to be quite full, in my point of view, there would be still plenty of space. Please, how do we increase the size of our existing storage types by the existing

Hello, I got Dell Storage SCv2020 with one SC100 expansion with 24 drives. One of the drives failed and I needed to replace it. All the drives in the SC100 are 1.2TB Dell Enterprise plus SAS 12Gbps, 10K RPM. I am trying to replace this failed drive with another Dell SAS drive but this is

Hey all! We've got an old Dell Compellent Series 40 that's still providing SAN functionality for us, and it's been good. I think we'd like to move up to a more modern storage solution in some amount of time, but we're considering the financial position of our company and we might be sticking with t

Hi, I have two Dell R630 servers attached to a SCv 2020 storage array. The servers each have a single 12Gbps SAS HBA external with two ports. The storage has dual, four port controllers. Server 1 HBA is connected to port 1 on each controller.  Server 2 is connected to port 2 on each control

Hi, i have some questions for the SC4020. I bought a SC4020 without the controllers. - does the SC4020 works also with one Controller or do i need two to get started ? - from where do i get a license when i buy a used Controller ? and is it expensive ? this is for private use and for test purpo

Dear, We have SCv3020 and there are 10 more volumes. The whole storage stucked and emergency mode when only one of the Volumes was full. Could u please explain this.        

Hello everyone, I have Dell CT-SC9000 with a daily schedule snapshot. Today I need to copy a VM (has problems) from a snapshot 3 days ago. But I see my free space as less than 1%, so in this case, can I create volume from snapshot and map to server for backup only? May I expire some snapshots to r

hello, if i reimage sc7020 im going to lost the licences? thks

I feel really dumb asking this, but I'm expanding space out for the first time and don't want to mess things up - I've heard shrinking volumes can be messy, so I want to get this right the first go around. I've attached a screenshot, but in case it doesn't show, we've got 71 TB of configured spac

Hello, What is the minimum SCOS version/controller firmware version required for Vsphere 7 in a Fibre Channel environment?

Hello i have buy a hard drive with the same description that my actual hard drive. however does not work, what do i have check on hard drive? thank you very much Stock SCV2020Buy with a Seller

Our SCv2020 has 12 x 600GB 12G 15K SAS installed at the moment. Can I add 6 x 1TB 6G 15K SAS and 6 x 900GB 6G 15K SAS in those available slots? Would 6G makes any difference in terms of performance? Like performance hit? Because the existing 12 disks are 12G.  Can 12G and 6G can be installe

Trying to add a newly built host to the storage manager but it is throwing an error saying  "MappingServer" has reached the maximum object count of 500. In Storage Manager, numbers look OK and servers do match those in Virtual Server Manager.. If I go to the 'Dell EMC Unisphere Central', un

I have a SCv3020 with six 450GB SSD and sixteen 1TB 10k drives. When I create a Storage Type, I set the Tier 1 SSD's and Tier 3 10k drives both to Dual Redundancy. After doing so, I receive an alert: Storage type Assigned - Redundant - 2 MB tier High has insufficient disks to support parity raid. T

Hello. i have an issue with a controller in dell scv2020. i tried to replace the faulty controller but when replacing it with another controller  the new controller is not recognized.   any ideas?  

Hey all - We have a pretty old Compellent system (SC40), I was wondering if there was any way to set up an NFS share directly from it?

Is there a way to delete removed / missing drives? Unit is out of warranty.  I am trying to set it up in my lab... not production.  I have most of the original drives and it can boot fully.  My issue is that it originally had an SSD tier (I don't have any of the SSD drives).  W