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Hello Everyone, Every physical port will be assigned a virtual port when it comes to Virtual Port mode in Sc Series. Do we need to add the virtual port manually or does it get assigned automatically ? The virtual port is being added for port no 1 for both the Controllers but not for other ports in t

Hi All, I have two servers connected to the SCv2020 with 10G Ethernet adapters on the servers side and iSCSI HBAs on the SCv2020 side. Below are the screenshot of how Fault Domains are configured. From GLR630HOST01 I can ping 192.168.11.121 and 192.168.12.121. From GLR630HOST02 I can ping

My dell compellent is not up and the ports are down..what could be the cause of failure? or any hardware issue? pls. help me with this thank you.

Hi guys, I'm trying to re-setup Dell SCv2020 from the scratch. I'm trying to release the last disk and delete the disks folder but can't see Release Disk option in the context menu for that last disk. Just wondering if it should be like this. Thanks.

Hi guys, On SCv2020 I have nothing connected to SAS ports and have no intention to plug in an additional enclosure. Should I ignore these kind of warnings? Thank you.

Hello, We have an older SC 40 providing 40TB of iSCSI storage to 8 physical servers in a Dell Blade Chassis (M1000e).  When all four iSCSI targets are connected everything appears normal.  But, we can write to a Compellent volume from a local server disk at 10-20MBps (Boo!).  If we d

Greetings to Everyone! Does anyone know about SCOS log collecting parameters and how to tweak them? System consists of SC4020 storage and DSM 2016R3 as virtual appliance. Effect observed: both DSM and Storage logs containing 500 records, which cover about 3 days of operation. As the 'Week',

Hi guys, we have a storage array Dell Compellent SCv2020 with vSphere 6.5 (build 7388607) in a customer premises. we recently had an issue that the storage entered to Emergency Mode. from the DSM console, we can see 99% space is consumed from the array although we have migrated some VMs to differe

Is the FS8600 vulnerable to Samba Security Updates CVE-2019-3870 and CVE-2019-3880 & what's the latest firmware available for the FS8600? Thanks!Eric  

Hi, I read about it and talked to some friends from Dell. However, I want to confirm that my understanding is correct. When I have a SC with disks of different sizes and different speeds, the correct one is following the following configuration: Tier 1 for SSD disksTier 2 for 15K disksTier 3 for

Is it possible to remove a 300GB SATA disk from a compellent (e.g. SC4020) and pin it into another compellent (e.g. SC4020)? And if, so are there particular steps to follow?

Attempting to script a remote shutdown of an SCv3020 running 7.3+. I believe I need Dell EMC Storage Manager Data Collector running, load the Powershell module, and initiate the command. I checked Powershell SDK cookbook and see no mention of shutdown command. I see this: https://www.dell.com/com

Sorry for the disturbance, but does anyone know the list of HDD/SSD events, which will cause the front panel LEDs indicating them?  On a particular SC4020 system I found: - The failure of single HDD in hotspare pool changed nothing in drive cage indicators state (both LEDs remained

I can not connect to the dell storage client anymore after purging the logs from the compsadb database. The error displayed is: "error setting up connection". I do not know if purging the database is the cause.

Hi, - We are using SC4020. - We've run out of SSD tier, so we've changed the profile of volume which size is 10-TB from "Recommend" to our custom. Our custom profile use RAID-6 on both tier SSD and HDD.- The problem is the storage does not shrink the RAID-10-DM allocated space, so all our data i

Has anyone else seen this. When doing the initial configuration with the Dell storage management client, on the Discover and configure iSCSI fault tolerance domains I enter the ip address details and complete the configuration however it gives me the following error and doesn't allow me to continue

Hello, I currently have an SCv2020 with an asynchronous configuration with another SCv2020. In these SCv2020 there are LUNs with virtual server data hosted on Hyperv 2012 R2. I want to use the data from SCv2020 (Replica) that is receiving replication to import the virtual machines into on the new

Hi guys. My SC8000 has a enclosure with 12 15K RPM disks for Tier 1. For 12 disks, 3 disks are defectives . So, only 9 disks are operative. Question: how many disks needs Tier 1 to work? I have read this link: https://www.dell.com/community/Compellent/Min-Max-disks-required-per-tier-for-SC8000-Sc40

Hello All, Can i install the Dell Storage Manager r2016 R3.20 version on a virtual machine to manage my SC4020 storage array ? if not any other way there, apart from installing it on physical machine? Note: The VM is build on the same storage array SC4020 using ESxi host.

Hello All, I have SC4020 with SCOS 7.01.04 . Dell has recommended to update it to 7.2.31. But I came across a link which says 7.2.10 is supported only on SC9000, SC7020, and SC5020 series storage systems? I'm a bit confused now. Still i can go ahead with the upgrade? If so can anyone give me the st