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Model: Compellent Enclosure EN-SC4020 I just popped this disk in the enclosure, to add disk space to a volume: Fired up the Storage center, and under Enclosure1\Disks, it has a status of 'Up' No othervalues are populated. I then right clicked on 'Disks' and choose 'Manage Unassigned Disk

Hi, I have a question regarding the compellent default RAID levels (RAID 5-5, 5-9,6-6, 6-10), for example if I design SC4020 with 24 disks: Q#1 If I configure dual redundancy with RAID level RAID 6-10, does it mean that there will be two sets of RAID 6 on each 10 disks? if yes then what happens to

We have a SC4020 running SCOS 7.x and when we first got it, it picked up the first server cluster as the default selection when creating volumes to make things easy. We have since retired that cluster and deleted it from Storage Manager and now we have to select the new cluster every time when we cr

Hi there, I had a couple queries I was hoping to get some help with. We're implementing a new SAN and Server setup and as part of this are procuring an SCV2020 with 24 x 1.2TB 15K drives. I've been reading through the various articles to plan our implementation but I can't really find anythin

Hi All I met a problem, the following red message displays in the Cache from Storage Read and Write Cache are currently down on this storage center Now my writing speed is incredibly slow, how to solve this?

Is it possible to migrate/move a LUN between Storage Pools? So my scenario would be 2 storage pools, Pool A and Pool B. I have LUN 1 in Pool A and I want to move it to Pool B.  If so would this affect host access? Regards.

Firstly, apologies if this is a stupid question! We've just received our first SC2020 device and reading through the setup docs it says in order to initialise the SAN we need to use a host on the same subnet.  My question is, what subnet should that be?  Is there a default

Hi,        Today, I try to initial setup on brand new SCv2020 storage. After setup the storage, I can't login with the Admin password. How to reset the Admin password? please.

I've been given the go ahead to replace two aging HP servers with 2x Dell SCv2020's and 2x R630's. The HP's currently host HyperV VM's stored on local storage, my plan is to use the SCv2020's to store the VM's and make them available to the R630's so I can live migrate between hosts. Having not us

Hello, I just had a question on when the end of life (EOL) is on the Compellent series 40 controller? Trying to plan for future initiatives. Thank you!

Can you please provide me the procedure how to change local port operational mode from virtual port mode to legacy mode or legacy mode to virtual port mode in Dell compellent SC-4020 ?

Hey guys. had an issue with our Compellant last week. Dell tech support pointed to stuck CAs causing excessive I/Os. What is a CA? What causes a CA? Thanks, vMojorod

Anyone reset the Admin password of a Storage Center SCv2080 ?? I did a initialize of a brand new SCv2080 including set of a Admin password. After I setup a Storage Manager and try to attach the new Storage Center it is not accepting my Admin password for some reason.I'm almost 100% sure I type the

Hi, We have a old Dell Compellent Series 40. I never worked on it before. Is there any way to increase the existing volume size without going off line of the volume, please ? We created a 500GB volume and mounted it to a server, Several Replays are taken as policy applied. The volume usage is aro

Hello, i want to where i can found my Service TAG of SC4020 and how i can get my license ?? thanks a lot. this forum is helpful

Hi, I have a SC4020 bay and I have not the serial cable that comes with it ?? !!! Is there a way to make the first configuration (IP address management) without using the serial cable Is that I can have the cable of reference so that I can order it ?? Thank you.

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