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Hi all, I'm writing a Powershell-Script to manage a Compellent environment. I have an error, which is new for me: I can't connect to EM because SSL/TLS-connection is not possible. I did some "Google"-search and found, that Microsoft is changing some things in SSL/TLS.The related MS-Patch is insta

Hi! I have Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager application on the management station. In Event Log I quickly see next error message. Source: StorageArray ID: 3 sfh-storage1; ;Critical;The persistent monitor running on Host srv-sc can now reach the indicated Storage Array. sfh-storage is name of

can some one help me in configuring my new Dell sc4020 . 1) what will be the default ipaddress for the management port 2) what is the management tool to manage this sc4020 storage

Hi Guys, We have a SCv2080 we are just doing the initial config for now. All is well except we were doing some testing and released some disks, this moved it to the unassigned folder. We now can't seem to add these unassigned disks back to the disk folder / pool. Latest firmware etc I can't s

Hi, we are considering a SC4020 all flash array. We got a quote with 6x 1.6TB WI and 12x 3.8TB RI TLC. They told us, that the tier 1 should be sized to hold about 12 days of writing data. What I understand in the white paper "Flash-optimized Data Progression" is, that beginning with SC OS 6.4 the

I am trying to automate DR by creating views of replica replays to mount to hosts. I need to enumerate the replays before I can mount them, but when I try to enumerate replays on replica volumes, nothing is returned. For example: Get-SCReplay -SourceSCVolume $myVolume -Connection $myConnection Wh

Hi there guys, I had a sales guy tell me: Capacities based on 30% R10 / 80% R5-9. obviously you cant have 30/80 so I am assuming him meant 30/70 which seems to the the average I am having trouble understanding how the usable figure below came about? 1.9TB MRI SSD 24 Disk (23 usable) 93,794 IO

Random Question, When Tier 1 fills up, does Compellent write to Tier 2 directly? or will it first move data out of Tier 1 and into Tier 2 and then commit the write to Tier 1? Cheers

We are adding a new SC220 enclosure (10K 600GB disks) to an existing SC8000 system. The new disks appear in Unassigned folder. However, when trying to assign "unrecognized disks were selected" and classification is shown and "Unknown". Is it due to old version of SCOS not recognizing new disks' fir

So Guys, We have added a new enclosure to our sc8000 and it has 4tb 7k disks. We have created a separate folder (called secondary) and they are in a different pool, so dont take part in the normal data progression. The thing I am concerned with is they are classed as T1 disks? I want to lever

We're getting ready for a new install. Where on the Compellent page can I download the latest version of Enterprise Manager?

FS8600 How do you turn on FTP in enterprise manager 15.3.1.300? manual says to go to NAS - file system, maintenance tab and turn it on. But there is no maintenance tab?

I am trying to join our Storage Center to our domain. I have the configuration correct and when I run "Test Servers" it completes successfully.  I then attempt to join with a domain admin username/pass, but it continues to fail with: Summary: Join domain failed for host: Cause: Join domain

Hi All, Just recently setup a new SC4020 compellent and R730xd server. This will be part of a bigger network but at the moment I'm testing failover and redundancy and just trying to get my head around Virtual Ports and MP. Current test environment comprises of a Compellent SAN, 2 Fibre Switches, E

Hi All, I encountered a problem when checking my compellent summary report. May I seek for your help on how to understanding each setting below?? Assigned: 6TB to one servers What I got the report like this for one Volume: I'm getting confuse on the Total Disk Space, Actual space and Active

Hi guys, I'm installing a new storage Dell Compellent SCv2020 with vSphere 5.5 U3b for an existing customer I have deep knowledge of Dell PowerVault storages but I'm new with Dell Compellent. I've read that making snapshots for backups or running Storage vMotion can affect free space on the storage

We have a Dell MD3220. one of the wrong drives was pulled out by a end user trying to swap a failed drive. Then after the correct drive was replaced the old drive was put back into the correct slot. now we have one hot spare(enclosure 0, slot 23) subbing for another hot spare(enclosure 2,

Hi Guys, Basically I have a support called raised with compellent support. We have a 1Gb link between two sites, and we replicate some volumes across the link. We have replays that run at 6am and 6pm and from about 6am-8am and 6pm-8m the link gets utlized as you would expect, but after then it slo

Hi there Trying to get multipath and switch fabric resilience working with a dual FD setup on the SC4020. FDs are ISCSI1 and ISCSI2. SAN IP addresses ISCSI1 IP address 10.154.167.205/24 Controller X p1 10.154.167.201/24 Controller Y p1 10.154.167.203/24 ISCSI2 IP address 10.154.168.206/24 C

Hi i'm trying to figure if it's funny issue on ours SC8000 6.6 OS or by design (and if so, why?). Sending packets (ping -l) bigger than the MTU that configured on the server is returning a timeout.regardless if i'm setting it to any 9014/4088/1650. these servers have no problem to ping each other