Dell Compellent Firmware 6.7 and vSphere
I'm currently running vSphere 5.5. Our storage runs on Dell Compellent SC8000 systems. We have 2 Storage Centers per geographical site.Initially when setting up the ESXi hosts, I looked through the...
View ArticleUser Opinions of Compellent SANs
I was wondering if you could please tell me how you like using the Compellent SANs and how performance is. I am currently using Equallogic SANs and am thinking of getting Compellent SANs. Any...
View ArticleSCv2020 - Architecture
Hi.Does the SCv2020 uses disk folders and we assign disk to disk folders ?On the disk folder can we assign multiple RAID levels on the same disk folder?For example we have 11x Disks and RAID 10 &...
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New Enclosure Added with 4Tb 7k disks but I have a question
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...
View ArticleNew SC220, cannot assign unassigned disks
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...
View ArticleMS SQL DBCC
I am running MS SQL 2012 SP3, and using a Compellent SC4020 for storage, when daily I run on the VSC database, DBCC CHECKDB (VSC) with data_purity,all_errormsgs,no_infomsgs, sometimes I get consistency...
View ArticleFS8600 NFS4 with Kerberos
Hi,I'm trying to mount an NFS4 export from my FS8600 NAS with Kerberos security.Environment:nas-1: FS8600 NASDirectory Service: Windows ADLC: Linux ClientOn my LC I can successfully runLC:# mount -t...
View ArticleCan't find RAID configuration, Create Pool SCv2020
Hi everyone..I'm new to Dell storage products.. After first initializitation the SCV2020, I want to create disk group or configure the RAID level for the system but I cant find them in the storage...
View ArticleData erasure tools for compellent array
Hi,Do anyone used data erasure tools to wipe data prior to decommission compellent array ?Thanks
View ArticleCannot configure SMIS user
I am trying to prepare the SMI-S user for our connection to VMM. I am going through this video by Dell TechCenter that explains in detail. I am at the steps at around the 6:40 mark of the video where...
View ArticleSNMP Monitoring
Hello to everyone,I would like to monitor my Dell Compellent SC4020 with a monitoring solution. So I found Dell Compellent MIB Package. These package give me some interesting OIDs : disk, temp, fan,...
View ArticleSC4020 to factory defaults
What is the command to reset SC4020 back to factory defaults?I would like to start anew from "prejoin" -state.
View ArticleDell SC 2020 with 10 gb iscsi Base -T Controllers
Hey folks,will above mentioned Compellents work with Dell PC6224? Judging by matrix it should, but anyone has any real life experiences?It will be on PC6224 only until we get new 10 gb switches.Have a...
View ArticleCompellent SC4020 does not allow changing Fault Domain 0's IP
I cannot change Fault Domain 0's IP address once it has been set.Nor can I remove Domain 0. I can change Fault Domain 1's IP or create another Fault Domain.The error message is:"Summary: An error...
View ArticleApply Certificate to Data Collector Manager
I'm trying to apply a certificate to the Data Collector Manager for Enterprise Manager 2015 R3. I create the correct files using a .PEM for the public and a .PFX for the private key.I used OpenSSL to...
View ArticleRoot Cause?
I use Compellent over FCOE and ISCSI for "replication only" to another site. We needed to test the root cause of slow replication. We paused replication and shut the ISCSI ports to move them to a test...
View ArticleIs RIR possible between sites which are 4000 miles apart ?
1) Is RIR possible between SC9000 and SC480 ? Are they compatible to perform RIR?2) Is RIR possible between Same SCOS with a distance of 4,000 miles and 10 ms latency ? with 500GB daily change rate?
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Volume visible after re-mapping
Dear Dell Support Team,Regards on above matter, i would like you advise on volume visible in server after i have done re-mapping. Previously there is no issue on the volume even it can see at server as...
View ArticleCalculating actual IOPS with Compellent
So hello people!What is the best way you guys have calculated IOPS. The raw IOPs is easy enough 7k disks are about 80 and 15k about 150, what are the SSDs rated at? Is there an actual datasheet from...
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Move disk from RAID 1 to RAID 5
Hi guys . My RAID 5 tiers are nearly full. It's possible move some disk from RAID 10 to RAID 5? For example, move from Tier3 RAID 10 DM (7k disks) to Tier3 RAID 6-10 (7k disks)? Thanks
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