Replication Fault domain
Hi,We have dual compellent sc8000 controllers on both primary and dr sites having 100mb pipe fore the async replication now I want to segregate replication traffic by creating another fault domain...
View ArticleDell Switches?
I'm looking into purchasing switches along with a Compellent SAN and I have a few questions:1) Which switches do you guys use with the SAN2) How do you guys like them?3) Are PoE switches like the Dell...
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getting error while creating volume on DR FS Cluster
Hi All,need your valuable remarks/solution regarding the error which appears while creating volumes on the DR fluidFs Cluster.
View ArticleFS8600 - FluidFS V5 - Speed Issues - Jumbo Frames
We have had a pair of FS8600 installed with SCv2080 for the storage. This is presented on a 10Gb network for storage, we have been experiencing speed issues particularly with Read which are only ever...
View ArticleiSCSI LUN mapping recommendations
Hi all!I am interested in what you guys consider to be the best configuration for mapping a large number of LUNs to multiple VMware ESX clusters?Here is a bit of background, I currently have just over...
View Articlehost partially connected
Hi I need help.Storage Compellent SC200I have a situation where a cluster with 2 hosts has a status of partially connected. Both hosts are connected to the same controller, SN12010 ( the other is...
View Articlehost partially connected
Hi I need help.Storage Compellent SC200I have a situation where a cluster with 2 hosts has a status of partially connected. Both hosts are connected to the same controller, SN12010 ( the other is...
View ArticleReduce email from SC8000
Hi,I am new with Dell Storage, so please be gentle ;)We have SC8000, and when there was a disk failure we got something like 300 emails of this. Is there any way to limit the amount of emails sent? I...
View ArticleMin/Max disks required per tier for SC8000/Sc4020
Hi Guys,I currently have multiple SC8000 controllers, and I am just trying to find some solid info.I want to know what the min number of disks is required per Tier and what he max allowed is?I cant...
View ArticleTiering Question
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
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Dell Compellent SC4020 Replication
Hi,We have 2x SC4020FC. One is for Prod and the other is for DR.We have installed Enterprise manager for us to manage the systems and manage replication.We have enabled iSCSI replication on both...
View ArticleUsable disk sizing question Compellent
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 averageI am having trouble...
View ArticleSC8000/SC9000 Controller max IOPs
Hi There,Where can I find info on the IOPs a single controller can handle and how much they can handle in a pair (active/active)?I cant seem to find info anywhere, I have seen 200k and 300k quoted in...
View ArticleReset Compellent SCv2000 to Factory Default
Hi,Can someone help to provide procedure or documentation on how to reset Compellent SCv2000 to Factory Default?
View ArticleCompellent SC4020 - Nagios/Icinga plugin
I need to monitor Dell Compellent SC4020 + NAS FS8600 with nagios/icinga. I can`t find any plugin online that can help me with this task. I would like status like raid, disk and volume-status. Someone...
View Articlethin or thick disk in vmware
Got myself a new SC4020 and I'm having a fun time trying to figure this thing out, especially how to calculate space usage.Per the best practice document I'm supposed to use thick (lazy zeroed) disks....
View Articlemapping a volumes to multiple esxi clusters
Hi,I want to create a iso/template datastore, and I want to map it across multiple clusters.I get a warning advising against this.....why? What is different from mapping it to one cluster instead of 3?...
View ArticleWhat cables do I need to attach sc220 to sc8000?
What cables do I need to attach sc220 to sc8000?
View ArticleDo I still need to backup the Recovery Partition?
I have a XPSL 502X laptop that came with a Recovery Partition (R) to restore the system to its original Win 7 factory image. The third party system image backup software that I use invariably assigns...
View ArticlePowershell List Replica Replays
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,...
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