Dell SC, perhaps better known as Compellent, has finally had its end of life formally announced. I feel like many people have been watching for this since the acquisition of EMC was announced in 2015. At that time, Dell suddenly found itself with numerous overlapping storage platforms and product teams. […]
Over the last year or so, I’ve helped multiple companies recover from ransomware events utilizing snapshots on their storage arrays. In several of these instances, the customer’s backups were compromised along with their production environment. A storage array can be a nice part of a recovery strategy, as they seem […]
This has to be one of the most commonly requested integrations for SC. It seems like every time I talk about SC with a customer, they ask about Veeam integration. After what seems like a very long wait, the SC Storage Integration for Veeam is finally available! What this plugin […]
Storage Center (Compellent) Operating System version 7.3 became generally available last month. Its been rolling through the various stages of release all summer, and I now have some customers on it. There are so many improvements in this release that I had to take a moment to talk about it. […]
I previously blogged about the release of the SC7020, which is part of the “odd number refresh” that has now added the SC5020. By this, I mean that it appears the even numbered SC platforms (SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000) will be refreshed via odd numbered platforms, of which we now have […]
** UPDATE ** This platform is no longer unified. Dell has removed the ability for the SC7020 to provide NAS services. The system has also had its scalability limited from a drive count perspective. Now at 500 drives. I will keep my comments on these changes to myself. *** […]
Dell recently announced the release of SCOS 7.0. SCOS is the Storage Center Operating System, which is the software that runs Dells SC storage line, including the SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000, and SC9000, with more to come soon. These are the products that were formerly known as Compellent. Check out the […]
Dell released the Dell SC9000 at Dell World 2015 in Austin TX this week. The SC9000 is the new high end Compellent controller, a space currently occupied by the SC8000. Much of the messaging I’ve consistently heard around the new Dell SC9000, however, is that it is not a replacement […]
Dell announced the SCv2000 series storage arrays back in May of 2015. I’m a bit late to the party here, but I wanted to wait until I had actually had the opportunity to integrate several of these systems into customer environments. These systems start at about $10k via the Dell […]
I feel like I’ve had to write and re-write this script repeatedly as I’ve needed it for various customers and tasks. Today I figured I would post it in case anyone else will find it useful. This script is similar to the Push2Tape script that comes as a sample with […]