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October 28th, 2016 07:00

Compellent SC4020 Size Question

Hi

I've hopefully a very simple question that someone will be able to answer quickly, but it's been niggling at me for a while and, even after attending a week's course on the storage center, I still can't figure it out.

In Enterprise Manager, on the Storage tab for one of our SC4020s when it is selected in the tree, there are a few space values reported. I understand (or at least I think I understand) what all of these values are referring to, except for one - "Allocated Space". I first thought that this was the total of the configured volumes on the device, but it's not - it's less. For example, the device has a total Available Space of 12.55TB. It's over-provisioned in that the total configured space for all of the volumes comes to 15.2TB, which is fine. However, this Allocated Space figure is 8.95TB, which doesn't seem to relate to anything - and as far as I can see, this is the only place that that figure is actually reported.

Can anyone shed any light as to what this figure is / means?

Thanks,

David

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November 2nd, 2016 08:00

Dell Enterprise Manager 2015 R3 Administrator's Guide, page 277:

Allocated Space - amount of disk space allocated on the disks, displayed in units of data and as a percentage of Available Space (Tier1 RAID10 allocated space+Tier1 RAID55 allocated space + Tier2 RAIDs allocated space +Tier3 RAIDs allocated space)

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