FS8600 Series (Compellent) Reference Articles

Support Library - FS8600 Series (Compellent)

Product Overview:

FS8600 scale-out NAS consists of one to four FS8600 appliances configured as a FluidFS cluster. Each NAS appliance is a rack-mounted 2U chassis that contains two hot-swappable NAS controllers in an active-active configuration. In a NAS appliance, the second NAS controller with which one NAS controller is paired is called the peer controller. FS8600 scale-out NAS supports expansion, that is, you can start with one NAS appliance and add NAS appliances to the FluidFS cluster as needed to increase performance.

NAS appliance numbers start at 1 and NAS controller numbers start at 0. Appliance 1 contains Controller 0 and Controller 1, Appliance 2 contains Controller 2 and Controller 3, and so on. To identify the physical hardware displayed in Dell Storage Manager, you must match the service tag shown in Dell Storage Manager with the service tag printed on a sticker on the front-right side of the NAS appliance.

General overview:

• FluidFS technical documents and videos (Best Practices, White Papers, Videos & more)
• Dell FluidFS Version 6.0 FS8600 Appliance Deployment Guide
• Dell Fluid File System - Version 6.0 Support Matrix (English Only) 
  • NOTE: This covers FluidFS Models and Platforms, software updates, customer management protocols, User Groups and quotas and many other items.  
• FluidFS Customer Notification: How the reclaimer service frees space on a NAS pool

• FluidFS Customer Notification: Battery Calibration Cycle is in progress
• How to Subscribe to receive Dell Driver and Firmware Update notifications
• FluidFS Customer Notification: Controller fails to boot due to a drained clock battery

• Dell Compellent FS8600: Running Diagnostics (1:33)
• Dell Compellent FS8600: Replication  (2:15)
• Dell Compellent FS8600: Failover and Failback (5:21)
• Dell Compellent FS8600: Snapshots & Cloning Part 1 (11:39)
• Dell Compellent FS8600: Snapshots & Cloning Part 2 (9:20)