The best practices guide delivers straightforward guidance to customers using Dell Unity™ storage systems in a mixed business environment. The focus is on system performance and maximizing the ease of use of the automated storage features, giving guidance to achieve optimal performance, while avoiding non-optimal configurations.
These guidelines are intended to cover the majority of use cases. They are strongly recommended by Dell Technologies; however, they are not strictly required. In some cases, it is completely acceptable not to adhere to them.
Some exception cases are addressed in this guide; however, less commonly encountered edge cases are not covered by general guidelines and are instead addressed in use-case-specific white papers.
If you have questions about the applicability of these guidelines in your environment, contact your Dell Technologies™ representative to discuss the appropriateness of the recommendations.
This guide occasionally presents example configuration choices in order to demonstrate how a certain recommendation might be applied. Examples will be presented as follows:
EXAMPLE: Here is one possible way to apply the recommendation…
Examples presented in this way are intended to show one possible configuration option, and do not necessarily represent a preferred configuration.