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Use GP3 EBS volumes for the root disk, NVRAM disk, and metadata disks.
Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes enable you to modify the volume type from GP2 to GP3 without detaching volumes or restarting instances.
Metadata disk storage is recommended to be 10% of the total capacity. Each metadata disk is recommended to be 1 TiB.
DDVE with block storage supports a maximum capacity of 16 TB. The recommended size of each data disk is 1 TiB.
The metadata storage recommendation in Object storage specifications is based on 10X deduplication ratio and 2X compression. For workloads with a higher deduplication ratio, more metadata storage may be required. If metadata storage usage exceeds 80%, an alert is generated. Add a metadata disk to the DDVE immediately to avoid running out of space.
It is not required to specify a spindle group when adding metadata disks. The spindle group assignment is balanced automatically when adding storage. Do not set or change the spindle group settings manually. Run the storage show all command to verify that each data volume is assigned to a different spindle group.
Rather than converting an evaluation version of DDVE to a production version, Dell Technologies recommends a fresh deployment. If it is required to convert from an evaluation version to a production version, Dell Technologies recommends the following:
AWS provides three server-side encryption options depending on how you choose to manage the encryption keys: