The storage bandwidth test evaluated video storage and applications with a number of different Dell EMC storage systems. Additional tests evaluated ESXi host hardware in relationship to vCPU settings and the resulting bandwidths.
During these tests, we configured FLIR Latitude using FLIR Latitude's best practices. We operated FLIR Latitude within the recommended bandwidth, camera count, and other FLIR maximum requirements.
- Configured video storage for a Dell EMC storage system.
- Set up camera simulators (traffic generators) to produce a traffic load to each FLIR Archiver at the recommended bandwidth.
- Evaluated the network and video storage to ensure an error-free environment at the induced bandwidth.
- Introduced storage device errors including:
- Disk failures and rebuilds on Unity arrays
- Use of only one Unity storage processor
- NIC failures with active/active and active/passive configurations
- Captured the storage system and host statistics.
- Based on the test results:
- If no issues were detected, incremented the bandwidth.
- If issues were detected, decreased the bandwidth.
This procedure was repeated until the maximum error-free bandwidth was determined.