The Dell EMC Safety & Security Lab is constantly being upgraded to the most recent software releases.
The virtualized Qognify host was configured as follows:
- 8 vCPUs
- 16 GB memory
- Network adapter type: VMXNET3 - 10 GbE
- Isolated VLAN for storage (if not FC)
- Local datastore for SVR virtual machine (VM) (SSD/SAS hard disk)
Microsoft MPIO is recommended for use with Unity and SC series arrays.
The Dell EMC Safety & Security Lab's host hardware met and exceeded the minimum system requirements for an ESXi/ESX Installation. The Qognify SVR VM was running on an ESXi 6.0 host using Cisco UCS B230 Blade Servers with a 20-core ESXi host at 2.2 GHz and 256 memory. For more information about VM configuration, see the General recommendations for storage and sizing section of the Using EMC VNX storage with VMWare VSphere guide.
Qognify recommends using local datastores or SAN-based RAID 1-0 datastores on ESXi hosts to place SVR VMs. Configure NAS and SAN storage for video storage.