This guide is intended for use by internal Dell EMC sales and pre-sales personnel, and qualified Dell EMC and Qognify partners.
The guidelines presented are for storage platform positioning and system sizing. The sizing recommendations are based on performance and storage protocol conclusions derived from Dell EMC testing.
The guidelines for sizing this video storage solution describe the use of the following storage platforms:
- Dell EMC Isilon
- Dell EMC Unity
- Dell EMC SC series
These guidelines include the following design considerations:
- Bandwidth recommendations for Qognify and one or more Dell EMC systems
- Architectural overview of Qognify
- Dell EMC storage considerations for Qognify
Use this guide to determine the best practices for the following:
- Number of Qognify SVRs
- Mix of nodes and Qognify SVRs based on the expected bandwidth in an Isilon implementation
- Storage using Fibre Channel (FC) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) on Unity and SC series systems
- Storage using Server Message Block (SMB) on Isilon systems
- Load factors related to the use of Dell EMC storage arrays in the customer's solution