Configuration Best Practices—Dell storage solution with Genetec Security Center

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  Introduction
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  Purpose
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  Scope
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  Assumptions

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  Solution environment
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  Design concepts and disclaimers
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  Releases tested
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  Dell Technologies Safety & Security Lab test environment
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  Network

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  Object Storage considerations
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  Dell ECS
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  Retention periods and policies
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  Cluster Capacity
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  Quotas
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  Garbage collection and space reclamation
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  Dell EMC GeoDrive
  • Configure GeoDrive parameters for the ECS bucket
  • Configuring Genetec for use with RSA
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  ECS tuning for safety and security implementations
  • Set the Genetec Archiver to 500 MB

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  SAN considerations
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  Dell Unity and Dell SC series
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  Dell PowerVault ME4
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  Multipathing and NIC failures
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  iSCSI Initiator Queue Depth On ESXi hosts

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  PowerScale considerations with SMB
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  Design concepts and disclaimers
  • Releases tested
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  PowerScale (NAS)
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  Dell Technologies Safety & Security Lab recommendations
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  Impact policy and priority configuration
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  SmartPools job
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  Virtual hot spare - 8 nodes or less
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  MultiScan and AutoBalance jobs
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  FlexProtect job
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  Dedupe and Compression
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  Configuring SmartConnect
  • Client connection balancing policy
  • IP Failover Policy
  • Rebalance policy
  • Static or dynamic IP address allocation
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  Large file system, small view (SmartQuotas)
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  Configuring SmartQuotas (recommended)
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  Configuring authentication and access control
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  Data protection
  • Isilon protection with OneFS

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  Isilon considerations with NFS
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  Implementing NFS
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  Identity management and authentication
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  Configure IP address allocation
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  Load balancing
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  Static or dynamic IP address allocation
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  Dynamic failover
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  Dynamic failover examples
  • Dynamic Allocation with 1 IP address per node
  • Dynamic Allocation with 3 IP addresses per node
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  Access Zone

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  Hyperconverged considerations with vSAN
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  Design concepts and disclaimers
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  Dell Technologies Safety & Security Lab HCI environment
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  Releases validated
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  Connecting the vSAN and ECS nodes

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  Converged considerations with VxRail
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  Design concepts and disclaimers
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  Dell Technologies Safety & Security VxRail environment
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  Releases validated
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  Connecting the VxRail and Isilon nodes
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  Connecting the VxRail E560 nodes
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  Connecting the Isilon nodes

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  Server considerations
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  Dell PowerEdge servers
  • PowerEdge R740xd and R740xd2
  • PowerEdge XE7100