Dell Unity: Best Practices Guide

• 1

  Overview
• 2

  Revisions
• 3

  We value your feedback

• 1

  Essential Guidelines
• 2

  SAS Cabling and Drive Placement
• 3

  Hot Spares
• 4

  Front-End Connectivity
• 5

  Hardware Capability Guidelines
• 6

  Sizing Dell Unity for Performance Requirements
• 7

  Dell UnityVSA

• 1

  General Recommendations for Storage Pools
• 2

  Dynamic Pools

• 1

  FAST VP
• 2

  FAST CACHE
• 3

  Data Reduction
• 4

  Snapshots
• 5

  Thin Clones
• 6

  Asynchronous Replication
• 7

  Synchronous Replication / Metrosync
• 8

  SAN Copy
• 9

  NDMP
• 10

  Host I/O Limits

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  Host Alignment for Block LUNs
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  VMware ESXi
• 3

  Transactional Applications
• 4

  Sequential Applications

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  Conclusion

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  Technical Support and Resources

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  Related Resources