This guide is intended for use by internal Dell EMC sales and pre-sales personnel, and qualified Dell EMC and Pelco 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
These guidelines include the following design considerations:
- Architectural overview of Pelco VideoXpert
- Dell EMC storage considerations for Pelco VideoXpert
- Result summaries for the tests carried out by Dell EMC engineers in a physical (bare metal) infrastructure
Use this guide to determine the best practices for the following:
- Number of Pelco Recorders
- Mix of nodes and Pelco Recorders based on the expected bandwidth in an Isilon implementation
- 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