The R760xd2 is a 2U dense storage chassis for safety and security workloads. It supports dual processors. The R760xd2 chassis supports up to 28 x 3.5" disks.
The test results are based on a model in which the constant-bandwidth safety and security video traffic remained unaffected during select storage failure scenarios, such as disk rebuild and failing network paths.
We performed all tests with disk drive failures or NIC failures to ensure a worst-case scenario for all sizing parameters.
Multiarchiver tests were conducted with a single instance of Security Center running multiple Archiver services.
Tests were conducted with VMware vSphere 8 hypervisor hosting 4 Genetec Archivers.
Dell recommends using RAID 6 with local storage to accommodate the disk rebuild duration. For example, in the Dell Technologies Safety & Security Lab, a disk rebuild in a 16 x 10 TB disk system takes at least 36 hours to complete when 10TB of data and 37.5 MB/s (300 Mb/s) of write are in place.
PowerEdge R760xd2 with local storage
The following table provides bandwidth-sizing guidelines with local storage based on our test results.
Component | Details |
VMS Name | Genetec Security Center |
Version | 5.11.1.0 |
Bandwidth Details | Bandwidth mB/s (Mb/s) |
Baseline Node Bandwidth | 37.5 (300) |
Baseline Per Archiver | 37.5 (300) |
Max Number or Archivers per node | 3 |
Component | Details |
Server Model | PowerEdge R760xd2 |
Hypervisor version | VMware ESXi, 8.0.2, 22380479 |
Processor Model | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5416S |
Number of Processors | 2 |
Cores per socket | 16 |
Memory | 256 GB |
Disk Controller tested | PERC H965i |
VMS Storage Tier | N/A |
Recorder VM Details | Details |
Compute Platform | vSAN AllFlash Storage |
ESXi Version | VMware ESXi, 8.0.2, 22380479 |
Number of VMs per ESXi host | 3 |
Guest OS | Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard |
vCPU | 8 |
vMemory | 16 GB |
vNIC type | VMXNET 3 |
Per Archivers Video Storage | 60 TB |
Component | Details |
Storage Used | PowerEdge R760xd2 - local storage |
Disk type | NL SAS |
Disk capacity | 20 TB |
RAID configuration | RAID 6 (10x2) |
Number of drives per RAID set | 10 |
RAID sets per server | 2 |
Hot Spare | 2 GHS |
Component | Details |
Camera type | Virtual Camera |
Number of cameras | 300 - 1 Mbps, 60 - 5 Mbps |
Bitrate | 1 Mbps, 5 Mbps |
Codec | H264 |
FPS | 30 |
Resolution | 1080x720 |