This guide is intended for use by internal Dell sales and pre-sales personnel, and qualified Dell and Honeywell 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 testing.
The guidelines for sizing this video storage solution describe the use of the following storage platforms:
- Dell Isilon
- Dell Unity
- Dell PowerEdge
These guidelines include the following design considerations:
- Architectural overview of Honeywell DVM
- Dell storage considerations for Honeywell DVM
Use this guide to determine the best practices for the following:
- Number of DVM Recorders
- Mix of nodes and DVM Recorders based on the expected bandwidth in an Isilon implementation
- Storage using Fibre Channel (FC) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) on Unity systems
- Storage using Server Message Block (SMB) on Isilon systems
- Load factors related to the use of Dell storage arrays in the customer's solution