Test objectives Many factors must be considered when designing your solution. Test parameters All test parameters and scenarios reflect standard production behavior for under storage-intensive conditions, including typical storage functions and failures. We followed best practices for recovery and break-fix issues for normal situations that might arise in a standard production environment. Tests conducted Storage bandwidth and configuration testThe storage bandwidth test evaluated video storage and applications with a number of different Dell storage systems. Additional tests evaluated ESXi host hardware in relationship to vCPU settings and the resulting bandwidths.