Milestone XProtect Corporate is a tiered solution that works well with Dell Unity storage arrays as well as Dell Isilon scale-out storage. The first tier of storage, Live DB, can accommodate stored video for the retention period prior to being moved to the second tier, of storage, Archive DB or deleted. The best practice retention time is between 2 and 24 hours. The second storage tier is Archive DB, which can accommodate long video retention cycles prior to being deleted from the second tier of storage.
Live DB requires block storage, such as Dell Unity or Dell PowerEdge servers using iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC), or storage local to the server. In a virtualized environment, the Unity arrays can serve a dual purpose by providing storage for the LiveDB and VMware datastores. The Archive DB used as the secondary storage for video data can be stored either on an Isilon scale-out storage cluster or on a unique Unity array.
While the Milestone XProtect Corporate tiered storage solution can be deployed within a site, depending on the requirements XProtect Corporate can also provide a solution for distributed to central site architectures.