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 We ran tests with the SmartConnect configuration in place and the SMB shares were mounted using the SmartConnect zone name. 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.