Configuration Best Practices—Dell Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate

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  Solution overview
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  Purpose
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  Scope
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  Assumptions

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  Dell EMC storage considerations for Milestone XProtect Corporate
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  Releases tested

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  Dell EMC ECS
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  Retention periods and policies
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  Cluster Capacity
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  Quotas
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  Garbage collection and space reclamation
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  Dell EMC GeoDrive
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  ECS tuning for safety and security implementations

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  Dell EMC Unity and Dell EMC SC series
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  Dell EMC PowerVault ME4
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  Multipathing and NIC failures
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  iSCSI Initiator Queue Depth On ESXi hosts

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  Design concepts and disclaimers
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  Isilon (NAS)
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  OneFS 8.1 job workers (required)
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  Endurant cache
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  Impact policy and priority configuration
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  Volume limits
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  Large file system, small view (SmartQuotas)
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  Unique share naming
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  Configuring SmartConnect
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  Configuring SmartQuotas (recommended)
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  SMB specific configuration
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  Link aggregation
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  I/O optimization configuration
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  Configuring authentication and access control
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  Data protection

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  Design concepts and disclaimers
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  Dell Technologies Safety & Security VxRail environment
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  Releases validated
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  Connecting the VxRail and Isilon nodes
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  Connecting the VxRail P570 nodes
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  Connecting the Isilon nodes

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  Configuring Active Directory and domain controller
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  Hard disk formatting
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  Enabling motion detection
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  Modifying the number of archive process threads
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  Modifying the Archive DB write block size
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  Isilon OneFS for the Archive DB
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  Multipathing and NIC failures
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  iSCSI initiator queue depth on ESXi hosts