ECS General Best Practices

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  Overview
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  Architecture overview

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  Physical deployment
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  Planning documentation and tools
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  Power and space
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  Networking
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  All flash array (AFA) and Hard disk drive (HDD) node intermix

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  Customer-provided infrastructure
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  Domain Name System (DNS)
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  Network Time Protocol (NTP)
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  IP addressing and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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  Load balancing
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  Authentication providers
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  Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
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  Firewalls

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  Provisioning
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  Naming conventions
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  Storage pool
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  Virtual Data Center (VDC)
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  Replication group
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  Namespace
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  Buckets
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  Users and roles
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  Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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  Temporary Site Outage (TSO)

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  Security
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  Protection from unwarranted access
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  Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE)
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  Object lock

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  Application development
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  Traffic management
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  ECS extensions
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  Security
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  Object version
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  S3 select

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  Operations
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  Monitoring
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  Dell Secure Remote Services (SRS)
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  Product alerts and updates
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  Hardware capacity expansion

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  Conclusion

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  Appendix: Technical support and resources