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A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION VER A02

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) .................................................................................................................................................... 5

2. RECOMMENDED MAINTENANCE FOR DELL POWERVAULT MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION .................................... 7

3. DELL SAS PRODUCT OFFERING ......................................................................................................................................... 8

SAS Cabling .......................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Physical Drive Support ........................................................................................................................................................ 10

Third Party Hardware Support ............................................................................................................................................ 10

Server Support ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10

4. POWERVAULT MD1XXX FAMILY STORAGE ENCLOSURE DETAILS ............................................................................... 11

Enclosure Modes .................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Unified Topology .................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Split Topology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Daisy-Chaining Multiple PowerVault MD1xxx Family Storage Enclosures .................................................................... 12

PowerVault MD1xxx Family – Common Features and Capabilities ................................................................................ 13

5. PERC 5/E AND PERC 6/E CONTROLLER - DETAILED FEATURES .................................................................................. 17

PERC 5/E .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17

PERC 6/E .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17

Considerations when implementing a RAID Solution ........................................................................................................ 17

Controller Features ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17

Capacity Requirements ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19

6. DELL OPENMANAGE SERVER ADMINISTRATOR ............................................................................................................. 21

Managing the PERC 5/E and PERC 6/E Controllers and the PowerVault MD1xxx Family Storage Enclosures ......... 21

Using the Create Virtual Disk Wizards ............................................................................................................................... 21

Reconfiguring Virtual Disks -- RAID Migration and Capacity Expansion ....................................................................... 22

Moving Physical Disks and Virtual Disk Configurations – Disk Roaming and Disk Migration ..................................... 23

Importing Migrated Virtual Disks ....................................................................................................................................... 24

7. STORAGE APPLICATIONS AND COMPONENTS .................................................................................................................. 27

Identify customer usage model and needs ........................................................................................................................... 27

Picking a solution based on the application profile ............................................................................................................ 27

Application-Specific Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................... 30

E-Mail Servers ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 30

Web Servers ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31

Database or Online Transaction Processing Servers ........................................................................................................................... 32

File Servers .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 34

Streaming Media Servers ....................................................................................................................................................................... 37

Hot Spares ............................................................................................................................................................................. 38

8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 39

APPENDIX – A: REFERENCES .................................................................................................................................................... 40

9. APPENDIX – B: GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................................... 41

10. APPENDIX – C: REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................. 42