A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION
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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) .................................................................................................................................................... 5
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SAS Cabling .......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Physical Drive Support ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
Third Party Hardware Support ............................................................................................................................................ 10
Server Support ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
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Enclosure Modes .................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Unified Topology .................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Split Topology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11
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PERC 5/E .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17
PERC 6/E .............................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Controller Features ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Capacity Requirements ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19
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Importing Migrated Virtual Disks ....................................................................................................................................... 24
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Application-Specific Guidelines ........................................................................................................................................... 30
E-Mail Servers ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 30
Web Servers ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
File Servers .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 34
Streaming Media Servers ....................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Hot Spares ............................................................................................................................................................................. 38
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6/16/2008