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A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS
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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)....................................................................................................................................................5
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SAS Cabling............................................................................................................................................................................8
Physical Drive Support ..........................................................................................................................................................8
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Party Hardware support...................................................................................................................................................9
Server Support ........................................................................................................................................................................9
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Enclosure Modes ....................................................................................................................................................................9
Unified Topology....................................................................................................................................................................9
Split Topology.......................................................................................................................................................................10
Daisy-Chaining Multiple PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosures................................................................................10
PowerVault MD1000 - Common Features and Capabilities............................................................................................11
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Considerations when implementing a RAID Solution ........................................................................................................15
Controller Features ................................................................................................................................................................................15
Capacity Requirements...........................................................................................................................................................................17
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Managing the PERC 5/E Controller and the PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure..................................................19
Using the Create Virtual Disk Wizards ...............................................................................................................................19
Reconfiguring Virtual Disks -- RAID Migration and Capacity Expansion.......................................................................20
Moving Physical Disks and Virtual Disk Configurations - Disk Roaming and Disk Migration .....................................21
Importing Migrated Virtual Disks .......................................................................................................................................22
Upgrading from Dell OpenManage Array Manager .........................................................................................................24
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Identify customer usage model and needs...........................................................................................................................25
Picking a solution based on the application profile............................................................................................................26
Application specific guidelines ............................................................................................................................................27
E-Mail Servers ........................................................................................................................................................................................27
Web Servers.............................................................................................................................................................................................28
Database or Online Transaction Processing Servers...........................................................................................................................29
File Servers..............................................................................................................................................................................................30
Streaming Media Servers........................................................................................................................................................................32
Hot Spares.............................................................................................................................................................................33
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