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Summary
Dell EMC performed comprehensive testing with Milestone XProtect Corporate
against many EMC VNX and VNXe arrays and Dell EMC Isilon clusters. The VNX family
arrays performed very well as either Live DB storage, Archive DB storage, or both
when used in larger VNX arrays.
Testing focused on the Archive DB enhancements of XProtect Corporate that allow
the use of Isilon clusters running a minimum release of OneFS 7.0. The archive
process, when writing to an Isilon cluster, easily handled all video accumulated
between archive process executions. In addition, various forced Isilon failures did not
affect the Live DB to Archive DB process.
When using an Isilon cluster for the Archive DB, only two modifications to the
XProtect Corporate configuration are necessary: increase the number of archive
process threads and increase the write block size to the Archive DB.
EMC VNX arrays
The use of storage pools to create LUNs within the EMC VNX arrays greatly simplifies
the configuration and increases the performance when compared to traditional block-
level storage. Either iSCSI or FC can be implemented. FC performs better than iSCSI.
EMC VNX-VSS arrays
The VNX Video Surveillance Storage (VSS) is a storage solution that is purpose built
to meet the unique demands of the video surveillance environment.
We found that this high availability, low-cost array performs comparably to other
arrays in the VNX family.
EMC VNXe arrays
An iSCSI-connected VNXe array, implemented with storage pools, provides a cost-
effective implementation while maintaining the expected performance. Many mid-
sized deployments can use VNXe.
Low-bandwidth implementations can use a NAS-connected VNXe, but ideally NAS
implementations should be based on Dell EMC Isilon scale-out storage.
Dell EMC Isilon scale-out storage
Dell EMC Isilon scale-out storage is ideal for midtier and enterprise customers. An
Isilon cluster is based on independent nodes working seamlessly together to present a
single file system to all users.
Licensed SmartQuotas options can be configured so that each Recorder view of the
storage is based on the assigned quota and not the entire file system. We recommend
using SmartQuotas with Milestone XProtect Corporate as a best practice.
Conclusion
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