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Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect
Corporate

Surveillance

June 2018

H14501.4

Configuration Guide

Abstract

This configuration guide provides the storage-specific configuration requirements and

Milestone storage tiering options necessary for a successful Milestone XProtect

Corporate 2018 installation.

Dell EMC Solutions

Summary of Contents for Isilon

Page 1: ...ce June 2018 H14501 4 Configuration Guide Abstract This configuration guide provides the storage specific configuration requirements and Milestone storage tiering options necessary for a successful Milestone XProtect Corporate 2018 installation Dell EMC Solutions ...

Page 2: ...ATION IN THIS PUBLICATION AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE USE COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION OF ANY DELL SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS PUBLICATION REQUIRES AN APPLICABLE SOFTWARE LICENSE Dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc or its subsidiaries Other trademarks may be the property of their respective owners Published in...

Page 3: ...le storage NAS 16 XProtect specific configuration 17 Configuring Active Directory and domain controller 18 Hard disk formatting 18 Enabling motion detection 19 Modifying the number of archive process threads 19 Modifying the Archive DB write block size 20 Isilon OneFS for the Archive DB 21 OneFS 8 1 job workers required 21 Multipathing and NIC failures 21 Conclusion 23 Summary 24 EMC VNX arrays 24...

Page 4: ...CONTENTS 4 Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate ...

Page 5: ...CHAPTER 1 Introduction This chapter presents the following topics l Solution overview 6 l Purpose 6 l Scope 6 l Assumptions 7 Introduction 5 ...

Page 6: ...XProtect Corporate can also provide a solution for distributed to central site architectures Purpose This configuration guide aims to help Dell EMC field personnel understand how to configure Dell EMC storage system offerings to simplify the implementation of Milestone XProtect Corporate This document is not a replacement for the Milestone implementation guide nor is it a replacement for the Dell ...

Page 7: ...alling and configuring Isilon storage solutions l Familiar with installing and configuring VMware hypervisors and the appropriate operating system such as Microsoft Windows or a Linux distribution l Able to access the EMC VNX Storage with Video Management Systems Configuration Guide and Dell EMC Isilon Storage with Video Management Systems Configuration Guide The configurations that are documented...

Page 8: ...Introduction 8 Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate ...

Page 9: ...CHAPTER 2 Configuring the solution This chapter presents the following topics l Dell EMC storage considerations for Milestone XProtect Corporate 10 l Releases tested 13 Configuring the solution 9 ...

Page 10: ...S and storage area network SAN Figure 1 Milestone XProtect Corporate architecture Video is initiated at the camera and XProtect initially places that video in the Live DB Milestone recommends a retention period of from 2 to 24 hours for video in the Live DB as outlined in Retention periods XProtect moves video files at rest from the Live DB storage tier to the Archive DB storage tier at regular in...

Page 11: ...Archive DB l VNX VSS or VNXe storage can be used for n LiveDB only n LiveDB as the first tier in a tiered implementation n Archive DB as the second tier in a tiered implementation l For Isilon scale out storage NAS can be used with Isilon OneFS 7 0 or higher Use the default Isilon protection scheme unless the customer needs additional protection l You can use GigE or 10 GbE network interface cards...

Page 12: ...ity arrays and VNX family arrays with iSCSI l For a single storage platform including both the Live DB and Archive DB we tested a VNX5800 with FC and iSCSI The following table lists the Dell EMC storage platforms and network protocols determined to be suitable for each XProtect video database storage tier Table 1 Storage and protocols for XProtect database tiers Array cluster Database Protocol Ver...

Page 13: ...sts Milestone XProtect Corporate with the latest Dell EMC storage offerings For a complete list of XProtect releases and Dell EMC Storage offerings that have been tested see the Dell EMC Surveillance Validiation Matrix Configuring the solution Releases tested 13 ...

Page 14: ...Configuring the solution 14 Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate ...

Page 15: ...CHAPTER 3 Dell EMC storage configuration This chapter describes best practices for Dell EMC storage configurations l Block storage SAN local 16 l File storage NAS 16 Dell EMC storage configuration 15 ...

Page 16: ...ardware with unified software to harness unstructured data Powered by the distributed Isilon OneFS operating system an Isilon cluster delivers a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace The platform s unified software provides centralized web based and command line administration to manage the following features l A symmetrical cluster that runs a distributed file system l Scale out nodes ...

Page 17: ...ased storage refer to the Milestone recommendations and best practices l Configuring Active Directory and domain controller 18 l Hard disk formatting 18 l Enabling motion detection 19 l Modifying the number of archive process threads 19 l Modifying the Archive DB write block size 20 l Isilon OneFS for the Archive DB 21 l Multipathing and NIC failures 21 XProtect specific configuration 17 ...

Page 18: ...tab and update the credentials for the Active Directory user 6 Restart the service Hard disk formatting One factor that can impact a disk s performance in a video surveillance system is the cluster size of the formatted hard disk Note Update the allocation unit size when formatting the hard drive to significantly improve the performance of the archive process Multi tier implementation Live DB Chan...

Page 19: ...ree or four archive processes By default XProtect uses a single thread Procedure 1 Stop the Milestone XProtect Corporate Recording Server Service 2 Go to C ProgramData Milestone XProtect Recording Server 3 Open the RecorderConfig file 4 Edit the file as follows to change the low priority archive thread pool size to 3 and the high priority archive thread pool size to 4 thread_pools delete_thread_po...

Page 20: ...equence signature 4194304 signature precreate_sizes media_block_files use_os_cache true read_buffer_size 4096 read_buffer_size write_buffer_size 4096 write_buffer_size media_block_files sequence_block_files use_os_cache true read_buffer_size 4096 read_buffer_size write_buffer_size 4096 write_buffer_size sequence_block_files signature_block_files use_os_cache true read_buffer_size 4096 read_buffer_...

Page 21: ...dancy configure multiple NICs with the recorders and controllers Recorders that are configured with multipathing reconnect to the volume across another available path after a NIC failure The TCP Max transmissions value determines how many times the Transmission Control Protocol TCP retransmits an unacknowledged data segment on an existing connection The TCP retransmits data segments until they are...

Page 22: ...Y_LOCAL_MACHINE System CurrentControlSet Services Tcpip Parameters Value Name TCPInitialRtt Data Type REG_DWORD Number Valid Range 0 0xFFFFFFFF Value 2 XProtect specific configuration 22 Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate ...

Page 23: ...CHAPTER 5 Conclusion This chapter presents the following topics l Summary 24 Conclusion 23 ...

Page 24: ... 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 VNX...

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