A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS
VER A00
PAGE 3
5/06/2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.
I
NTRODUCTION
................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).................................................................................................................................................... 5
2.
R
ECOMMENDED
M
AINTENANCE FOR YOUR
D
ELL
P
OWER
V
AULT
MD1000
SAS
S
OLUTION
......................................... 6
3.
D
ELL
’
S
SAS
P
RODUCT
O
FFERING
..................................................................................................................................... 7
SAS Cabling ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8
Physical Drive Support .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
3
rd
Party Hardware support................................................................................................................................................... 9
Server Support ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9
4.
P
OWER
V
AULT
MD1000
S
TORAGE
E
NCLOSURE
D
ETAILS
................................................................................................ 9
Enclosure Modes .................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Unified Topology .................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Split Topology.......................................................................................................................................................................10
Daisy-Chaining Multiple PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosures................................................................................10
PowerVault MD1000 – Common Features and Capabilities ............................................................................................11
5.
PERC
5/E
C
ONTROLLER
-
D
ETAILED
F
EATURES
............................................................................................................ 15
Considerations when implementing a RAID Solution ........................................................................................................15
Controller Features
................................................................................................................................................................................15
Capacity Requirements
...........................................................................................................................................................................17
6.
D
ELL
O
PEN
M
ANAGE
S
ERVER
A
DMINISTRATOR
............................................................................................................. 19
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
7.
S
TORAGE
A
PPLICATIONS AND
C
OMPONENTS
.................................................................................................................. 25
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
8.
S
UMMARY AND
C
ONCLUSIONS
........................................................................................................................................ 33
9.
A
PPENDIX
–
A:
R
EFERENCES
............................................................................................................................................ 35
10.
A
PPENDIX
–
B:
G
LOSSARY
........................................................................................................................................... 35
11.
A
PPENDIX
–
D:
R
EVISION
H
ISTORY
............................................................................................................................. 35
