Dell PowerVault MD1000 SAS Solution Guide de l'utilisateur

A Reference Guide for Optimizing the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD1000 SAS Solution Authored By: SAS Solution Team April, 2006 rev

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 10 5/06/2005 Split Topology In split mode, the enclosure is divided i

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 11 5/06/2005 Figure 4: Max configuration on a single PERC 5/E controll

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 12 5/06/2005 Mixing Physical Disk Capacities By supporting the mixing o

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 13 5/06/2005 External SAS Cables Depending on the enclosure topology, o

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 14 5/06/2005 Reliability Capabilities • Thermal Reliability A fully-re

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 15 5/06/2005 5. PERC 5/E Controller - Detailed Features PERC 5/E is th

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 16 5/06/2005 • RAID Level Migration Changing the RAID level of a virtu

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 17 5/06/2005 A global hot spare is a backup physical disk capable of r

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 18 5/06/2005 Table 2: PERC 5/E controller features Feature Comment SAS

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 19 5/06/2005 6. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Dell OpenManage

2 THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. TH

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 20 5/06/2005 Figure 6: Screenshot of Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizar

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 21 5/06/2005 Table 3: Virtual disk reconfiguration on the PERC 5/E RAID

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 22 5/06/2005 The following procedure describes how to migrate the physi

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 23 5/06/2005 Figure 7: Physical Disk with a Foreign State The Server

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 24 5/06/2005 Figure 8: Controller Tasks Drop-down Menu With the Import

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 25 5/06/2005 SNMP Traps The architecture for handling SNMP traps and t

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 26 5/06/2005 Picking a solution based on the application profile One o

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 27 5/06/2005 RAID 10 RAID 10 has good I/O performance, excellent availa

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 28 5/06/2005 Table 7: Email Sever RAID Guidelines RAID Level Applicati

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 29 5/06/2005 Table 9: Web RAID Guidelines RAID Level Application Conca

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 3 5/06/2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ...

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 30 5/06/2005 Table 11: OLTP RAID Guidelines RAID Level Application Con

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 31 5/06/2005 Table13: Archival File Server RAID Guidelines RAID Level

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 32 5/06/2005 Recommended: • RAID 5 – Recommended for file servers that

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 33 5/06/2005 • RAID 50 – Recommended for those solutions that require

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 34 5/06/2005 Performance both availability and performance provides c

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 35 5/06/2005 9. Appendix – A: References 1. SAS Protocol Specificatio

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 4 5/06/2005 1. Introduction A complete enterprise storage solution

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 5 5/06/2005 The paper presumes that the reader has a basic understandin

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 6 5/06/2005 Figure 2: Bandwidth improvement with SAS port aggregat

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 7 5/06/2005 http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 8 5/06/2005 Performance • Support for 3.0 Gbps SAS physical disks (bot

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ MD1000 SAS SOLUTIONS VER A00 PAGE 9 5/06/2005 For the latest information on support for specific physical