Dell POWERVAULT MD1000 - Manual (Page 3)

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
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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