Introduction 5
Solution overview......................................................................................... 6
Purpose........................................................................................................ 6
Scope........................................................................................................... 6
Assumptions................................................................................................. 7
Configuring the solution 9
Dell EMC storage considerations for Milestone XProtect Corporate...........10
Video Flow..................................................................................... 10
Live DB...........................................................................................10
Archive DB......................................................................................11
Storage considerations for Live DB and Archive DB........................11
Summary of Dell EMC storage and network protocols................... 12
Releases tested...........................................................................................13
Dell EMC storage configuration 15
Block storage (SAN, local).......................................................................... 16
File 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
EMC VNX-VSS arrays................................................................... 24
EMC VNXe arrays..........................................................................24
Dell EMC Isilon scale-out storage.................................................. 24
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
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Dell EMC Storage with Milestone XProtect Corporate 3