Dell PowerEdge R640 55TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Reference Architecture for - Page 12

Storage configuration 4 Storage configuration 4.1 Cabling The hardware components were connected using Dell EMC best practices. In a direct-connect configuration, each HBA should have one port connected to the top storage controller and the other port connected to the bottom storage controller (see Figure 3). 4.2 Single server configuration cabling diagram Storage pools Two virtual storage pools were created with twelve disks each and assigned a data protection type of RAID-5. RAID-5 data protection is used for this solution because it provides maximum capacity while still maintaining great read performance. With the ME4 Series, a storage pool is owned by a single controller. Therefore, creating two storage pools allows the workload to be distributed across both controllers. 12 55TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 using Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 and Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 | 3918-RA-SQL