Introduction:

For large enterprises, it may make sense to use custom-configured server hardware to host the 3VR VisionPoint systems. While we do not intend this guide to replace or override the recommendations of IT professionals, we can offer some general guide lines of best practices for managing storage that will give our customers the best possible experience with our software solutions. Note that this document will make extensive reference to different types of RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) configurations and partitions. For a quick background primer on RAID, we recommend this short article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels. For a quick background primer on disk partitioning we also recommend Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning.

Minimum Recommended Storage:

The bare minimum HDD storage configuration should be 4 enterprise class HDD's. In this scenario, the 4 drives should be divided into 2 independent RAID 1 pairs. The first RAID 1 pair can be small enough to hold just the Windows operating system along with at least 50% additional free space. The second RAID 1 pair should be as large as possible to hold both the video information and the database file. Please see the table below:

Ideal Storage:

In the ideal scenario, there are separate RAID arrays for the boot volume, video application volume and the SQL storage volume. Again, only enterprise class HDD's should be considered. This scenario presumes that the database will be stored locally instead of a dedicated Database Server. If you are using an external Database Server, you can disregard the Database Volume row.