Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Best Practices Guide

When planning to deploy this solution, you must estimate the physical space requirements required in the rack. Dell recommends you to use a 48U rack with a depth of over 1000 mm when deploying this solution to ensure ease of cable management.

The four major components of this solution are the client servers, switches, storage nodes, and the storage enclosures. While the quantity of storage nodes and storage enclosures are defined on the basis of solution that was ordered, you can customize the client servers and switches to fulfill the application requirements. Each solution’s rack space requirements are listed in Table 1.

Figure 1. Example rack space usage

1. Two Switches—Dell Networking S4810

   (1U each)

2. Two SMB Client Servers—Dell PowerEdge R630 (1U each)
3. Two Storage Nodes—Dell PowerEdge R730

   (2U each)

4. Two Storage Enclosures—Dell PowerVault MD3060e (4U each)