Dell PowerVault DR4100 - Manual (Page 4)

4 DR4100 Best Practice Guide | April 2014
Executive summary
This document contains some of the best practices for deploying, configuring, and maintaining a Dell DR 4x00 backup
and deduplication appliance in a production environment. Following these best practices can help ensure the product is
optimally configured for a given environment.
Note: this guide is not a replacement for the administrator’s guide. In most cases, this guide provides only a high level
description of the problem and solution. Please refer to the administrator guide for the specific options and steps
required to implement the recommended actions.
Please consider the administrator’s guide as a pre-requisite for this paper, or at least as a reference guide on how to
complete the tasks listed here in this guide. The administrator’s guide for 2.1 can be found in the list of links below.
In addition to this document, we recommend the following documents for the advanced reader.