Dell EMC Unity Series Installation Guide

CHAPTER 1
Prepare your system
Use this section to understand what you need before you begin the installation as well
as the site requirements for the system.
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Before you begin..................................................................................................8
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Installation workflow including optional DAEs.......................................................8
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Site and equipment preparation........................................................................... 9
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Hardware acclimation times................................................................................10
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Avoiding electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage .................................................11
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Emergency procedures (without an ESD kit)......................................................12
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Dell EMC Unity Series Specifications

General

Snapshot Support	Yes
Storage Type	Hybrid Flash, All-Flash
Drive Support	SAS, SSD
Protocols	iSCSI, NFS, SMB
Data Services	Snapshots, Replication, Thin Provisioning, Deduplication, Compression
Management	Unisphere, REST API, CLI
Data Reduction Features	Deduplication, Compression
High Availability	Redundant components
Redundancy	power supplies, fans
RAID Levels Supported	RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
Replication Support	Yes
Cloud Tiering	Yes
Security Features	Encryption at rest, secure erase, role-based access control
Model	Dell EMC Unity Series