Lenovo DE Series Video Surveillance Best Practices
The Lenovo DE Series storage solution is ideal to help you simplify and scale your video surveillance system. This solution brief will show you why.
What are the benefits of using Lenovo DE Series for video surveillance?
Lenovo DE Series storage offers several benefits for video surveillance, including easy management and monitoring through the ThinkSystem System Manager software, high availability with dual controllers, and excellent performance. The systems are also highly scalable, allowing for easy capacity expansion, and they provide proactive drive health monitoring and data protection through various RAID levels.
How do I size storage for a video surveillance system?
When sizing storage for a video surveillance system, consider factors such as the number and type of cameras, their resolution, frame rate, and the desired retention period for recorded footage. For example, a group of 25 cameras with a resolution of 1920x1080 and a retention period of 30 days may require approximately 23.01TiB of storage.
What components are included in a typical video surveillance solution?
A typical video surveillance solution includes several key components: IP cameras for capturing video, a management server for configuration, recording servers for storing footage, optional failover servers for redundancy, viewing clients for playback, and a storage network to facilitate communication between these elements. Lenovo DE Series storage arrays serve as the backbone for storing video data.
Lenovo DE Series Video Surveillance Best Practices
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