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Data Protection	FluidFS / NAS	SQL Server
Databases (General)	Linux / Unix	Virtualization
Exchange Server	Oracle	Windows Server
Storage Center (General)	SharePoint	Enterprise Manager

Data Protection

Title	Published/Updated	Type
CommVault Simpana 10 Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	September 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Live Volume Feature Brief	June 2014	Feature Brief
Dell Compellent Live Volume and Synchronous Replication Demo Video	June 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Synchronous Replication & Live Volume Solutions Guide	June 2014	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent Storage Center With CommVault Simpana 9.0 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent with IBM SAN Volume Controller SVC Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
NetBackup v7.5 with Dell Compellent Arrays Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
SAN-Based Backup and Recovery with Microsoft Data Protection Manager and Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide

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Databases (General)

Title	Published/Updated	Type
DB2 UDB with Consistency Groups in Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent MySQL Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center DB2 UDB Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
MySQL Backup and Clone with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Sybase ASE Backup and Clone with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide

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Enterprise Manager

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Creating and mapping a volume in Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video
Create a Cluster Object in Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video
Edit User Preferences in Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video
Recovering data from a Replay using Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video
Creating a Replay profile and applying it to a volume using Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video
Using the Enterprise Manager Server Agent on a Windows server to create a volume	August 2014	Video
Creating Threshold Definitions in Enterprise Manager	August 2014	Video

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Exchange Server

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Storage Center SC4020 v6.5 with iSCSI - 7,000 Mailbox Exchange 2013 Resiliency Storage Solution	January 2015	Technical Report
Exchange 2013 reference architecture using Dell SC4020 and Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V	October 2014	Reference Architecture
Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 with Dell Compellent Storage Arrays	August 2014	Deployment and Configuration
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent SC4020 v6.5 10,000 Mailbox Exchange 2013 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	June 2014	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent SC4020 v6.5 4,500 Mailbox Exchange 2013 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	June 2014	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 25,000 mailboxes	January 2014	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 50,000 mailboxes	January 2014	Technical Report
Dell Compellent Jetstress Overview - Testing Best Practice Requirements	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Best Practices	January 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent SC8000 50000-user Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Solution (ESRP 3.0)	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent SC8000 v6.3 2500-user Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent SC8000 v6.3 5000-user Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.3 Data Progression with Exchange 2010	November 2013	Solutions Guide
DELL Compellent Storage Center Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Exploring Rate of Change for Exchange 2010 with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 10000 mailboxes (10K Drive Configuration)	October 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 10000 mailboxes (7K Drive Configuration)	October 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 5000 mailboxes (10K Drive Configuration)	October 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.4 / 5000 mailboxes (7K Drive Configuration)	October 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Microsoft Recommendations for Structuring an Exchange Server Disk Subsystem	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Understanding Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Replication with Compellent Storage Center and Replay Manager	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent SC8000 v6.3 10,000-user Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	November 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent SC8000 v6.3 50,000-user Exchange 2010 Mailbox Resiliency Solution	November 2013	Technical Report
Microsoft ESRP - Dell Compellent Storage Center (SC8000) 50,000 Mailbox Exchange 2010 Virtualized Resiliency Storage Solution	November 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent Replay Manager 7.0 and Exchange 2013 Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Replay Manager 6.0 and Exchange 2010 Demo	January 2014	Video

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FluidFS / NAS

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Title	Published/Updated	Type
Data Reduction on the V4 FluidFS FS8600	April 2015	Video
Running Milestone XProtect with Dell FS8600 Scale-out File System	February 2015	Best Practices
Using System Access Control Lists (SACLs) on the FS8600 V4	February 2015	Video
Using Directory Quotas on the FS8600 V4	January 2015	Video
Snapshots and Cloning on the FS8600 (part 2 of 2)	January 2015	Video
Archiving with FS8600	December 2014	White paper
Snapshots and Cloning on the FS8600 (part 1 of 2)	November 2014	Video
Replication Setup and Configuration with the FS8600	November 2014	Video
Using the FS8600 for User Home Shares	November 2014	Video
Running Oracle over NFS with the Dell Compellent FS8600 Scale-out File System	May 2014	Best Practices
FS8600 Snapshot and Cloning Best Practices	April 2014	Best Practices
FS8600 with VMware vSphere Deployment and Configuration Best Practices	April 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent FluidFS v3 (FS8600) Networking Best Practices	October 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent FluidFS (FS8600) Disaster Recovery Solutions Guide	October 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent NX3000 with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices

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Linux / Unix

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Dell Storage Center with OpenStack Cinder Best Practices	July 2015	Best Practices
Dell Storage Center with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7x Best Practices	April 2015	Best Practices
AIX Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	May 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent HP UX 11.0 and 11i Basic Setup with Symantec Veritas VxVM	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent HP UX Best Practices 11i v2 and 11i v1	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent HP UX Best Practices 11i v3	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Linux on POWER Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Storage Center with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6x Best Practices	April 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent RHEL Cluster Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Solaris 10 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Solaris 11 Best Practices	April 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center with IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices	October 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent SuSE 11 Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent TechTip Seamless Migrations with Linux and Live Volume	November 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent TechTip Solaris 10 Boot from SAN	November 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent TechTip Solaris 10 Remove a LUN	November 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent TechTip Solaris 10 Volume Expansion with UFS	November 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent Using Storage Center with FCoE and Linux	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent with XenConvert Thin Provisioning	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Solaris 11 Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	October 2013	Best Practices

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Oracle

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Viewing Oracle Database Storage with Dell Storage Plug-in and Oracle Enterprise Manager	April 2015	Video
Using Dell Storage Plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager	January 2015	Best Practices
Accelerating OLTP Applications with Fluid Cache	January 2015	Best Practices
Deploying Oracle over dNFS with the Dell Compellent FS8600 Scale-out File System	October 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent All Flash Arrays and Oracle Database Warehouse Best Practices and Sizing Guide	October 2014	Best Practices
Best Practices for using the Dell Storage Center with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Solaris	July 2014	Best Practices
Running Oracle over NFS with the Dell Compellent FS8600 Scale-out File System	May 2014	Best Practices
Dell Storage Center and Oracle12c Best Practices	May 2015	Best Practices
Accelerating Oracle OLTP with Compellent Flash Optimized Array	November 2013	Reference Architecture
Dell Compellent - Oracle - Data Progression and Thin Provisioning	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent - Oracle 11g RAC and Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent - Oracle ASM Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent - Oracle Backup and Recovery Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Storage Center and Oracle Best Practices	May 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent - Oracle DataWarehouse Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent - Oracle DR with Remote Replication	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent - Oracle Extended Distance Clusters	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent - Oracle OCFS2	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent OracleVM OVM Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Migrating Oracle to Dell Compellent Storage Center Solution Guide	October 2013	Technical Report
Compellent and Oracle RMAN Backup/Recovery and Clone Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Oracle RAC/RMAN with Storage Center Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Oracle Demo - RAC Clone with Storage Center	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Oracle Demo - Extended Distance Cluster with Storage Center	January 2014	Video

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SQL Server

Title	Published/Updated	Type
AcceleratingSQLServer2014OLTPWorkloadsonHyper-VwithSC4020andFXConvergedArchitecture	August2015	TechnicalWhitePaper
Using Replay Manager with Microsoft SQL Server	June 2015	Video
55TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 using PowerEdge R730 and Dell Storage SC4020	March 2015	Reference Architecture
HA/DR for SQL Server Using Compellent Tools	November 2013	Solutions Guide
High Performance SQL Server with Storage Center All Flash Array	November 2013	Reference Architecture
Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices with Dell Compellent Storage Center	July 2014	Best Practices
Microsoft SQL Server on SMB Feature Brief	November 2013	Technical Report
SQL Server Backups vs. Compellent Storage Center Replays - A Comparison	November 2013	Solutions Guide
SQL Server Disaster Recovery with Synchronous Replication	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Virtualized Microsoft SQL Server with VMware SRM for Recovery	October 2013	Technical Report
Dell Compellent SQL Server System Database Recovery Using Replay Manager 6.5	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Recovering SQL Server Databases Using the Fast Recovery Method in Replay Manager 6.5	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent SQL Server Database Recovery with Transaction Log Backups Using Replay Manager 6.5	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Database Recovery in a SQL Server Cluster Using Replay Manager 6.5	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Manual SQL Server Database Recovery with Replay Manager 6.5	January 2014	Video
Top 5 Compellent Tricks for SQL Server	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Bare Metal Recovery for SQL Server	January 2014	Video

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SharePoint

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Deploying SharePoint 2013 Utilizing Compellent Storage Center	June 2014	Best Practices

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Storage Center (General)

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and Dell SC Series Storage using a Linux Host	July 2015	Best Practices
Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and Dell SC Series Storage using an ESXi Host	April 2015	Best Practices
Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and Dell SC Series Storage using a Windows Host	April 2015	Best Practices
Best Practices for Sharing an iSCSI SAN Infrastructure with Dell PS Series and Dell SC Series Storage using Dedicated Hosts	January 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent SNMP Overview	July 2014	White Paper
Best Practices for Securing Dell Compellent Storage Center	April 2015	Best Practices
Best Practices for Configuring an FCoE Infrastructure with Dell Compellent and Cisco Nexus	June 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.5.10 Data Compression Feature Brief	October 2014	Feature Brief
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.5 SED Reference Architecture and Best Practices	December 2014	Reference Architecture
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.5 Multi-VLAN Feature Brief	May 2014	Feature Brief
Dell Compellent Storage Center Thin Import Demo Video	January 2014	Video

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Virtualization

Title	Published/Updated	Type
VMware Horizon View 6 VDI with Dell SC8000 All-Flash Arrays for 4,000 Persistent Desktop Users	April 2015	Reference Architecture
Dell Storage Center Best Practices with VMware vSphere 6.x	April 2015	Best Practices
Dell SC Series Best Practices with VMware Site Recovery Manager	March 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent SRM 5.8 Demo	January 2015	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center vSphere Client Plug-in 1.5 Video Demo	June 2014	Video
Citrix XenDesktop with Dell Compellent SC4020 All-Flash Arrays for 1,800 Persistent Desktop Users	August 2014	Reference Architecture
Citrix XenDesktop VDI with Dell Compellent SC8000 All-Flash Arrays for 3,000 Persistent Desktop Users	August 2014	Reference Architecture
Citrix XenDesktop with Provisioning Server for VDI (3,000 desktops) on Dell Compellent All Flash Array	January 2014	Reference Architecture
Dell Compellent Best Practices for Microsoft SCVMM 2012 R2 and SMI-S	January 2014	Best Practices
Citrix XenServer 6.x Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	October 2013	Best Practices
Compellent Best Practices with vCloud Director	November 2013	Best Practices
Compellent Best Practices with VMware ESX 4.x	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5.x	April 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent SMI-S Best Practices for Microsoft SCVMM 2012	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Microsoft System Center VMM 2012 SP1 Best Practices Guide	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Replay Manager 7 and Microsoft Hyper-V Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN & Citrix XenDesktop 1000 Desktop Reference Architecture	November 2013	Reference Architecture
DELL Compellent VMware View 5.0 Reference Architecture	November 2013	Reference Architecture
High Availability and Disaster Recovery with VMware vSphere Solutions Guide	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Hyper-V 2012 R2 Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	October 2013	Best Practices
Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Best Practices for Microsoft SCVMM 2012	November 2013	Best Practices
Storage Center (SC8000) 1000 Desktop VMware View 5 Reference Architecture	November 2013	Reference Architecture
Storage Center and VMware Data Recovery Integration	November 2013	Solutions Guide
VMware VAAI Lab Validation	November 2013	Solutions Guide
VMware View 1000 Desktop Reference Architecture	November 2013	Reference Architecture
VMware vSphere VMFS-3 to VMFS-5 Upgrade Guide	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Dell Compellent Solution Pack for vCenter Operations Manager	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center 6.x and VAAI Copy Offload Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.5.3 and VAAI Block Zero Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Integration With VMware VASA	January 2014	Video
Replay Manager 7 Integration with vSphere	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center vSphere Web Client Plug-in 2.0 Demo	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Virtual Fiber Channel for Hyper-V 2012 Demo Video	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Enterprise Manager DR Plan for Hyper-V Demo Video	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Replay Manager 7 and Microsoft Hyper-V Demo Video	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Storage Center Microsoft System Center VMM 2012 SP1 SMIS and Rapid Provisioning Demo Video	January 2014	Video
Dell Compellent Replay Manager 6.0 with Hyper-V Demo	January 2014	Video

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Windows Server

Title	Published/Updated	Type
Dell Storage Center: Microsoft Multipath I/O Best Practices	July 2015	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices	April 2014	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Active Directory Integration Best Practices	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center and Boot from SAN with FCoE Best Practices Guide V1a	November 2013	Best Practices
Dell Compellent Storage Center Windows Server 2012 Best Practices	May 2014	Best Practices
Extending a Windows Server 2008 Boot Volume on Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
How To Setup a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Failover Cluster with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
How To Setup a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
How To Setup a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Moving Resources Between Failover Clusters with Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
NTFS Fragmentation and Virtualized Storage	November 2013	Solutions Guide
SCOM 2012 with Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 2.0	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Using Microsoft BitLocker Drive Encryption on Dell Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Windows Disk Alignment and Compellent Storage Center	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Windows Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Dell Compellent Storage Center	October 2013	Technical Report
Windows Firewall Rule Needed To Enable Share Provisioning in a Windows Failover Cluster on Windows Storage Server 2008	November 2013	Solutions Guide
Windows Server 2012 R2 Best Practices for Dell Compellent Storage Center	May 2014	Best Practices
Windows Server ODX Solutions Guide for Dell Compellent Storage Center	October 2013	Technical Report

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