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6 Dell EMC SC Series: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Best Practices | CML1031
Executive summary
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
(RHEL) is an extremely robust and scalable enterprise-class operating system.
Correctly configured using the best practices presented in this paper, RHEL provides an optimized experience
for use with the Dell EMC
™
SC Series storage. These best practices include guidelines for configuring volume
discovery, multipath, file system, and queue depth management.
This paper presents RHEL versions 6.x to 8.x with the Dell™ Storage Center Operating System (SCOS)
version 7.x.x. There are various methods for accomplishing the described tasks, and this paper provides a
starting point for end users and system administrators.
This paper focuses on using bash shell commands and scripts wherever possible on the command line
interface (CLI) because it is the most universally applicable across UNIX
®
and Linux distributions.