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17 65TB Data Warehouse Fast Track Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 using Dell EMC
PowerEdge R640 and Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 | 3918-RA-SQL
Table 5 shows the volume labels and access paths used for the reference configuration.
Windows volume details
ME4 Series volume name
Windows volume label
Access path
MPHost
MPHost
M:\
SQLSystem
SQLSystem
M:\ft\SQLSystem
SQLLog
SQLLog
M:\ft\SQLLog
SQLData01
SQLData01
M:\ft\SQLData01
SQLData02
SQLData02
M:\ft\SQLData02
SQLData03
SQLData03
M:\ft\SQLData03
SQLData04
SQLData04
M:\ft\SQLData04
SQLData05
SQLData05
M:\ft\SQLData05
SQLData06
SQLData06
M:\ft\SQLData06
SQLData07
SQLData06
M:\ft\SQLData07
SQLData08
SQLData08
M:\ft\SQLData08
SQLTempdb01
SQLTempdb01
M:\ft\SQLTempdb01
SQLTempdb02
SQLTempdb02
M:\ft\SQLTempdb02
6.4 MPIO
The MPIO policy for all volumes was left at the default setting. Since the ME4 Series supports Asymmetric
Logical Unit Access (ALUA), the default MPIO setting is Round Robin with Subset.