Take advantage of vendor cookbooks

From Wikibon

HP's CFT initiatives and those like it represent some of the best customer freebies in the business. Based on real world, customer-initiated implementations, these best practice guidelines can save substantial time and money and help users avoid critical mistakes. Storage executives managing projects should ask technical staff three questions: 1) Are such best practices available and have you read them, 2) are they being followed, and 3) where and why do you differ?