Dell EqualLogic FS7500- Manuals

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 5 Figure 1. WMware I/O stacks In a SAN, when the VMware hypervisor is using the block-based FC, FCoE, or iSCSI protocol, it creates a VMFS file system on a storage volume (shown as VMFS Volume in Figure 1) to organize...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 6 As storage I/O requests are received, the hypervisor either leverages the storage subsystem drivers or the network subsystem drivers to establish and maintain a connection to the datastore. In the case of block-base...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 7 Figure 2. Unified Scale-out Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Storage System With the FS7500, you can scale both capacity and performance easily online; controllers and arrays are automatically discovered and added to the reso...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 8 Finally, through the use of VMware’s Storage vMotion, the FS7500 enables administrators to leverage multiple storage tiers for each virtual machine depending upon the application needs. While some storage may remain...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 9 Together these metrics can be used to quantify performance at the application level. Both of these performance metrics are related to each other. When the storage system reaches its performance limits, the transacti...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 10 Figure 3. Multiple Virtual Workloads in a VMware environment on Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Test Hardware Configurations The test hardware configuration consisted of two ESXi servers with 128GB of RAM, quad-socket, 12-c...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 11 Test Network Configuration The network configuration consisted of two dedicated Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet switches. The iSCSI and NFS traffic was isolated and differentiated from the VM traffic throug...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 12 Virtual Workload Description To ensure that we simulated a real life situation for our performance measurement, we chose to run a virtual workload mix based on a set of typical datacenter workloads including busine...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 13 Table 1. Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS Workload Name Application Workload Config. Virtual Machine Platform Virtual Machine Configurat...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 14 Figure 5. Performance of Multiple Virtual Workloads in VMware using FS7500 over NFS Conclusion Most organizations cannot accurately estimate their workload growth, especially in a virtualized environment. With mult...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 15 Appendix A Test System Components The hardware configuration used in the testing process is outlined below: Hostname Mgmt IP Version CPUs RAM ESX01 192.168.100. 5 VMware ESXi Installable 4.1.0 348481 (update 1) Qua...

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Page 16 There were 8 1 Gbit NICs in each ESXi host server as outlined below: VMNIC vSwitch Subnet(s) MTU Purpose Upstream Port type Upstream Connection vmnic0 vSwitch0 192.168.100.0/2 4 192.168.101.0/24 1500 Management, Cl...