Page 3 - Table of Contents
Page 1 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2 3 Audience and Scope ................................................................................................. 2 4 Overview ...................
Page 4 - Introduction; Audience and Scope; Overview
Page 2 2 Introduction Business-Ready Configurations for Virtualization are a family of reference architectures offered by Dell and designed to aid with the ordering, deployment, and maintenance of a virtualization infrastructure. These architectures are designed to meet specific customer needs throu...
Page 5 - Dell PowerEdge R510 Server
Page 3 There are three reference architectures discussed in this refernece architecture: Consolidation an entry level configuration, a High Availability configuration and a High Availability + Backup configuration. A high-level overview of the hardware included in each configuration is presented in ...
Page 6 - Dell PowerConnect 5424 series Switch
Page 4 The R510 is available in three different chassis configurations, a four hard drive chassis, an eight hard drive chassis, and a twelve hard drive chassis. In the eight hard drive chassis option, the PowerEdge R510 provides up to 8TB of internal storage. The R510 server has one dual-port Broadc...
Page 7 - PowerVault DL2100 Backup Solution
Page 5 PowerConnect 5400 series supports VLANs and up to eight Gigabit ports can be combined into a Link Aggregate Group (LAG), providing an aggregated bandwidth of 8 Gbps. 4.4 PowerVault DL2100 Backup Solution The Dell PowerVault DL2100 Backup to Disk Appliance is an integrated solution of hardware...
Page 8 - Specification
Page 6 in the cluster. Using CSV, multiple nodes can read and write to the volume irrespective of which server node owns the volume. • Management using Dell OEM Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Solution o Provides a unified Solution with a single console for managing physical and virtual envi...
Page 10 - Reference Architecture Diagram; Design Principles
Page 8 Storage Capacity None 9.6 TB per device 9.6 TB per device Infrastructure and Management Server Rack Server Model None (1) R410 (2) R410 Processor None (2) x Intel Xeon (Nehalem) E5520, 2.26Ghz, 8M Cache (2) x Intel Xeon (Nehalem) E5520, 2.26Ghz, 8M Cache Memory None 8 GB 8 GB Network Controll...
Page 11 - Consolidation Solution
Page 9 3. Isolated and redundant network architectures: The network configuration used in the reference architecture provides isolation for different networks in the virtual infrastructure and avoids a single point of failure. 4. Virtualization Management Capabilities suited for SMB: Management of t...
Page 12 - High Availability + Backup Solution
Page 10 Figure 1: Reference Architecture diagram for the High Availability Solution 6.4 High Availability + Backup Solution The reference architecture diagram for the High Availability + Backup configuration is as shown in Figure 2 below. The solution consists of four PowerEdge R510 servers running ...
Page 13 - Network Architecture
Page 11 Figure 2: Reference architecture for High Availability + Backup Solution 7 Network Architecture The Hyper-V R2 virtual infrastructure is comprised of six network traffic types: the virtual machine network traffic, cluster public network traffic, cluster private network traffic, network traff...
Page 15 - Different types of network traffic
Page 13 Figure 4: Single server network connection in High Availability + Back up Configuration 7.1 Different types of network traffic Following Microsoft Best Practices, network traffic is broken down into separate networks, and each network types is isolated using VLANs. As mentioned previously th...
Page 17 - iSCSI SAN Architecture; Configuring EqualLogic PS4000 Array; Storage Connectivity
Page 15 network teams are connected to different switches to avoid a single point of failure. NICs for the private /CSV networks are connected to the switch ports configured for VLAN 30 and the NIC for live migration is connected to switch port configured for VLAN 50. The following section discusses...
Page 18 - Management; Systems Management
Page 16 highlighted; however, for more information see the Dell EqualLogic PS Quick Start Guide at
Page 24 - PowerConnect 5424 Switch Configuration File for iSCSI network:
Page 22 PowerConnect 5424 Configuration File for Public, Virtual Network, Live Migration, Private and CSV: interface port-channel 1 switchport mode trunk exit vlan database vlan 20,30,50 exit interface range ethernet g(3-10) switchport access vlan 20 exit interface port-channel 1 switchport trunk al...