Dell PowerVault 3000i- Manuals

September 2007 Page 5 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 3 The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i The PowerVault MD3000i Modular Disk Storage Array (shown in Figure 1) is a SAS–based disk array with one or two embedded iSCSI controllers. The redundant controllers are seen in the PowerVault MD3000i rea...

September 2007 Page 9 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 4 The Servers and their Workloads In this section the five separate servers whose data was consolidated on the PowerVault MD3000i will be described, along with the Exchange backup used. Exchange 2007 Exchange Server 2007 cluster continu...

September 2007 Page 10 Dell Enterprise Technology Center The backend SQL Server database used for the web serving application also used the Large version of the DVD Store. The data and log LUNs (labeled “SQLW” in Table 2) were of the same type as the SQL Server test (two 4-disk RAID 5 Data LUNs and ...

September 2007 Page 11 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 5 The Storage Consolidation Simulation The lab setup used in the 8-hour simulation is shown in Figure 6. The servers, including the four PowerEdge 1955 blades running Exchange active and passive nodes, web serving and SQL Server, and t...

September 2007 Page 14 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 6 Conclusions The PowerVault MD3000i is a cost effective, simple to manage iSCSI storage array that can be used to consolidate the storage of several servers, providing higher storage utilization, integrated snapshots and a single mana...