Reference Architecture

Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V:
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Each Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server is configured with a Broadcom BCM57810 bNDC providing two
10GbE ports. These ports are connected to the Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator in Fabric A. The
corresponding ports on A1 and A2 modules are connected with the two Dell Force10 S4810 switches
outside the blade chassis enclosure. Meanwhile, each PowerEdge R620 rack server is configured with a
Broadcom BCM57810 add-in NIC providing two 10Gb SPF+ ports, which are connected with the two
Force10 S4810 switches. The two Force10 S4810 switches are configured with a Virtual Line Trunk (VLT)
using two 40 Gbps QSFP+ ports in each switch providing an 80Gbps path for communication across the
switches. The solution network architecture is illustrated in Figure 4 below.
Figure 4: Converged Fabric Overview
Figure 5 illustrates the converged network configuration and DCB settings for the PowerEdge M620
blade server. Figure 6 illustrates the configuration for the PowerEdge R620 management servers.
The VLAN IDs are assigned to the virtual network adapters assigned to the parent partition to segregate
the traffic on the host between the cluster, Live Migration, parent management, and other types of
traffic that are described in Table 2 below. The VLAN configuration used in the Dell Active System
configuration is listed in Table 3.
iDRAC
PowerEdge
R620
10G SFP+
10G SFP+
Broadcom
NIC
10G SFP+
10G SFP+
Broadcom
NIC
M1000e Chassis
Blade - 1
PowerEdge M620
Blade Server
Blade - 16
iSCSI SAN
CMC-1CMC-2
PowerEdge M620
Blade Server
Fab A
Broadcom
57810
Fab A
Broadcom
57810
80Gb VLT
Interconnect
iDRAC
10G SFP+
10G SFP+
Broadcom
NIC
PowerEdge
R620
Management Cluster
Equalogic PS6110
Core Network
Blade 2-16 replicate the
connectivity of Blade-1
Equalogic PS6110
Equalogic PS6110
Equalogic PS6110
Equalogic PS6110
FAB A1
Dell
PowerEdge M
I/O
Aggregator
FAB A2
Dell
PowerEdge M
I/O
Aggregator
The second R620 replicates this connectivity.
Dell Force10 S55
80 Gb
VLT PEER LAG
80 Gb
VLT PEER LAG
80 Gb
VLT PEER LAG
2 Gb
VLT PEER LAG
Dell Force10 S4810
Dell Force10 S4810
The second M1000e
replicates this connectivity.
Up to 8 Arrays
LAN & iSCSI SAN
Management
Management Uplink