Reference Architecture

Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V:
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Figure 6: Converged Network Configuration for Management of Dell PowerEdge R620 Servers
Table 2: Traffic Description
Traffic Type
Use
Compute Node
Hypervisor
Supports virtualization management traffic and communication between the
host servers in the cluster.
Compute Live
Migration
Supports migration of VMs between the host servers in the cluster.
Tenant VM
Supports communication between the VMs hosted on the cluster and external
systems.
Compute Cluster
Supports internal cluster network communication between the servers in the
cluster.
Out-of-Band
Management
Supports configuration and monitoring of the servers through the iDRAC
management interface, storage arrays, and network switches.
iSCSI Data
Supports iSCSI traffic between the servers and storage array(s). In addition,
traffic between the arrays is supported.
VMn
VM2
VM1
Add in CNA
Broadcom
57810 DP 10Gb
1
Single
Function
IOE Enabled
0
Single
Function
IOE Enabled
iSCSI
0
iSCSI
1
ETS 50% LAN
ETS 50% SAN + PFC
DCB
ETS 50% LAN
ETS 50% SAN + PFC
Force10 S4810
10GbE w/ DCB
Force10 S4810
10GbE w/ DCB
ConvergedNet Team
(Switch Independent -
Hyper-V Port Load Balancing)
EQL Storage
with MPIO
NDIS
0
NDIS
1
Management
BW Weight 5
Cluster / CSV
BW Weight 40
Live
Migration
BW Weight 20