Reference Architecture

Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V:
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Traffic Type
Use
Management Node
Hypervisor
Supports virtualization management traffic and communication between the
management servers in the cluster.
Management Cluster
Supports private cluster traffic for the management clusters.
Management Live
Migration
Supports migration of VMs between the management servers in the cluster.
Management Tenant
VM
Supports the virtual machine traffic for the management virtual machines.
Guest Clustering
Supports the private cluster communication required for SQL Clustering.
Table 3: Sample VLAN and subnet configuration
Traffic Type
Sample VLAN
Sample Subnet
Out-of-Band Management
24
10.110.4.0/24
Compute Node Management
20
10.110.0.0/24
Compute Live Migration
21
10.110.1.0/24
Compute Cluster Private
22
10.110.2.0/24
Management Tenant VM
23
10.110.3.0/24
iSCSI
25
10.110.5.0/24
Management Hypervisor
26
10.110.6.0/24
Management Cluster LM
27
10.110.7.0/24
Management Cluster Private
28
10.110.8.0/24
Guest Clustering (Microsoft FastTrack)
30
10.110.10.0/24
Tenant VM
32
10.110.12.0/22
6.3 Server / Blade Storage Connectivity
In the Dell Active System configuration, each PowerEdge M620 and R620 server uses an internal Dell
PERC H710 RAID controller and is connected to two SAS HDDs configured in a RAID-1. This RAID volume
hosts Windows Server 2012 for the hypervisor operating system.
Each server also includes Broadcom BCM 57810 Converged Network Adapter for attaching to SAN
volumes.
6.4 Server / Blade HA and Redundancy
The PowerEdge M620 blade chassis enclosure M1000e is designed with redundant power supplies and
redundant fans. Each PowerEdge M620 uses a Dell PERC H710 RAID controller and two hard drives
configured in a RAID-1, which hosts the parent operating system.