Reference Architecture

Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V:

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3 Solution Overview

This section provides a high-level product overview of the major components of the Active System 800

as illustrated in Figure 1. Readers can skip the sections of products with which they are familiar.

Figure 1: Overview of Dell Blade Servers, Dell Force10 network switches, Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Series

Storage, and Software

Table 1 below describes the key solution components and the roles served.

Management Cluster – Dell PowerEdge R620

· CPU: 2x Intel® Xeon 2.2GHz 95W 8C

· Memory: 128 GB (16x8GB) 1333 MHz RDIMMs

· NDC: BCM 5720 (4x 1GbE RJ-45)

· NIC: BCM 57810 PCI-e (2x 10GbE SFP+)

· iDRAC: iDRAC7 Enterprise

Dell Force10 S55 44x 1GbE + 4x SFP Ports

· 10/100/1000MbE Out of Band (OOB) Mgmt Traffic

Dell Force10 S4810 48x 10GbE + 4x 40GbE Ports

· 2x S4810 High-density 48 port 10GbE switches for

converged LAN and SAN traffic

· 80GbE ISL between the switches

Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Series iSCSI Storage

· 10GbE Controllers with up to 8 Arrays

· Default Solution

1x PS6100X per 4x hosts

with (24) 2.5" 900GB 10k

Management Components

· Dell Active System Manager – Hardware

provisioning and management

· Dell EqualLogic SAN-HQ – SAN monitoring

· Dell OpenManage Essentials – Hardware

monitoring

· Optional System Center Virtual Machine Manager

– Hypervisor and VM management

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

· Failover Clustering (High Availability and Live

Migration)

· Hyper-V Role Enabled

· Hyper-V and Cluster Management tools

Compute Cluster - Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers

· Energy efficient Dell PowerEdge M1000e enclosure

· Up to 32 Dell PowerEdge M620 blade servers

· CPU: 2x Intel® Xeon® 2.2GHz 95W 8C

· Memory: 128 GB (16x8GB) 1333 MHz RDIMMs

· NDC: BCM 57810-k (2x10GbE 10GBASE-KR)

· PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator

· IDRAC7 Enterprise