Deployment Guide

Table 8. Network Switch Congurations
Switch Conguration Description
Single switch In this conguration, ports have been reserved to address the
maximum conguration for all of the hardware.
Dual switch This conguration has reserved ports as well, but they are spread
between a VLT switch conguration.
Table 9. Network Switch Specications
Component Conguration
Switch model Dell Networking S4048-ON (Open Networking)
Number of switches 1 or 2 S4048-ON switches
Backup server nodes (optional)
In the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, it is important to protect all of the infrastructure VMs and the tenant VMs. The Dell Hybrid
Cloud System for Microsoft uses Microsoft Data Protection Manager (MS DPM) for that protection, with the option to provide additional
protection through osite backup from MS DPM to Microsoft Azure.
Out of the box, the MS DPM solution for the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft provides protection for the management cluster and
tenant virtual machines. You can back up to the 1-3 servers or to the Azure cloud.
The hardware building block used for the backup server is the Dell PowerEdge R730xd.
The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is an exceptionally exible and scalable, two-socket 2U rack server that delivers high-performance processing
and a broad range of workload-optimized local storage possibilities, including hybrid tiering.
Designed with an incredible range of congurability, the PowerEdge R730xd meets the needs of many dierent workloads. It includes the
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family, 24 DIMMs of high-performance DDR4 memory and a broad range of local storage options.
The R730xd server conguration used as the backup server in the solution consists of up to 16 x 3.5” internal drives for data and 2 x 2.5”
drive for the operating system. Details for this conguration are listed in the Backup Server Host Specications table.
Figure 12. R730xd Server
Table 10. Backup Server Host
Specications
Component Conguration
Backup server (backup host)
Up to 3 x PE-R730XD
12 + 4 Internal, 3.5" hard drives and 2, 2.5" ex bay hard drives
CPU E5-2630 v4 (2.4 Ghz, 8C) 85W
Memory 128GB (8 x 16 GB RDIMM, 2400Mhz, x8)
Internal Storage
Flex Bay:
2 x 600 GB 10K 2.5in SAS HDD (boot)
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