Reference Architecture

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Table 1 below describes the key solution components and the roles served.
Table 1: Solution Components
Component
Details
Hypervisor Server
 Up to 2x Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis with up to 32x
Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and embedded
VMware vSphere 5.1
Converged Fabric Switch
 2xDell Force10 S4810
 2x Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator in each Dell
PowerEdge M1000e chassis
Storage
 Up to 8x Dell EqualLogic PS6110 series arrays
Management Infrastructure
 2x Dell PowerEdge R620 servers with embedded VMware
vSphere 5.1 hosting management VMs.
 1x Dell Force10 S55 used as a 1Gb out-of-band
management switch
Management components
hosted in the management
infrastructure
 Dell Active System Manager
 VMware vCenter Server
 Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
 Dell OpenManage Essentials
 Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) for VMware
 Dell EqualLogic SAN HeadQuarters (HQ)
 VMware vCloud Connector
 Dell Repository Manager
3.1 VMware vSphere 5.1
VMware vSphere 5.1 includes the ESXi™ hypervisor as well as vCenter™ Server which is used to
configure and manage VMware hosts. Key capabilities for the ESXi Enterprise Plus license level include:
 VMware vMotion™: VMware vMotion technology provides real-time migration of running virtual
machines (VM) from one host to another with no disruption or downtime.
 VMware High Availability (HA): VMware HA provides high availability at the virtual machine
(VM) level. Upon host failure, VMware HA automatically re-starts VMs on other physical hosts
running ESXi. VMware vSphere 5.1 uses Fault Domain Manager (FDM) for High Availability.
 VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
(DPM): VMware DRS technology enables vMotion to automatically achieve load balancing
according to resource requirements. When VMs in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as
during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer hosts and powers off the
rest to reduce power consumption.