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· Sufficient power and cooling to support the solution must be present. Detailed power, weight,
and cooling requirements for the datacenter are defined in the vStart 1000m for Enterprise
Virtualization using Hyper-V Solution Specification.
6 Architecture
This solution consists of a Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis populated with PowerEdge M620 blade
servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1Data Center Edition. Figure 3 below depicts the high-level
reference architecture for the solution including solution components and redundant connectivity for
each I/O fabric.
Figure 3: Network Topology (Logical View) with optional 2nd Chassis
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Workload Virtual Machines
Management Virtual Machines
Force10 S4810
(8, 16, 24 or 32) x PowerEdge M620
in Up to 2 PowerEdge M1000e
PowerConnect
10GbE Pass-Thru
2 per M1000e
Dell 8|4
Module
2 per
M1000e
(2) x PowerEdge R620
Brocade 5100
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Force10 S55
Compellent 2.5" and 3.5" Drive Enclosures
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