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Figure 9: vStart SAN Connectivity Overview
6.6.4 Performance
Dell Compellent Series 40, with the dual-controller configuration, 8 Gb Fibre Channel interconnects
provides high bandwidth for data flows. This bandwidth is complemented with a large variety of drives
in multiple speeds and sizes. The Compellent Series 40 also uses virtual port IQNs and WWNs, thereby
enabling higher throughput and fault tolerance.
Aggregation / Core
Network Layer
Dell M1000e & PowerEdge M620
PowerEdge M1000e
9 10
1 2
11 12
3 4
13 14
5 6
15 16
7 8
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
Hyper-V Compute Clusters
Legend
Ethernet LAN
8Gb Fibre Channel SAN
PowerEdge
R620
Hyper-V Management Clusters
Brocade
5100
SAN Top of Rack Switch
Dell 8|4
Module
0
23 22 21 20 19 18 17
8Gbps FC
Brocade M5424
0
23 22 21 20 19 18 17
8Gbps FC
Brocade M5424
SAN IO Modules
PowerConnect
10GbE
Pass-thru
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
10 11 12
9
13 14 15 16
10Gb Ethernet Pa ss Through
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
10 11 12
9
13 14 15 16
10Gb Ethernet Pa ss Through
LAN IO Modules
Force 10
S4810
SYS PSU MASTER FAN
S4810P
0
1
102 4 6 8 12 2214 16 18 20 24 3426 28 30 32 36 4638 40 42 44 48 56
6052
LNK ACT
Ethernet
QSFP+
SFP+
RS-232
SYS PSU MASTER FAN
S4810P
0
1
102 4 6 8 12 2214 16 18 20 24 3426 28 30 32 36 4638 40 42 44 48 56
6052
LNK ACT
Ethernet
QSFP+
SFP+
RS-232
iSCSI Traffic
SAN
Network
Compellent Series 40 Storage Center
Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN