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vStart 50 Solution Overview
Dell Inc. ii
Table of Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1
2 Audience............................................................................................................... 1
3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................... 2
3.1 Storage Expansion Options .................................................................................. 3
3.2 Product Overview ............................................................................................. 4
4 Delivery Model ........................................................................................................ 6
5 Design Principles and Solution Capabilities ..................................................................... 7
5.1 No Single Point of Failure .................................................................................... 7
5.2 Physical Separation of LAN and iSCSI SAN Traffic ....................................................... 7
5.3 Logical Separation of multiple LAN traffic types ........................................................ 7
5.4 Prerequisites and Datacenter Planning .................................................................... 7
5.5 Hyper-V Features .............................................................................................. 8
6 Management Capabilities ........................................................................................... 9
6.1 Performance Monitoring ................................................................................... 11
6.2 Storage Management ....................................................................................... 11
6.3 Out-of-band management ................................................................................. 12
7 Power, Cooling, and Weight Requirements ................................................................... 12
Tables
Table 1. Component Logical Groups ............................................................................... 3
Table 2. vStart 50 Storage Expansion Options ................................................................... 3
Table 3. Customer Infrastructure and vStart Solution .......................................................... 8
Table 4. vStart 50 Power, Cooling, and Weight Requirements .............................................. 12
Figures
Figure 1. vStart 50 Configuration Overview ....................................................................... 2
Figure 2. vStart 50 Racked Configuration .......................................................................... 6
Figure 3. Server Manager ........................................................................................... 10
Figure 4. EqualLogic Group Manager ............................................................................. 11