Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 - Hyper-V on Dell PowerEdge VRTX Deployment Guide
- Abbreviations
- Audience
- Scope
- Overview
- Solution requirements
- Hyper-V on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis— deployment workflow
- Configuring components
- Configuring solution for virtualization – Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
- Installing virtualization infrastructure
- Configuring virtual disk for OS deployment in Dell PowerEdge M630 servers
- Configuring prerequisites to install Windows Server
- Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system in the Dell PowerEdge VRTX
- Enabling Hyper-V and multipath features in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Setting up NIC teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Configuring network in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Sample naming and IP addressing scheme
- Configuring vEthernet switch in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Adding the Dell PowerEdge VRTX servers to the domain
- Assigning virtual disks
- Installing the shared PERC driver
- Adding MPIO settings in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Configuring registry
- Adding volumes in the Dell PowerEdge M630 servers
- Enabling failover clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2
- Creating cluster
- Verifying the deployment
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
Figure 2. Network architecture for VRTX Hyper-V deployment
In the preceding design, each of the Dell Blade server LOMs (LAN On Motherboard) directly maps to
Fabric A. The mezzanine cards on slot B and slot C are not used for the traditional I/O expansion. Instead,
they are used for connecting to the PCIe infrastructure. The PowerEdge VRTX chassis is designed to use
PCIe slots through two PCIe switches–one for Fabric B and one for Fabric C. Each PCIe switch ties into
one of the two mezzanine cards on the server nodes to provide connectivity to the PCIe slot as
mentioned in Table 6.
NOTE: The mezzanine cards on the slots B and C are not used for network traffic in this reference
architecture. However, the mezzanine cards are required for connectivity to SPERC.
Table 6. PCIe switch mappings
PCIe switch PCIe slot connectivity Mezzanine slot
Fabric B PCIe
Switch
PCIe slot 3, PCIe slot 6, PCIe slot 7, PCIe slot 8
and a Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller
(SPERC)
Mezz B
Fabric C PCIe
Switch
PCIe slot 1, PCIe slot 2, PCIe slot 4, PCIe slot 5 Mezz C
The SPERC is mapped to the server blades in the VRTX chassis through Fabrics B and C PCIe switches.
These PCIe switches are mapped to the server blades by using the mezzanine cards B and C.
The following figure illustrates how the fabrics are connected in the PowerEdge M630 server and the
utilization of the I/O modules.
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