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A Principled Technologies test report 18
Comparing performance and cost: Dell PowerEdge VRTX vs.
legacy hardware solution
g. In the VLAN list box, click 1, and click Remove.
h. In the VLAN list box, enter 1000 and click Add.
i. Click Apply.
j. Select the External Port radio button.
k. After the screen populates, use the drop-down menu to select the port used to connect to the external
testing switch.
l. In VLAN list, click 1, and click Remove.
m. In the VLAN list box, enter 1000 and click Add.
n. Click Apply.
13. Click the floppy drive icon in upper-right portion of the configuration pane to save all new settings to the
start-up configuration.
14. Click Log out.
15. Click OK.
Configuring the VRTX shared storage
1. Open a Web browser, and enter the address listed for the CMC IP on the front LCD display.
2. Log in with the appropriate credentials.
3. Expand Storage.
4. Click Storage.
5. Click the Setup tab.
a. Under Assignment Mode, select the Multiple Assignment radio button, and click Apply.
b. To confirm the Operation Successful message box, click OK.
6. Configure virtual disks:
a. Click StorageVirtual Disks.
b. On the Virtual Disks tab, click Create.
i. For Choose a virtual disk type, select RAID 10.
ii. Select all available disks (14 drives for the RAID 10).
iii. For the first volume (to be used for Microsoft Exchange), enter 1.1TB and click Create Virtual
Disk.
iv. To confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful, click OK.
v. Repeat steps i through iv for the next external volume (to be used for Microsoft SQL Server),
choosing 120GB.
vi. Repeat steps i through iv for the next external volume (to be used for Iometer), choosing
100GB.
c. On the Virtual Disks tab, click Manage.
i. Select the Virtual Disks Action drop-down menu for Virtual Disk 0, and initialize the drives.
ii. Click Apply.
iii. To confirm the message box indicating Operation Successful, click OK.
iv. Repeat steps i through iii for the remaining virtual disks.
d. Configure the remaining physical disk as a global hot spare.
e. Allow shared LUN access to both compute nodes. On the Virtual Disks tab, click Assign.
i. Use the drop-down menu for all virtual disks and SLOT-01, and select Full Access.