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Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 4.5
on VMware vSphere 4.1 with Dell EqualLogic Storage
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vCenter Performance Monitor
Performance monitoring and capture at the ESX host
ESXTOP
Performance monitoring and capture at the ESX host
Table 1: Test Components
The PowerConnect M6348 switch modules and the PowerConnect 6224 top-of-rack switches were
dedicated to the iSCSI SAN. The PowerConnect M6220 switch modules were dedicated to the server
LAN. Figure 3 shows the overall topology and the connection paths used by each M610 blade servers
(only one server is shown).
Figure 3: Server LAN and iSCSI SAN Diagram