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Figure 3 Functional system design diagram
4.2 Physical system configuration
The physical components of the test infrastructure were laid out as shown in Figure 4.
In order to provide more flexibility and datacenter density, we deployed this solution on Dell Blade
servers. Some key elements of the physical deployment were:
• Single M1000E Blade enclosure containing the entire Exchange and testing infrastructure,
utilizing four Blade servers (2 full slots and 2 half slots)
• Dual PowerConnect M6220 Ethernet switches to support regular IP traffic
• Dual PowerConnect 6248 and dual M6348 Ethernet switches to support the iSCSI data storage
traffic
• Single EqualLogic iSCSI SAN provisioned with 4x PS6000XV arrays providing aggregate raw
capacity of 26.8 TB (4x 16 disks, 450GB nominal each).