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Figure 4 Physical system configuration diagram
More details of the test configuration setup (software, storage, hypervisor, virtual machines and
network) are provided in Appendix A
, as well as a detailed schematic diagram showing the various
network connection paths across the blade chassis switch fabrics.
4.3 Storage layout
The EqualLogic SAN arrays and the volumes underlying the Exchange databases were setup as follows:
• One EqualLogic group configured with four PS6000XV members
• Two Storage pools defined within the group (one pool for each Exchange Mailbox server in
the DAG), with two members in each pool
• RAID-50 policy selected for each member (14 disks active in the RAID group, two hot-spares
for each member)
• 4 volumes created in each pool, one dedicated to each Exchange Mailbox database