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Appendix A Test configuration details
A.1 Hardware configuration
Table 10 lists the details of the hardware components required for the configuration setup:
Table 10 Configuration – Hardware components
Test configuration – Hardware components:
Servers
•
Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade enclosure
• Dell PowerEdge M710 Blade Server
o 2x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processors, 2.93 GHz, 8M
Cache
o RAM 64 GB
o 2x146GB 15K SAS (RAID-1)
o 4x Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709S Dual Port GbE Mezzanine Card
• Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server
o 2x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5520 Processors, 2.26 GHz, 8M
Cache
o RAM 32 GB
o 2x73GB 15K SAS (RAID-1)
o 2x Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709S Dual Port GbE Mezzanine Card
Network
•
2x Dell PowerConnect M6220 Blade Switches
o installed in M1000e blade enclosure fabrics A1 and A2
• 2x Dell PowerConnect M6348 Blade Switches
o installed in M1000e blade enclosure fabrics B1 and B2
• 2x Dell PowerConnect 6248 Switches
o rack installed
Storage
• 4x Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV
o Dual 4-port 1GbE controllers (Firmware 5.0.5)
o 16 x 450GB 15K SAS disks (RAID-50)
A.2 Network configuration
Two physical networks were built in order to provide full isolation between regular IP traffic and iSCSI
data storage traffic. Also, each IP network was segregated from the others by the use of VLANs with
tagged traffic. In order to achieve network resiliency for hardware faults, we paired (stack or lag) at
least two physical switches for each network.