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Figure 19 presents the diagram of the network connections between the 4 blade servers and the
storage arrays:
Figure 19 Network connectivity diagram
A.3 Host hypervisor and virtual machines configuration
A virtual infrastructure built with VMware vSphere hosted all the components of both the messaging
and test infrastructure. Some key elements of the virtual infrastructure configuration were:
• VMware 4.1 ESXi deployed on 4 hosts, all centrally managed by the same vCenter server
• 2 hypervisor hosts (M710s) configured as a cluster, with HA and DRS features turned off
• 2 hypervisor hosts (M610s) configured as standalone
• All guests deployed from a single template
• Guest VM OS disks statically deployed into the local VMFS data store of its respective host
• Guest iSCSI initiator used to access volumes hosted on the EqualLogic SAN