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A.4 Software components
The setup of all the servers (physical and virtual) required the deployment of the following software
components:
• Bare-metal hypervisor: VMware 4.1 ESXi on all host servers
• Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2 on all virtual machines
• Active Directory Domain Services and DNS Server roles for the domain controller (DC1 virtual
machine)
• VMware vCenter Server, Client and CLI for the virtual infrastructure management (VCENTER
virtual machine)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 custom installed depending on the role of the server (MBX1/2,
HUBCAS1/2 virtual machines)
• EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit to access the storage SAN with MPIO and to use ASM/ME
• EqualLogic SAN Headquarters and Microsoft Exchange Management tools to monitor the
health and performances of the infrastructure elements (MONITOR virtual machine)
• Microsoft Exchange Load Generator to simulate client access traffic against the Exchange
infrastructure (LOAD virtual machine)
Table 17 lists the detailed software components and version required for the configuration setup:
Table 17 Configuration – Software Components
Test Configuration – Software Components:
Operating
systems
•
Host: VMware ESXi 4.1.0 update 1Enterprise (build 348581)
o Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.5.0
• Guest: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Service
Pack 1 (build 7601)
o EqualLogic Host Integration Toolkit 3.5.1
o MPIO enabled using EqualLogic DSM for Windows for storage-
connected guests
Application
•
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1 (build
218.15)
• Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0
• VMware vSphere 4.1.0 vCenter Server and Client (build 345043)
• VMware vSphere 4.1.0 CLI (build 254719)
Monitoring tools
•
Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters 2.1 (build 2.1.0.5342)
• Microsoft Performance Monitor (built-in the Windows Operating
System)
• Performance and Mail Flow tools (Microsoft Exchange Management
tools)
Simulation tools
• Microsoft Exchange Load Generator 2010 (build 14.01.0180.003)