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BP1024 Scaling and Best Practices for Virtual Workload Environments with the FS7500 30
Figure 20 Host to FS7500 connections for one FS7500 system
In the next configuration, one FS7500 system (2 x controllers) and six PS6100X arrays were used. The
number of datastores and IP address access policy was the same. Only the capacity of each datastore
was expanded. The intent was to study the scalability of the solution when the PS Series arrays were
doubled.
In the third configuration, two FS7500 systems (4 x controllers) and six PS6100X arrays were used.
Three datastores were used to host the OS, data, and Log data. Out of 16 NAS service IP addresses
available, one was used for log, one for VMDKs and OS, and remaining 14 IP addresses were used for
data. Figure 21 below illustrates these connections.