Data Protection for VMware and Application Data in Mission Critical Environments

Storage and server hardware configuration

Table 1 and 2 respectively detail the storage and servers’ hardware configuration:

Table 1: EVA8100 configuration (Production system Local site)

1 set (2 pairs) of EVA8100 controllers

2 disk shelves

4GB cache per controller

28 * 300 GB 10K rpm disk drives

EVA firmware revision: XCS 6110

Table 2: EVA8100 configuration (Mirror site system Remote site)

1 set (2 pairs) of EVA8100 controllers

2 disk shelves

4GB cache per controller

28 * 300 GB 10K rpm disk drives

EVA firmware revision: XCS 6110

Table 3: EVA4400 configuration (Local site virtual file library)

1 set (2 pairs) of EVA4400 controllers

1 disk shelve

4GB cache per controller

12 * 146 GB 10K rpm disk drives

EVA firmware revision: 09003000

Table 4 ESX Server configuration

ESX Server 3.5 build 64607 ESX Configuration parameters

DL365 G1 (4CPU x 2.2GHz) dual-core AMD Disk.UseLunReset = 1

12 GB RAM Disk.UseDeviceReset = 0

1 Dual Channel 4 GB QLogic HBA Disk.MaxLUN = 256

2 Gig-E Broadcom network cards LVM.EnableResignature = 0

LVM.DisallowSnapshotLUN = 1

Table 5: Virtual machine configuration (VMware Consolidated Backup Test)

Windows Server 2003 R2

VM boot disk: 30GB vmdk

1 LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter

2 Virtual Ethernet adapters

2 GB RAM

2 virtual CPU