HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virtualization Deployment (October 2009)

Applications running on VMs and data LUNs for these applications may be configured into one of
the following options:
 The iSCSI SAN LUNs (EVA Vdisks D1, D2, D3, D4) can be pooled into the VMFS file system
volume and presented to VMs (VM1, VM2, VM3) by carving out this volume, using VMFS, as
needed individually by the applications running on these VMs. The native file system of the
guest operating system can be installed on the VMFS carved-out volume, and the application
and data can be stored here.
 EVA Vdisks (D5, D6, D7) are presented as RDM (Raw Device Map – individual abstracted
device) to different VMs (VM1, VM2, VM3). This allows the guest OS to format the file system
directly on the raw device file. Application and data on the VM are configured in a native file
system of the guest OS created on the RDM.
While the VMs benefit from VMFS services, as per the application demand, the MPX200 solution
provides many individual devices (Vdisks) to those VMs.
The MPX200 provides more ESX server connectivity and high performance via the 10G option
and is an excellent solution for traditional ESX server implementations and deployments.