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Figure 39. Optimization for Virtualizing Citrix XenApp on Citrix XenServer
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Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server. Cisco UCS B200 M2 blade server with two Intel Xeon 5600 Series
processors and 96GB of DDR3 memory was utilized for the testing.
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NetApp FAS3140 Filer. A dedicated Storage Repository over a Fibre Channel LUN on NetApp FAS3140
Filer was used for storing data for all virtualized workloads in the environment, including the Citrix XenApp
virtual machines.
5.4 LAN Configuration
This configuration consists of a pair of Cisco Nexus 5548, a family of low-latency, line-rate, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
and FCoE switches for data center applications. Four 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports are configured on each of
the Cisco UCS fabric interconnects, and they are connected to the Cisco Nexus 5548 pair in a bow tie manner as
shown below. The Fabric interconnect is in End host mode, as we are doing both Fibre Channel as well as
Ethernet data access and as per the recommended best practice of the Cisco Unified Computing System. We
built this out for scale and have provisioned more than 40 G per Fabric interconnect as we are building a scalable
and expandable system (Figure 40).
The upstream configuration is beyond the scope of this document; there are some good reference document [4]
that talks about best practices of using the Cisco Nexus 5500 and 7000 Series Switches.