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Reference Architecture for VMware® vSphere™ 4 in a 10 Gigabit iSCSI Environment with Dell™ PowerEdge™ Blade Servers
A Solution Guide

March 2010 Dell Virtualization Solutions Engineering http://www.dell.com/virtualization/businessready

Reference Architecture for VMware vSphere 4 in a 10 Gigabit iSCSI Environment

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Reference Architecture for VMware vSphere 4 in a 10 Gigabit iSCSI Environment

Table of Contents
1 2 3 Introduction Audience and Scope Overview 3.1 3.2 3.3 4 5 6 VMware vSphere 4 Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers Dell EqualLogic PS6010 Series iSCSI Arrays 5 5 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 13 14 15 19 23 23 24 25 25 26 27 27 28 29 29 30 32 32 33

Specification Reference Architecture Network Architecture 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Understanding the Dell Blade Network Architecture vSphere Network Overview LAN Architecture iSCSI SAN Architecture

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Scalability 7.1 7.2 Scaling Compute Resources Scaling Storage Resources

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Storage Configuration 8.1 8.2 Volume Size Considerations Array RAID Configuration