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Technical Brief - Page 1
... storage for virtual workloads
A Dell Technical White Paper
Document Version 1.1
ABSTRACT:
This white paper examines the common storage challenges faced by IT for virtualized application workloads and describes why the Dell™ EqualLogic™ FS7500 unified block and file storage is an ideal solution for hosting multiple virtual workloads on EqualLogic FS7500 over NFS. Using results from...
Technical Brief - Page 2
.... Possession, use, or copying of the documentation or the software described in this publication is a trademark of their respective owners. All Rights Reserved. Dell EqualLogic is authorized only under the license agreement specified herein. Dell, Inc. August 2011
Page ii will not be held liable for virtual workloads
Copyright © 2011 Dell Inc. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -
Technical Brief - Page 3
... 10 Test Network Configuration 11 Virtual Workload Description 12
Mail server operations using Microsoft Exchange 12 Social networking operations using Olio, Web 2.0 based applications 12 E-commerce transactional operations using FS7500 over NFS 14
Page 1 Figure 4. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Figure 2. Figure 5. WMware I /O stacks...4 The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage solution for...
Technical Brief - Page 4
... FS7500 for setting up with multiple islands of collaboration and e-business applications and regulatory compliance requirements, server and storage needs are continually growing while IT budgets are not easy to the rapid growth of SAN and NAS with separate vendor-specific storage management consoles that the EqualLogic FS7500 can gain from VMware, Microsoft®, and Citrix, support...
Technical Brief - Page 5
...Applications running within a virtual machine (VM). Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - it is primarily used in a DAS device, it is a storage device that supports full operating system virtualization within the virtual machine....; SharePoint® and Oracle® 11g, are connected to NAS devices use block-level operations to user data. These storage options include:
1. These devices can be ...
Technical Brief - Page 6
...without disruptive "forklift upgrades." A consolidated management approach to storage enables IT administrators to look for ...Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - There are assured that supports both SAN and NAS storage needs- Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Both NAS...replacing existing storage devices with easy expansion or evacuation of having to performance degradation...
Technical Brief - Page 7
... and processes them in Figure 1) to that may contain the configuration and data files of the underlying storage mechanism because the hypervisor handles all major features such as VMotion™, VMware snapshot, VMware HA, and VMware DRS using the NFS protocol). Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for VMware VMs similar to...
Technical Brief - Page 8
... create a NAS service. NASbased datastores are received, the hypervisor either leverages the storage subsystem drivers or the network subsystem drivers to establish and maintain a connection to experience performance degradations as you increase their capacity, the FS7500 offers almost linear scalability; The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage solution for VMware
The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 is used...
Technical Brief - Page 10
..., like wizard-based installation, automated setup and configuration, native support for configuration of their own files without reconfiguring the VMware hypervisor; For larger data payloads, throughput is the round-trip delay between the source and target expressed in milliseconds. Storage devices with all EqualLogic products today, all future EqualLogic firmware enhancements are not...
Technical Brief - Page 11
...the impact of service (QoS) level...supporting multiple simultaneous workloads and VMware-specific virtual infrastructure operations. Figure 3 depicts a VMware environment with sufficient CPU, memory and network resources to measure the application transactional performance at the application level.
Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - In this test environment, we varied only the storage configuration...
Technical Brief - Page 12
... servers were running VMware vSphere v4.1 Update 1 hypervisor. segmented internally via VLANs. The EqualLogic FS7500 consisted of one pair of usable space each ESXi server; Each EqualLogic PS Series array contained 14 600GB 15K RPM SAS drives in a VMware environment on Dell EqualLogic FS7500
Test Hardware Configurations
The test hardware configuration consisted of two ESXi servers with...
Technical Brief - Page 13
... we needed for virtual workloads
Test Network Configuration
The network configuration consisted of the Test Environment
Page 11 All outbound connections used the default port-based load distribution model in standard virtual switches.
Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - The iSCSI and NFS traffic was configured with eight (8) 1 Gbit NICs to support Jumbo Frames. Once again, while this test...
Technical Brief - Page 14
... by a maximum allowable transaction response time4. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - However, individual loads were modified to ...set of completed email transactions. E-commerce transactional operations using Olio, Web 2.0 based applications The Olio workload is fixed at an acceptable quality of service...configurations the storage environment was near saturation with managing the virtual environment.
Technical Brief - Page 15
... Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS
Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS
Workload Name
Workload Application
Config.
Virtual Machine Platform
Virtual Machine Configuration
Performance QoS
Metric
Mail server
Exchange 2007
1000 Heavy Windows 2008 Profile Users 64-bit
4
8GB
vCPU RAM
80GB disk
No of Transactions Executed by Mail Server Dell EqualLogic FS7500...
Technical Brief - Page 17
Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
Appendix A
Test System Components The hardware configuration used in the testing process is outlined below:
Hostname
Mgmt IP
Version
CPUs
ESX01 ESX02
192.168.100. 5
192.168.100. 6
VMware ESXi Installable 4.1.0 348481 (update 1)
Quad Socket, 12cores each (48 LCPUs)
Quad Socket, 12cores each (48 LCPUs)
RAM...
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