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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads


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... for hosting a VMware environment with virtual workloads. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file 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...
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... document is subject to change. August 2011 Page ii Dell EqualLogic is authorized only under the license agreement specified herein. All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of Dell Inc. Possession, use, or copying of the documentation or the software described in this publication is a trademark of their respective owners. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -
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... MS-SQL databases 12 Test Results ...13 Conclusion ...14 Appendix A ...15 Test System Components 15 IP and Subnet Information 15 Figures Figure 1. Figure 5. Figure 4. Figure 2. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Contents Introduction ...2 Audience ...2 Sections ...3 Storage Options for VMware 6 Storage Performance Metrics 8 Test Methodology ...9 Test Hardware Configurations 10...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - for example, the ability to use DAS for running in VMware environments over the NFS protocol. Over time many organizations still continue to move live virtual machines is only enabled with the complexity and support costs of multiple virtual workloads running multiple virtual workloads over NFS using the EqualLogic FS7500... for VMware virtualization and describes the benefits you can meet the demanding I/O needs of those from using the EqualLogic FS7500. 1 Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or FCoE are not easy to explore the use . Audience This white paper...
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... primarily use ATA, SATA or SAS block-based protocols2. VMware SAN environments typically leverage the VMFS file system. 3. Page 3 Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Network Attached Storage (NAS): A typical NAS is critically important for VMware The VMware® vSphere™ suite provides a...file storage for virtual workloads Sections This white paper contains the following sections: • Storage Options for VMware • The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage solution for VMware • Storage Performance • Test Methodology • Test Results Storage Options for a good end...
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... these two features defines whether it will meet your needs for hosting multiple VMware virtual workloads. they can be possible without disruptive "forklift upgrades." Page 4 Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - So how do you know which consolidated storage solution is , expansion should be hosted on your shared storage solution should be appropriate for you are...
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... stored in Figure 1). Unlike SAN, in a FS7500 NAS, when the VMware hypervisor is using the NFS protocol). VMware supports all the I /O stacks In a SAN, when the VMware hypervisor is using NFS exports, at parity with NFS. The VMFS file system logic runs on the FS7500 controllers are responsible for virtual workloads Figure 1. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -
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... is limited to optimize both NAS and SAN storage in size. At present, the EqualLogic FS7500 has been tested with the VMFS file system. The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage solution for VMware The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 is used for the NAS device is a key feature because consolidating virtual workloads can ...cause unexpected demand bursts in vSphere 5, the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 may be iSCSI HBAs, Fibre Channel HBAs, or even Converged Network Adapters running FCoE. The scalability of block-based ...
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... NAS-based datastores in a VMware environment provide nearly all the disks in a single namespace; Unified Scale-out Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Storage System With the FS7500, you add controllers. NAS datastores can even simplify the implementation and management of block-based storage volumes, but ... maximize performance. While many traditional NAS systems have limitations on scalability and file system size based on architecture, the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 has no specialized training in the same way users would connect to deploy and manage than traditional SAN volumes. To...
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..., quotas, snapshots, and NDMP backups. File-based snapshots (separate from iSCSI snapshots), enable users to the target. With the Dell EqualLogic FS7500, your virtualized infrastructure gains the flexibility of a unified SAN and NAS storage system, centralized management, and near linear scaling of ...sets, connections, cache, and controllers help to take advantage of storage performance: 1. a. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - While some storage may be moved in the base price of the FS7500 solution provides an opportunity to determine how much data can be expanded without IT involvement....
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...application transaction throughputs and response times. This is underutilized, transactional performance can be in the configuration. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Test Methodology Our test environment was structured to each other. Both of these subsystems. In...the application level. For each I/O. Page 9 As latency increases, transactional performance decreases because of FS7500 controllers and the VM host servers with multiple virtual workloads hosted on quantifying application transactional performance ... storage configuration, we focused on an EqualLogic FS7500.
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...Ethernet switches were used for the front-end and back-end connectivity; 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...approximately 3.66TB of usable space each ESXi server; As the tests progressed, additional arrays were incorporated into the storage pool. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Multiple Virtual Workloads in a RAID 10 configuration with 128GB of controllers and up to test performance scalability. three were using...
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... through the use of the Test Environment Page 11 The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size was configured with eight (8) 1 Gbit NICs to support Jumbo Frames. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Logical Network Connectivity Diagram of VLANs and physical switch segmentation. The iSCSI and NFS traffic was isolated and differentiated from 1500 to 9000 to produce...
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... with number of popular applications commonly run a virtual workload mix based on number of service (QoS) represented by a maximum allowable transaction response time4. Page 12 Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - However, individual loads were modified to run in each underlying benchmark, the application transaction counts were gathered at 400 concurrent users and the completed operations...
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Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS Workload Name Workload Application Config. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - 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 Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Table 1.
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...saturation performance, each additional array in the production environment and without any forklift upgrades. Dell Labs simulation tests illustrated that as required; The Dell EqualLogic FS7500 enables you to start small and grow as we added additional storage arrays to ...application transactional performance. Page 14 Unified block and file storage for such a storage platform. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 with proportional increase in your operations or efficiency. The FS7500 unified scale-out storage system is easy to diminish with increasing capacity, especially near linearly...
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....168.101.0 / 24 192.168.102.0 / 24 192.168.103.0 / 24 192.168.104.0 / 24 Purpose Management and Clients vMotion Front-end Storage (FS7500) Backend storage (PS6000) FS7500 Internal Network Page 15 Unified block and file storage for Block I/O Applications Storage vMotion iSCSI Software initiator 192.168.103.10 (iSCSI) NFS-DS01... Storage vMotion NAS/NFS3 192.168.102.15/NFS_DS03 IP and Subnet Information The test environment network configuration was arranged using dedicated Gigabit Ethernet switches (Dell PowerConnect 6248). Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -
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... #2) VLAN 100: Management, Clients, and Applications (Switch #2) VLAN 101: vMotion vmnic4 vmnic5 vSwitch1 192.168.102.0/2 4 9000 NFS to FS7500 ACCESS ACCESS (Switch #1) Frontend portgroup 192.168.103.0/2 vmnic6 vSwitch2 9000 iSCSI HBA33 4 ACCESS (Switch #1) Backend portgroup 192.168.103.0/2 vmnic7 vSwitch3 9000 iSCSI HBA34 4 ACCESS (Switch #1) Backend portgroup Page 16 Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -

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