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... for VMware 3 VMware I /O stacks 5 Unified Scale-out Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Storage System 7 Multiple Virtual Workloads in a VMware environment on Dell EqualLogic FS7500 10 Logical Network Connectivity Diagram of the Test Environment 11 Performance of...Contents Introduction ...2 Audience ...2 Sections ...3 Storage Options for VMware 6 Storage Performance Metrics 8 Test Methodology ...9 Test Hardware Configurations 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 ...
... for VMware 3 VMware I /O stacks 5 Unified Scale-out Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Storage System 7 Multiple Virtual Workloads in a VMware environment on Dell EqualLogic FS7500 10 Logical Network Connectivity Diagram of the Test Environment 11 Performance of...Contents Introduction ...2 Audience ...2 Sections ...3 Storage Options for VMware 6 Storage Performance Metrics 8 Test Methodology ...9 Test Hardware Configurations 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 ...
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Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Page 5 From a technical perspective, the VMware hypervisor typically abstracts the I /O processing on the FS7500 controllers are responsible for virtual workloads Figure 1. The VMFS file system logic runs on a storage volume (shown as NFS Export in Figure 1) to ... with block storage. NFS services are responsible for managing the layout and structure of one or more VMs. These datastores may contain the configuration and data files of the files and directories on the NAS device are also used for VMware VMs similar to the ESXi host server....
Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Page 5 From a technical perspective, the VMware hypervisor typically abstracts the I /O processing on the FS7500 controllers are responsible for virtual workloads Figure 1. The VMFS file system logic runs on a storage volume (shown as NFS Export in Figure 1) to ... with block storage. NFS services are responsible for managing the layout and structure of one or more VMs. These datastores may contain the configuration and data files of the files and directories on the NAS device are also used for VMware VMs similar to the ESXi host server....
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... storage for virtual workloads Finally, through the use of the FS7500 system. Storage devices with high I/O latency are all Dell EqualLogic products, advanced features like wizard-based installation, automated setup and configuration, native support for Active Directory, LDAP and NIS, and ...This enables you to improve productivity and streamline infrastructure management. Throughput: This is the quantity of the FS7500 solution provides an opportunity to configure and manage storage for each transaction can be broken into smaller fragments, making IOPS information not very useful....
... storage for virtual workloads Finally, through the use of the FS7500 system. Storage devices with high I/O latency are all Dell EqualLogic products, advanced features like wizard-based installation, automated setup and configuration, native support for Active Directory, LDAP and NIS, and ...This enables you to improve productivity and streamline infrastructure management. Throughput: This is the quantity of the FS7500 solution provides an opportunity to configure and manage storage for each transaction can be broken into smaller fragments, making IOPS information not very useful....
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.... However, when the system is typically defined by a maximum application transaction response time. For each storage configuration, we focused on an EqualLogic FS7500. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Test Methodology Our test environment was structured to measure the application transactional performance at the application level. In...the impact of service (QoS) level that is underutilized, transactional performance can be in the configuration. As latency increases, transactional performance decreases because of these subsystems. In terms of hardware, we varied only the storage...
.... However, when the system is typically defined by a maximum application transaction response time. For each storage configuration, we focused on an EqualLogic FS7500. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Test Methodology Our test environment was structured to measure the application transactional performance at the application level. In...the impact of service (QoS) level that is underutilized, transactional performance can be in the configuration. As latency increases, transactional performance decreases because of these subsystems. In terms of hardware, we varied only the storage...
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...storage for the front-end and back-end connectivity; Two Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet switches were used for virtual workloads Figure 3. segmented internally via VLANs. Six shared datastores were configured on the FS7500 and the other three were using block I/O using VMFS. .... 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 controllers and up to test performance scalability. Both...
...storage for the front-end and back-end connectivity; Two Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet switches were used for virtual workloads Figure 3. segmented internally via VLANs. Six shared datastores were configured on the FS7500 and the other three were using block I/O using VMFS. .... 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 controllers and up to test performance scalability. Both...
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... VLANs and physical switch segmentation. Logical Network Connectivity Diagram of two dedicated Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet switches. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - All outbound connections used the default port-based load distribution model in standard virtual switches. The iSCSI and NFS traffic was configured with eight (8) 1 Gbit NICs to support Jumbo Frames. Figure 4. Each ESXi...
... VLANs and physical switch segmentation. Logical Network Connectivity Diagram of two dedicated Dell PowerConnect 6248 Gigabit Ethernet switches. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - All outbound connections used the default port-based load distribution model in standard virtual switches. The iSCSI and NFS traffic was configured with eight (8) 1 Gbit NICs to support Jumbo Frames. Figure 4. Each ESXi...
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.... Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Virtual Workload Description To ensure that other subsystems were not becoming a bottleneck. For each run. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - In all tested configurations the storage environment was near saturation with number of popular applications commonly run in each underlying benchmark, the application transaction counts were gathered...
.... Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Virtual Workload Description To ensure that other subsystems were not becoming a bottleneck. For each run. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - In all tested configurations the storage environment was near saturation with number of popular applications commonly run in each underlying benchmark, the application transaction counts were gathered...
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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 Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS Workload Name Workload Application Config. Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Table 1. 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 Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 over NFS Virtual Workload Configurations Tested on FS7500 NFS Workload Name Workload Application Config. Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads Table 1. Dell EqualLogic FS7500 -
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... 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). The subnet configuration is outlined below : Subnet 192.168.100.0 / 24 192.168.101.0 / 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 Dell EqualLogic FS7500...
... 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). The subnet configuration is outlined below : Subnet 192.168.100.0 / 24 192.168.101.0 / 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 Dell EqualLogic FS7500...