Appendix a: benchmark setup, Storage array, Primary and secondary hosts – VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance 4 User Manual
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AMD Operteron
Processor 275 – 4 CPUs
2.21GHz 8GB of RAM
ESXi 4.0
Intel Optin XF SR
10GB NIC
Cross cable
Intel NC364T
Quadport Gigabit
Intel Optin XF SR
10GB NIC
EMC Clariion CX3-20
Flare OS 03.2.6.020.5.011
ESXi 4.0
Intel Xeon E5440
2.8GHz – 8 CPUs
8GB of RAM
Intel Xeon E5440
2.8GHz – 8 CPUs
8GB of RAM
Storage Array
System: ClariiON CX3-20
FLARE OS: 03.26.020.5.011
LUNs: RAID 5 LUNs (6 disks), RAID 0 LUNS (6 disks)
Primary and Secondary Hosts
System: Dell PowerEdge 2950
Processor: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5440 @ 2.83GHz
Number of cores: 8; Number of sockets: 2; L2 cache: 6M
Memory: 8GB
Client Machine
System: HP Proliant DL385 G1
Processor: AMD Opteron 275 @2.21 Ghz
Number of cores: 4, Number of sockets: 2
Memory: 8GB
OS: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2, 32-bit
NICs: Two Broadcom HP NC7782 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, one connected to the LAN, one connected via private switch to the primary
ESX host.