Dell EqualLogic FS7500 - Manual (Page 17)

Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads
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Appendix A
Test System Components
The hardware configuration used in the testing process is outlined below:
Hostname Mgmt IP Version CPUs RAM
ESX01
192.168.100.
5
VMware ESXi Installable
4.1.0 348481 (update 1)
Quad Socket, 12-
cores each (48
LCPUs)
128GB
ESX02
192.168.100.
6
Quad Socket, 12-
cores each (48
LCPUs)
128GB
The datastore configuration on each ESXi server is outlined below:
Datastore Type Size Purpose
Storage
Port type
Storage Connection
BlockDS01 VMFS 800GB Future use for
Block I/O
Applications
iSCSI
Software
initiator
192.168.103.10 (iSCSI)
BlockDS02 VMFS 800GB
BlockDS03 VMFS 200GB
Storage
vMotion
NFS-DS01 NFS 808GB
NFS I/O
Applications
NAS/NFS3 192.168.102.15/NFS_DS01
NFS-DS02 NFS 808GB NAS/NFS3 192.168.102.15/NFS_DS02
NFS-DS03 NFS 200GB
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). The subnet configuration is shown below:
Subnet Purpose
192.168.100.0 / 24 Management and Clients
192.168.101.0 / 24 vMotion
192.168.102.0 / 24 Front-end Storage (FS7500)
192.168.103.0 / 24 Backend storage (PS6000)
192.168.104.0 / 24 FS7500 Internal Network