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vStart 100 and 200 VMware vSphere Reference Architecture
Dell Inc 3
Table of Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4
2 Audience............................................................................................................... 4
3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Product Overview ............................................................................................. 7
4 Design Principles and Solution Capabilities ..................................................................... 9
4.1 No Single Point of Failure .................................................................................... 9
4.2 Physical Separation of LAN and iSCSI SAN Traffic ..................................................... 10
4.3 Logical Separation of multiple LAN traffic types ...................................................... 10
4.4 Requirements for Integration into an Existing Data Center ......................................... 10
4.5 VMware vSphere Features ................................................................................. 11
4.6 Leverage EqualLogic Storage Integration with VMware .............................................. 11
4.7 Thin Provisioning ............................................................................................ 11
4.8 Storage Tiering .............................................................................................. 11
5 Architecture ........................................................................................................ 11
5.1 Network Architecture Overview .......................................................................... 11
5.2 LAN Architecture ............................................................................................ 13
5.3 SAN Architecture ............................................................................................ 14
5.4 Management Architecture ................................................................................. 17
6 Scalability ........................................................................................................... 20
7 References .......................................................................................................... 21