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Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1
2 Audience............................................................................................................... 1
3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................... 2
3.1 Product Overview ............................................................................................. 4
3.1.1 PowerEdge R720 for Hyper-V Cluster ................................................................... 4
3.1.2 EqualLogic PS6100 for iSCSI Storage .................................................................... 4
3.1.3 PowerEdge R620 Management Server .................................................................. 5
3.1.4 PowerConnect 7048 or 6248 for LAN and SAN Traffic ............................................... 5
4 Design Principles ..................................................................................................... 7
4.1 No Single Point of Failure .................................................................................... 7
4.2 Physical Separation of LAN and iSCSI SAN Traffic ....................................................... 7
4.3 Logical Separation of multiple LAN traffic types ........................................................ 7
4.4 Prerequisites and Datacenter Planning .................................................................... 7
5 Architecture .......................................................................................................... 8
5.1 Network Architecture Overview ............................................................................ 8
5.2 LAN Architecture ............................................................................................ 10
5.2.1 Traffic Isolation using VLANs ........................................................................... 10
5.3 SAN Architecture ............................................................................................ 11
5.3.1 Traffic Isolation using VLAN ............................................................................ 11
5.3.2 EqualLogic Storage Concepts ........................................................................... 11
5.3.3 Volume Size Considerations ............................................................................ 11
5.3.4 Storage Array RAID Considerations .................................................................... 12
5.4 Hyper-V Role and Failover Clustering Design ........................................................... 13
5.4.1 Roles and Features ....................................................................................... 13
5.5 Management Architecture ................................................................................. 13
5.5.1 Management on the LAN ................................................................................ 13
6 Scalability ........................................................................................................... 16
6.1 Adding new servers to the Hyper-V Cluster ............................................................ 16
6.2 Adding new storage to the EqualLogic group........................................................... 16
7 References .......................................................................................................... 17