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vStart 1000v for Enterprise Virtualization using VMware vSphere: Reference Architecture
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Table 1 below describes the key solution components and the roles served.
Table 1: Solution Components
Component
Details
Hypervisor Server
PowerEdge M1000e chassis with
PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers and
embedded VMware vSphere 5
Management components
hosted in the management
infrastructure
 VMware vCenter Server
 Compellent Enterprise Manager
 Dell Management Plugin for
VMware vCenter
 Virtual Integrated System (VIS)
Creator
 OpenManage Essentials
 VMware vCloud Connector
 Compellent Plugin for VMware
vCenter
LAN Switch
Two Force10 S4810 and 10GbE Pass-
through-k modules for the Chassis
SAN Switch
Two Brocade 5100 Fiber Switch and
Dell 8 | 4 I/O modules for the chassis
Storage
Two Compellent Series 40 controllers
with SAS enclosures
Management Infrastructure
Two PowerEdge R620 servers with
embedded VMware vSphere 5 hosting
management VMs. One Force10 S55
used as a 1Gb management switch
3.1 VMware vSphere 5
VMware vSphere 5 includes the ESXi™ hypervisor as well as vCenter™ Server which is used to configure
and manage VMware hosts. Key capabilities for the ESXi Enterprise Plus license level include:
 VMware vMotion: VMware vMotion technology provides real-time migration of running virtual
machines (VM) from one host to another with no disruption or downtime.
 VMware High Availability (HA): VMware HA provides high availability at the VM level. Upon
host failure, VMware HA automatically re-starts VMs on other physical hosts running ESXi.
VMware vSphere 5 uses Fault Domain Manager (FDM) for High Availability.
 VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
(DPM): VMware DRS technology enables vMotion to automatically achieve load balancing
according to resource requirements. When VMs in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as