Specifications

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Principled Technologies, Inc.: Dell PowerVault MD3000i high-availability testing on
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V
Server Dell PowerEdge R710
Speed (MHz) 1,333
Speed in the system currently running @ (MHz) 1,333
Timing/latency (tCL-tRCD-iRP-tRASmin) 7-7-7-20
Number of RAM modules 12 x 4 GB
Chip organization Double-sided
Hard disk
Vendor and model number Fujitsu Ltd. MBC2073RC
Number of disks in system 2
Size (GB) 73.5
Buffer size (MB) 16
RPM 15,000
Type SAS
Operating system
Name Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition x64
Build number 6001
File system NTFS
Language English
Network card/subsystem
Vendor and model number Broadcom 5709c NetXtreme II
Type Integrated
Optical drive
Vendor and model number TSSTcorp DVD-ROM TS-L333A ATA Drive
USB ports
Number 4
Type 2.0
Figure 10: Detailed system configuration information for the Dell PowerEdge R710 server.
Note: We used three Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 to function as our domain
controller, LoadGen client, and DVD Store client. Each of these had two 2GHz Intel Xeon processor E5405s,
16GB DDR2 PC5300 667MHz memory, and one Western Digital 80GB 7,200 RPM SATA hard drive.