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4 Reference architecture overview

The Storage Interoperability Lab conducted preliminary testing on a self-contained M1000e based data

center-in-a-box architecture that included testing of multiple networking components as well as using

blade servers from the latest two generations of M-Series blade servers. The following sections describe

the various sub-systems used:

4.1 PowerEdge M-Series blade servers

The blade servers used servers from the last two generations of PowerEdge M-Series servers. Each

server is running Windows Server 2008R2 with Service Pack 1. Detailed M1000e and Server

configuration information is provided below.

Figure 1 Tested server configurations

PowerEdge

M710HD

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