Specifications

32 Reference Architecture | Dell
TM
Unified Communication Solution with Microsoft® Lync® Server 2013 for Single Site
Implementation | Version 1.0
Virtual Machines
1 x Lync Standard Edition Virtual Machine
Primary Lync Front End Standard Edition VM
1 x Office Web Apps Server Virtual Machine
1 x Persistent Chat Server Virtual Machine
Host2 for Lync Core Server
Hardware Dell PowerEdge R620 rack server with up to 10 x 2.5-inch drive
chassis
CPU
2 x Intel Xeon processor E5-2660 CPUs with 8 cores per CPU
RAM 64 GB
Networks
Quad-port Broadcom® network adapter (within a network
team)
Storage
PERC H710P
10 x 900 GB 10K RPM SAS
Operating System Windows Server 2012 Datacenter or Standard Edition with
stacked licenses (Hyper-V role enabled)
Virtual Machines
1 x Lync Standard Edition Virtual Machine
Backup Registrar Lync Front End VM
1 x Office Web Apps Server Virtual Machine
1 x Back End SQL Server® Virtual Machine
Host3 and Host4 for Lync Edge Server
Hardware Dell PowerEdge R420 rack server with 2.5-inch drive Chassis
CPU per Host 2 x Intel Xeon processor E5-2420 CPUs with 6 cores per CPU
RAM per Host
32 GB
Network per Host Quad-port Broadcom network adapter (within 2 network teams)
Storage PERC H710P
4 x 900 GB 10K RPM SAS
Operating System Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (Hyper-V role enabled)
Virtual Machines per Host 1 x Edge Server Virtual Machine
1 x Reverse Proxy Virtual Machine
As shown above, PowerEdge R620s are used for the Lync core architecture, and two of these servers are
required, as detailed in section 3.2. For the Edge and Reverse Proxy, two PowerEdge R420 servers are
required.
Please note that the server hosts can use either Windows Server 2012 Datacenter edition or optionally
Windows Server 2012 Standard edition with stacked licenses as detailed below.