Reference Architecture for Active System 800 with Microsoft Hyper-V Release 1.
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Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Table of Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 2 Audience............................................................................................................... 1 3 Solution Overview ................................................................................................... 2 4 Design Principles ...................................
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 3: I/O Connectivity for M620 Blade Server ................................................................. 10 Figure 4: Converged Fabric Overview ................................................................................ 11 Figure 5: Converged Network configuration for Compute Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers........... 12 Figure 6: Converged Network Configuration for Management of Dell PowerEdge R620 Servers ..........
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 1 Introduction Dell™ Active Infrastructure is a family of converged infrastructure solutions that combine servers, storage, networking, and infrastructure management into an integrated and optimized system that provides general purpose virtualized resource pools.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 3 Solution Overview This section provides a high-level product overview of the major components of the Active System 800 as illustrated in Figure 1. Readers can skip the sections of products with which they are familiar.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Table 1: Solution Components Component Description Role Compute Cluster PowerEdge M620 blade servers running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition with HyperV role enabled Host highly-available virtual machines (VMs) Management Cluster PowerEdge R620 servers running Windows Server® 2012 Datacenter Edition with Hyper-V role enabled.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: monitoring and updates — for Dell servers, storage, and network systems. OME employs the embedded management of Dell PowerEdge™ servers — Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller — to enable agent-free remote management and monitoring of server hardware components like storage, networking, processors, and memory. For more information on Dell Enterprise Management and OpenManage Essentials, see http://content.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Embedded Management with Dell’s Lifecycle Controller: The Lifecycle Controller is the engine for advanced embedded management and is delivered as part of iDRAC7 Enterprise in Dell PowerEdge 12th generation blade servers. For more information on Dell Lifecycle Controllers and blade servers, see http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/dcsm-embedded-management and Dell.com/blades.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Management features include: · · · Group Manager, which integrates all management into one console for both file and block-storage protocols Dell EqualLogic Host Software that extends the functionality of the array-based software to enable cooperation with the host Host Integration Tools for Microsoft®, VMware® and Linux® products as well as Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) management software Contact your Dell sales representative for
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 5 Prerequisites and Datacenter Planning Power, Cooling, and Weight Considerations: Dell Active System 800m solution is configured with PDUs to meet the power requirements of the components, as well as regional constraints. Power consumed, cooling required, and information regarding rack weight are provided to enable customers to plan appropriate power and cooling for the solution.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 6 Architecture One of the key attributes of the Dell Active System 800m is the convergence of SAN and LAN over the same network infrastructure. LAN and iSCSI SAN traffic share the same physical connections from servers to storage. The converged network is designed using Data Center Bridging (DCB) (IEEE 802.1) and Data Center Bridging Exchange (DCBX) (IEEE 802.1AB) technologies and features.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 2: Converged Network Topology (Logical View) with optional 2nd Chassis Workload Virtual Machines Force10 MXL 10/40GbE S55 1 LNK 37-40 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 ACT ter Mas USB-B STACK ID 1 1 PSU FAN 0 0 ALM SYS PSU FAN ACT 44 45 46 47 Ethernet Core Network USB-A 2 Gb VLT PEER LAG Port-Channel VLT PEER LAG Port-channel 100 PSU SYS 1 RS-232 Q SF P+
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 6.1 Dell Blade Network Architecture In this solution, the Chassis Fabric A contains Dell Force10 IO Aggregator modules and is used for converged LAN and SAN traffic. Fabric B and Fabric C are not used. M620 blade servers use the Broadcom 57810-k Dual port 10GbE KR Blade NDC to connect to the Fabric A. Dell Force10 IO Aggregator modules uplink to Dell Force10 S4810 network switches providing LAN AND SAN connectivity.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Each Dell PowerEdge M620 blade server is configured with a Broadcom BCM57810 bNDC providing two 10GbE ports. These ports are connected to the Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator in Fabric A. The corresponding ports on A1 and A2 modules are connected with the two Dell Force10 S4810 switches outside the blade chassis enclosure.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 5: Converged Network configuration for Compute Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Servers Management VMn BW Weight 5 Cluster / CSV ConvergedNet Team BW Weight 40 EQL Storage with MPIO VM2 (Switch Independent Hyper-V Port Load Balancing) Live Migration VM1 BW Weight 20 Broadcom 57810 bNDC iSCSI 0 NDIS 0 iSCSI 1 Single Function IOE Enabled Single Function IOE Enabled 0 1 IO Aggregator ETS 50% LAN ETS 50% SAN + PFC A1 IO Aggregator
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 6: Converged Network Configuration for Management of Dell PowerEdge R620 Servers Management VMn BW Weight 5 Cluster / CSV ConvergedNet Team BW Weight 40 EQL Storage with MPIO VM2 (Switch Independent Hyper-V Port Load Balancing) Live Migration VM1 BW Weight 20 Add in CNA Broadcom 57810 DP 10Gb iSCSI 0 NDIS 0 iSCSI 1 NDIS 1 Single Function IOE Enabled Single Function IOE Enabled 0 1 ETS 50% LAN ETS 50% SAN + PFC DCB Force
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Traffic Type Management Node Hypervisor Management Cluster Use Supports virtualization management traffic and communication between the management servers in the cluster. Supports private cluster traffic for the management clusters. Management Live Migration Supports migration of VMs between the management servers in the cluster. Management Tenant VM Supports the virtual machine traffic for the management virtual machines.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: The design of PowerEdge R620 servers includes high availability and redundant features such as redundant fans and power supplies that are distributed to independent power sources. The servers also use PERC H710 controllers with two hard disks configured with RAID-1 to prevent server crashes in the event of single disk failures. 6.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 7: Active System SAN Connectivity Overview Dell Inc.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 6.5.1.2 Performance Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Series uses a redundant controller architecture with a single active 10GbE front-end port per controller. To allow the network port to dedicate the 10GbE bandwidth to SAN traffic, the 1GbE out-of-band port is used for configuration and performance monitoring. 6.5.1.3 Drive Types The Dell EqualLogic PS6110 Series arrays use a high performance 10K RPM SAS drive in the default configuration.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 6.5.1.8 iSCSI Encryption and Authentication Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is available for use on the EqualLogic PS6110 Series Storage Center. This feature allows hosts to authenticate to the EqualLogic PS6110 iSCSI target prior to the target being available for use on the system. 6.5.1.9 Jumbo Frames In the Dell Active System configuration, Jumbo Frames are enabled for all devices of the iSCSI SAN fabric.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 8: Management Architecture System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager Windows Server 2008 R2 VM OpenManage Essentials & EqualLogic SAN HQ Dell Active System Manager Optional SQL Server System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager Additional System Center 2012 SP1 Components Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition with Hyper-V Role Enabled Hyper-V Management Cluster · · · Core Network add-ons for optional management Dell OpenMan
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 7.1 Active System Manager Active System Manager is an intelligent and intuitive converged infrastructure and workload manager. Active System Manager leverages templates to automate infrastructure provisioning, on-boarding, and re-configuration, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the process, and also significantly reduces errors associated with manual configuration.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 9: Manage Active System 800m with Server Manager · Hyper-V Manager: In Windows Server 2012, more than 160 PowerShell command-lets (cmdlets) were added for Hyper-V. On the host management, Hyper-V Manager allows the configuring of physical Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Live Migrations, storage migration, and Hyper-V replication.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 10: Resources Measuring in PowerShell 3.0 7.3 Dell OpenManage Essentials Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) is a system management console that provides simple, basic Dell hardware management. Dell OME 1.1 manages the host running Windows Server 2012. It supports agent-free hardware inventory and system update (e.g., BIOS, firmware) for the 11 th and 12th generations of Dell PowerEdge servers.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: For more information on OpenManage Essentials, see www.delltechcenter.com/ome. Figure 11: OME Dashboard Dell Lifecycle Controller: Helps to reduce operating costs by simplifying server deployment and management. Key features include diagnostics, self-update (UEFI, Driver Pack update), firmware updates (BIOS, NIC FW, RAID Controllers), and hardware configuration. Also, the integrated iDRAC provides the mechanism for OME agentless management.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Dell SAN HQ can: · Monitor one or more PS Series groups and store operational data for up to a year · Obtain a centralized view of the health and status of multiple groups · View IO rates, throughput, and latency for each volume, member, pool, or group · Allow the same performance data to be viewed by multiple clients simultaneously · Monitor and analyze capacity usage for groups If action is required, launch the Dell EqualLogic Group Man
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: · SMB 3.0 File Shares: Support for designating network file shares on Windows Server 2012 computers as the storage location for virtual machine files, such as configuration, virtual hard disk files, and checkpoints. · Live Migration Enhancements: Supports performing simultaneous Live Migrations with options like Live, Live VSM, and Live Storage. 7.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 12: Connectivity of OOB management components.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 13 below shows the Dell Active System 800m solution with a single chassis. Figure 14 shows Dell Active System 800m with two chassis and the maximum number of storage enclosures. Note that the switches shown in the figures below are shown mounted forward for representation. In actual use, ports face the back of the rack. PDUs shown are for illustration and vary by region or customer power requirements.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: Figure 14: Dell Active System 800m Maximum 2 Rack Component Overview 2x R620 Management Cluster 1x 17FP KMM S55 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 ACT er Mast PSU1 FAN1 42 42 42 42 41 41 41 40 40 40 39 39 39 39 38 38 38 38 37 37 37 37 36 36 36 36 35 35 35 35 34 34 34 34 33 33 33 33
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 10 References 10.1 Dell PowerEdge Server Documentation and Hardware/Software Updates For drivers and other downloads: Visit http://support.dell.com, click ―Start Here‖ for Enterprise IT, ―Select a product‖, then enter a server service tag or select the server model and operating system version. 10.2 Dell Force10 Switch Documentation and Firmware Updates Visit http://support.dell.
Reference Architecture for Active System 800m with Hyper-V: 10.5 Microsoft® Hyper-V Documentation Windows Server 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh801901 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Whitepaper http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/B/5DB1C7BF-6286-4431-A244438D4605DB1D/WS%202012%20White%20Paper_Hyper-V.pdf. Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831579 10.6 Microsoft® Management Software Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1: http://www.
