Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter 1.6 User Manual

Release 1.0 for Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Blade Servers, Dell Force10 Switches, and Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN with Dell Active System Ma

Page 7  Remote Services are standards-based interfaces that enable consoles to integrate, for example, bare-metal provisioning and one-to-many O

Page 8 PowerEdge™ servers — Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller — to enable agent-free remote management

Page 9 management traffic. The PS6110 Series 10GbE arrays can use Data Center Bridging (DCB) to improve Ethernet quality of service and greatly re

Page 10 3.11 Dell Cloud Connectivity using VMware vCloud Connector VMware vCloud Connector lets you view, operate on, and transfer your computing

Page 11 8. Power, Cooling, and Weight Considerations: Active System 800v solution is configured with Power Distribution Units (PDUs) to meet the

Page 12 The figure shows high-level logical connectivity between various components. Subsequent sections of this document provide more detailed co

Page 13 7 Converged Network Architecture One of the key attributes of the Active System 800v is the convergence of SAN and LAN over the same netw

Page 14  Connectivity between the Dell PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator and Force10 S4810 switches: The two PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator modules are con

Page 15 Figure 4: Converged Network Logical Connectivity 7.2 Converged Network Configuration This section provides details of the different confi

Page 16 Broadcom NDCs in the PowerEdge M620 blade servers, and the EqualLogic PS6110 storage controllers. The DCB settings are not propagated to t

Active System 800v with VMware vSphere: Reference Architecture Page ii This document is for informational purposes only and may

Page 17 connecting bridge or server. Both links from the bridge network can actively forward and receive traffic. VLT provides a replacement for S

Page 18 Table 2: VLAN Overview Traffic Type (VLAN segregation) Description Associated Network Device Management vSphere management traffic an

Page 19 Figure 6: vSwitch and NPAR Configuration for the Hypervisor Hosts

Page 20 Load Balancing and Failover: This solution uses Route based on the originating virtual switch port ID configuration at the vSwitch for loa

Page 21 It is important to include space for the guest operating system memory cache, snapshots, and VMware configuration files when sizing these

Page 22 As storage I/O requests are generated on the ESXi hosts, the MEM plug-in will intelligently route these requests to the array member best

Page 23 Figure 7: Management Components The remainder of this section will provide an introduction to each component and how they are integrated

Page 24 Availability service. OME utilized a local SQL Express database. For fullest functionality, direct internet access, or through a proxy, is

Page 25 9.5 Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) for VMware Within Active System 800v, the Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager (VSM)

Page 26  Formatted reports, graphs and archives: Customizable reports and graphs are available on performance, capacity utilization and trending

Active System 800v with VMware vSphere: Reference Architecture Page iii Revision History Revision Description A00 Initial Version

Page 27 configuration can be added to the existing PS 6110 arrays. New volumes can be created or existing volumes can be expanded to utilize the c

Page 28 Figure 8: Active System 800v Single Chassis: Rack Overview

Page 29 Figure 9: Active System 800v Two Chassis and Maximum Storage: Rack Overview

Page 30 12 Reference Dell Active Infrastructure reference:  Dell Active System Manager  Dell Active Infrastructure Wiki VMware references: 

Page 1 Contents 1 Introduction ... 2 2 Au

Page 2 1 Introduction Dell Active Infrastructure is a family of converged infrastructure solutions that combine servers, storage, networking, an

Page 3 EqualLogic Storage, as illustrated in Figure 1. Readers can skip the sections of products with which they are familiar. Figure 1: Active Sy

Page 4 Table 1 below describes the key solution components and the roles served. Table 1: Solution Components Component Details Hypervisor Server

Page 5  VMware vCenter Update Manager: VMware vCenter Update Manager automates patch management, enforcing compliance to patch standards for VMw

Page 6 local configuration), six hot-pluggable/redundant power supplies, and nine hot-pluggable N+1 redundant fan modules. Blade Servers: The Powe