Dell PowerVault 3000i User Manual

September 2007 Storage Consolidation with the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI Storage By Dave Jaffe Dell Enterprise Technology Center and Ken

September 2007 Page 10 Dell Enterprise Technology Center The backend SQL Server database used for the web serving application also used the Large v

September 2007 Page 11 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 5 The Storage Consolidation Simulation The lab setup used in the 8-hour simulatio

September 2007 Page 12 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Figure 7: Symantec Backup Exec Screen Shot The performance of the 5 servers over the 8

September 2007 Page 13 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Server/Workload Total Work in 8-hour Simulation Total Transferred (GB) r3win1955a1 Excha

September 2007 Page 14 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 6 Conclusions The PowerVault MD3000i is a cost effective, simple to manage iSCS

September 2007 Page 2 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Contents Executive Summary ...

September 2007 Page 3 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 1 Executive Summary To demonstrate the effectiveness of the PowerVault MD3000i in

September 2007 Page 4 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 2 Introduction Customers continue to look for cost effective ways to streamline th

September 2007 Page 5 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 3 The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i The PowerVault MD3000i Modular Disk Storage Array

September 2007 Page 6 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Disks Available 15K SAS drives available in 36GB1, 73GB, 146GB or 300GB 10K SAS drives ava

September 2007 Page 7 Dell Enterprise Technology Center disks as well as current storage array status. The array name and IP address of the managem

September 2007 Page 8 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Figure 5: Modular Disk Storage Manager Host Topology Screen

September 2007 Page 9 Dell Enterprise Technology Center Section 4 The Servers and their Workloads In this section the five separate servers whose