Reference Configuration; Figure 1 - San Test Bed Configuration - Avaya VSP 9000 Technical Configuration Manual

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2. Reference configuration

Figure 1 shows a sample storage area network (SAN) configuration with an VSP 9000, five PC servers
and two Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series storage appliances. All communication between these devices is
over 10 GbE links in a layer two topology. All of the 10 GbE connections use SFP+ connectors with
multimode fiber.
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Coraid recommends that you isolate the SAN from other network traffic.
To verify data integrity and measure the performance of the Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series storage
appliances, the Avaya Data Solutions Test Lab used the Open Source software, Vdbench. Vdbench is a
disk and tape I/O workload generator for directly attached and network connected storage devices.
For Vdbench downloads and documentation, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdbench/.
Figure 1 – SAN test bed configuration
VSP 9000 with Coraid EtherDrive SRX-Series
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