Evaluation Guide Environment Setup - VMware VS4-STD-C - vSphere Standard - PC Evaluation Manual

Evaluation Guide Environment Setup

The VMware Technical Marketing lab was built using a combination of Cisco UCS server hardware and EMC
CLARiiON CX-4 Fibre Channel (FC) storage. The environment consisted of eight identical four-node "pods," with
most pods configured as a three-node ESXi cluster and a fourth node for management. In many cases,
additional resources have been configured in the Technical Marketing test-bed configuration to support other
evaluation projects, and are present in the diagrams. The user can configure only what is called for in the
following section and can safely ignore additional resources in screen shots and topology diagrams. The
following picture shows the Technical Marketing test rack.
VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide –
EMC CLARiiON CX4-120
Flare version 4.30.000.5.509
15x 600GB 15k SCSI
5x 200GB SSD
10x open slots
Cisco UCS 1.3.1(p)
32x Dual Quad-Core "Nahalem" Proccessors
48GB Memory
Dual port Palo cards
1x 146GB Local HDD
Configure with:
4x 10GB network adaptors
2x 4/8GB HBAs
Slot 1 of each chassis reserved for core management
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Volume One