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Dell Networking S6000
High-performance 10/40 GbE Top-of-rack Switch
Hands-on Testing Verifies Excellent End-User QoE and
Substantial Scalability in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Environment
Miercom Lab Testing Report
August 2013
Report 130815

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  • Page 1 Dell Networking S6000 High-performance 10/40 GbE Top-of-rack Switch Hands-on Testing Verifies Excellent End-User QoE and Substantial Scalability in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Environment Miercom Lab Testing Report August 2013 Report 130815...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    4.0 VMware Horizon View Desktop Virtualization Solution ............7  5.0 Test Bed: Leaf Spine Switching Fabric ................... 7  5.1 About the Dell Networking S6000 Switch ................8  5.2 About the Dell Networking S5000 Switch ................9  6.0 End-user Quality of Experience and Scalability Testing ............9 ...

  • Page 3: Key Findings

    High-performance, top-of rack/end-of-row S6000 switch exhibits high degree of scalability by easily transmitting traffic at line rate with low latency and no loss  S6000 was not a limitation to scalability in a VDI environment; VMware Horizon View server CPU and memory resources were limitations ...

  • Page 4: Equipment Used In Testing

    Contact reviews@miercom.com for additional details on the configurations applied to the system under test and test tools used in this evaluation. Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright  2013 Miercom Page 4 23August2013...

  • Page 5: Vdi Topology Test Diagram

    2.1 VDI Topology Test Diagram Source: Miercom, August 2013 A leaf spine fabric, two spine Dell S6000 switches and two leaf Dell S5000 switches connected via Dell proprietary protocol Virtual Link Trunking, was used to assess Quality of Experience for 200 users and scalability to 10,000 users in a VDI environment.

  • Page 6: Hardware And Software Featured In Testing

    Operating System for VMware Horizon View Clients (R710) LoginVSI Agent version 3.7 View Client Launcher Stratusphere UX 5.3.1 End-user QoE Testing, Desktop Monitoring Tool WildPackets OmniPeek End-user QoE Testing, Network Analyzer Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright  2013 Miercom Page 6 23August2013...

  • Page 7: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Vdi) Environment

    5.0 Test Bed: Leaf Spine Switching Fabric The heart of the test bed was a leaf spine switching fabric of high-performance Dell 10/40 Ethernet switches. It was used to evaluate the ability of the Dell S6000 switch in a virtual desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment to provide...

  • Page 8: About The Dell Networking S6000 Switch

    Figure 1: S6000 VDI Solution Design, Virtualized Data Center Source: Dell, August 2013 In a virtualized data center deployment, VLT and mVLT enable the Dell Networking S6000 to serve as a Layer 2 core or aggregation switch. Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright ...

  • Page 9: About The Dell Networking S5000 Switch

    5.2 About the Dell Networking S5000 Switch The Dell Networking S5000 is a Layer 2 and Layer 3 10/40 unified storage switch. Two S5000s were the leaf switches in the leaf spine test infrastructure that evaluated QoS and scalability of the S6000 in a VDI environment.
  • Page 10 S5000 switches were connected to each vSphere (R720) and spine (S6000) server. A 1G, Layer 3 management switch was connected to a S6000 server and all three Horizon View servers (Client Host, Management Host and Infrastructure Host). It provided a management VLAN for all end nodes housing the servers.
  • Page 11 “Low resolution” was XGA (Extended Graphics Array), a high-resolution video display mode that provides screen pixel resolution of 1,024 x 768 in 256 colors or 640 x 480 in high (16-bit) color. Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright  2013 Miercom...
  • Page 12 The end-user experience of all 203 virtual users was rated as fully satisfactory by Stratusphere UX. A S6000 switch was the backbone of a subnet on which all 203 users ran concurrently. Figure 3: Login VSI Simulates Realistic Desktop Activity of 203 Virtual Users...
  • Page 13 XGA (1,024 x 768). Subjective evaluation by Stratusphere UX rated the experience of all end users as best. Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright  2013 Miercom Page 13 23August2013...
  • Page 14 ESXi hypervisor, is below. The graphics show server resources consumed. During testing, it became apparent that the S6000 was not a limitation to VDI scalability. The limitations were the VMware Horizon View server CPU and memory resources.

  • Page 15: Vdi Scalability Tests (10,000 Users)

    2vCPU and 3GB RAM. Thus, Miercom projected prior to testing that in order to accommodate a virtual desktop environment of 10,000 Power Users (standard), the S6000 would have to maintain at least 20 Gbps of traffic.
  • Page 16 The distribution of frame sizes of VDI traffic handled by the S6000 is shown below. Because the VMware default frame size is 1300 bytes, the frame size of 1024-1518 is the largest portion of the pie chart that shows distribution of traffic by frame size.
  • Page 17 QoE transaction traffic. Using seven of the 10 GbE ports, the capacity of the S6000 was verified to be 63.2 Gbps of fully meshed traffic at 99.5% line rate with low latency. The distribution of frame sizes was similar to that in QoE testing.

  • Page 18: Bottom Line

    GbE rack and blade servers. As the maximum speed in the network core continues to climb toward 40 Gbps, the S6000 is ready now with 32 ports of 40 GbE, which can be configured as 96 ports of 10 GbE and eight additional ports of 40 GbE.
  • Page 19 Device Under Test and test tools used in this evaluation. Miercom recommends customers conduct their own needs analysis study and test specifically for the expected environment for product deployment before making a product selection. Dell Networking S6000 Switch DR130815 Copyright  2013 Miercom...

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