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- HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 1
HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virtualization Deployment Executive Summary ...2 HP StorageWorks MPX200 Architecture 2 Server Virtualization and SAN based Storage 3 VMware Architecture...3 MPX200 iSCSI Solutions for Traditional VMware Virtualized Environment 3 HP StorageWorks - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 2
limitation results in lack of scalability, flexibility, and causes the following problems for storage administrators: Every application has the potential to be the Fibre Channel SAN investment with integrated multi-protocol support, allowing customers to incorporate iSCSI servers without requiring - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 3
iSCSI. Scalability up to 600 iSCSI initiators on the iSCSI side with architectural support up to 1024 iSCSI initiators. Up to 4 EVAs can be connected , the hypervisor centrally manages all the hardware details and provides services to VMs. In addition, within the virtualized environment, the VM - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 4
and data on the VM are configured in a native file system of the guest OS created on the RDM. While the VMs benefit from VMFS services, as per the application demand, the MPX200 solution provides many individual devices (Vdisks) to those VMs. The MPX200 provides more ESX server connectivity and high - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 5
the array side. Therefore, enough array host connections were not available for every virtual machine on every physical platform. For example, one hypervisor can support up to 35 hosts. Typical cases have 8 to 12 virtual machines on one hypervisor. A mid-sized array would run out of host connections - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 6
volume extent and the VMFS file system is created. The number of Vdisks in the pool can be one Vdisk or many Vdisks. Because MPX200 supports many Vdisks, it provides more options to pool Vdisks and present them to the ESX servers. 1. You can choose a large single Vdisk and configure VMFS - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 7
number of shared resources; leading to high performance VMs. This also leads to simplification of VM management because a larger number of disks are supported in the MPX200 EVA iSCSI solution to allow individual disks for every VM. This option allows a maximum of 512 high-performing virtual machines - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 8
Figure 3: Implementation Option 2 The physical EVA Vdisks volume is configured as the RDM volume. In this option, only one Vdisk is used to create the RDM volume. Thus, RDM A is created on Vdisk D1, RDM B is created on Vdisk D2, and RDM C is created on Vdisk D3. VM1 is installed in RDM A, VM2 in RDM - HP StorageWorks 8100 | HP StorageWorks MPX200 - Simplified Cost-Effective Virt - Page 9
consumed by the virtual machines. With architectural support for over 1024 iSCSI initiators per MPX200, , see the HP StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide available at: http://www.hp.com/go/ services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services.
Executive Summary
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HP StorageWorks MPX200 Architecture
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Server Virtualization and SAN based Storage
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VMware Architecture
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MPX200 iSCSI Solutions for Traditional VMware Virtualized Environment
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HP StorageWorks MPX200 Solution
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improved implementation methods for VMware
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Implementation Option 1
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Implementation Option 2
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HP StorageWorks MPX200 Benefits
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Conclusion
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For more information
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HP StorageWorks MPX200
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