VCE Vblock™ System 720 Gen 4.1 Architecture Overview Revision history www.vce.com VCE Vblock™ System 720 Gen 4.1 Architecture Overview Document revision 4.3 June 2013 © 2013 VCE Company, LLC. © 2013 VCE Company,1 LLC. All Rights Reserved. All Rights Reserved. Revision history VCE Vblock™ System 720 Gen 4.1 Architecture Overview Revision history Date Vblock Document Author Description of changes System revision February Gen 4.0 4.0 Julie Gen 4.0 release 2013 Hamm March 2013 Gen 4.0 4.1 Julie Updated for VCE rebranding Hamm April 2013 Gen 4.1 4.2 Julie • Added VCE Vision™ Intelligent Hamm Operations • Updated VMware vSphere information • Integrated into the Gen 4.1 release June 2013 Gen 4.1 4.3 Julie Updated the bare metal support policy Hamm 2 © 2013 VCE Company, LLC. All Rights Reserved. VCE Vblock™ System 720 Gen 4.1 Architecture Overview Table of contents Table of contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Accessing VCE documentation ................................................................................................................. 7 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 Vblock™ System 720 overview .............................................................................................................. 8 Base configurations and scaling ........................................................................................................... 11 Connectivity overview ........................................................................................................................... 13 Segregated and unified network architecture ................................................................................ 13 Segregated network architecture .......................................................................................................... 14 Block storage configuration ............................................................................................................ 14 SAN boot storage configuration ..................................................................................................... 15 Unified storage configuration ......................................................................................................... 16 Unified network architecture ................................................................................................................. 17 Block storage configuration ............................................................................................................ 17 SAN boot storage configuration ..................................................................................................... 18 Unified storage configuration ......................................................................................................... 19 Aggregating multiple Vblock Systems .................................................................................................. 20 Aggregation common services ....................................................................................................... 22 Compute layer hardware .......................................................................................................................... 25 Compute overview ................................................................................................................................ 25 Cisco Unified Computing System ......................................................................................................... 27 Cisco Unified Computing System fabric interconnects......................................................................... 28 Scaling up compute resources ............................................................................................................. 28 Blade packs .................................................................................................................................... 28 Chassis activation kits (CAK) ......................................................................................................... 29 VCE bare metal support policy ............................................................................................................. 29 Storage layer hardware ............................................................................................................................ 30 Storage overview .................................................................................................................................. 30 EMC Symmetrix VMAX 40K Series storage arrays .............................................................................. 31 Supported drives ............................................................................................................................ 32 EMC Symmetrix VMAX 20K Series storage arrays .............................................................................. 33 Supported drives ............................................................................................................................ 34 EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K Series storage arrays .............................................................................. 34 Supported drives ............................................................................................................................ 36 EMC Data at Rest Encryption ........................................................................................................ 36 (Optional) EMC RecoverPoint Appliance ............................................................................................. 37 EMC VNX VG2 Gateway and EMC VNX VG8 Gateway ...................................................................... 38 Scaling up storage resources ............................................................................................................... 39 © 2013 VCE Company, LLC. 3 All Rights Reserved. Table of contents VCE Vblock™ System 720 Gen 4.1 Architecture Overview RAID packs .................................................................................................................................... 39 Storage cabinet .............................................................................................................................. 41 DAE packs ..................................................................................................................................... 42 Engines .......................................................................................................................................... 42 Storage features support ...................................................................................................................... 42 vStorage APIs for Array Integration ............................................................................................... 42 File deduplication ........................................................................................................................... 43 External NFS and CIFS access ..................................................................................................... 43 Network layer hardware ............................................................................................................................ 44 Network overview ................................................................................................................................. 44 Network layer components ................................................................................................................... 44 Switching components ................................................................................................................... 45 Network layer components ............................................................................................................ 45 Virtualization components ....................................................................................................................... 48 Virtualization overview .......................................................................................................................... 48 VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi ....................................................................................................... 48 Cluster configuration ...................................................................................................................... 48 Datastores ...................................................................................................................................... 49 Virtual networks .............................................................................................................................. 49 VMware vCenter Server ....................................................................................................................... 49 Databases ...................................................................................................................................... 50 Authentication ................................................................................................................................ 50 VCE supported features ................................................................................................................. 51 Management components .......................................................................................................................