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ABOUT VCE

VCE, the Virtual Computing

Environment formed by Cisco

and EMC with investments

from VMware and Intel,

accelerates the adoption of

converged infrastructure and

cloud-based computing

models that dramatically

reduce the cost of IT while

improving time to market for

our customers. VCE, through

the Vblock platform, delivers

the industry's first completely

integrated IT offering with

end-to-end vendor account-

ability. VCE's prepackaged

solutions are available

through an extensive partner

network, and cover horizontal

applications, vertical industry

offerings, and application

development environments,

allowing customers to focus

on business innovation

instead of integrating,

validating and managing

IT infrastructure.

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TECHNICAL REFERENCE GUIDE

Why Virtualize the Data Center?

Virtualization extended to applications, operating systems,

and aggregated resources throughout the enterprise is

the key to realizing the benefits of the private cloud.

It results in lower capital expenditures, reduced operating

costs, and increased power and cooling efficiencies.

What Problems Need to Be Solved?

Today’s businesses require an IT infrastructure that can

be easily acquired, deployed and scaled so that they can

deliver IT resources to end users faster, more reliably,

and at a lower cost.

VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms

Vblock Infrastructure Platforms are pre-engineered,

tested, and validated units of IT infrastructure that have

defined performance, capacity, and availability

characteristics. Vblock Infrastructure Platforms allow

customers to accelerate innovation, increase IT agility and

improve time-to-value using repeatable, proven

methodologies. This unique innovative solution allows

businesses to deploy a virtual infrastructure and

accelerate the migration to the private cloud while

increasing IT agility and simplifying IT operations.

Why VCE?

Here’s how VCE can help customers/partners make the

most of data center virtualization:

A Strategic Partner: VCE offers the combined expertise

of three industry leaders - Cisco, EMC, and VMware.

The three companies have collaborated to develop

Vblock Infrastructure Platforms so businesses can

experience the benefits of virtualization and the private

cloud.

Integrated Approach: With its total integrated approach,

Vblock Infrastructure Platforms from VCE provide ease of

management and take the complexities out of managing

independent compute, networking, storage and

virtualization environments.

Investment Protection: The Vblock Platforms

architecture allows for easy expansion as IT needs

increase. This allows businesses to add more devices

while maintaining their infrastructure investment.

Seamless Support: VCE offers a unique, seamless

support experience. Customers can access support

through a single contact point that connects them directly

to a team of VCE technical support experts.

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Summary of Vblock Platform Components

This table provides a summary of recommended Vblock platform components. For details on components and options, see

the Vblock Platform Configuration Details tables later in this document.

Vblock platform Vblock 0 Vblock 1 Vblock 1U Vblock Series 700 model MX

Market Data center deployments that need a basic virtualized environment with some scalability and a reasonable performance envelope.

Data center deployments that need a virtualized environment with good scalability and a balanced performance envelope.

Data center deployments that need a virtualized environment with good scalability, unified storage and a balanced performance envelope.

Data center deployments that need high scalability with excellent performance characteristics.

Compute Environment .Cisco UCS system with B200/B230/B250/B440 blade options. Various choices of cores/CPU/RAM

. Cisco UCS system with B200/B230/B250/B440 blade options. Various choices of cores/CPU/RAM



Network Environment . Cisco Nexus 1000V . Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches

. Cisco Nexus 1000V

. Cisco Nexus 5000/7000 Series Aggregation Switch . Cisco MDS 9000 Series SAN Switch

. Cisco Nexus 1000V

. Cisco Nexus 5000/7000 Series Aggregation Switches . FC modules on Nexus 5000

. Cisco Nexus 1000V

. Cisco Nexus 5000/7000 Series Aggregation Switches . Cisco MDS 9000 Series SAN Switch

Storage Environment EMC Celerra NS-120 with various disk configurations

EMC CLARiiON CX4-480 with various disk configurations

Choice of EMC Celerra NS-480 or EMC Celerra NS-960 with various disk configurations

EMC VMAX 2/4/6 or 8 engines with various disk configurations

Virtualization Environment

VMware vSphere 4 ESX/ESXi and vCenter




Management Environment

. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager

. EMC SMC or Unisphere

. EMC Ionix UIM

. (Optional) Advanced Management Pod (AMP) with a management switch (Cisco 4948), management router (Cisco 2921), and two management servers (Cisco UCS C series server)

. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM


. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM


. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM



Vblock platform Vblock Series 300 model EX Vblock Series 300 model FX Vblock Series 300 model GX Vblock Series 300 model HX

Market Data center deployments that need a basic virtualized environment with some scalability and a reasonable performance envelope.



Data center deployments that need a virtualized environment with good scalability, unified storage and a balanced performance envelope.

Compute Environment .Cisco UCS system with B200/B230/B250/B440 blade options. Various choices of cores/CPU/RAM




Network Environment . Cisco Nexus 1000V . Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches

. Cisco Nexus 1000V


. Cisco Nexus 1000V


. Cisco Nexus 1000V

. Cisco Nexus 5000/7000 Series Aggregation Switches . FC modules on Nexus 5000

Storage Environment EMC VNX 5300 with various disk configurations

EMC VNX 5500 with various disk configurations



Virtualization Environment





Management Environment

. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM


. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM


. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM


. VMware vCenter

. Cisco UCS Manager


. EMC Ionix UIM



What does a Vblock look like? Note: VNX diagrams are not available at this time, but this document will be updated to include them once they are available.

Vblock 0 Vblock 1 Vblock 1U

Vblock Series 700 model MX Single aggregation rack Double aggregation rack


Vblock 0 Configuration Details

(Continued on next page)

Component Base Configuration Options Fully-Upgraded Configuration

Virtualization

Hypervisor vSphere 4 ESX/ESXi (Licensed per CPU)

Virtualization Management

vCenter

Virtual Network Switch

Nexus 1000V (Licensed per CPU)

Compute

Chassis UCS5108 C2 compute base (2 chassis and 2x6120 FI)

Hard Disk Drive: • 73GB with 15K RPM (default) • 146 GB with 10K RPM • 300GB with 10K RPM B230 blades do not support local hard disk drives (HDD). Solid-state drives (SSD) are supported

Up to 8 Full width Blades or 16 Half-width Blades

Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120

Blade (choices) B200M2 X5670 (12-cores), 48GB B200M2 X5680 (12-cores), 96GB

(1 Blade pack = 4 blades, 2 Blade packs minimum) B250M2 X5670 (12-cores), 192GB

B250M2 X5680 (12-cores), 384GB

B440M1 X7550 (32-cores), 128GB B440M1 X7560 (32-cores), 256GB


Adapter M81KR mezzanine cards 1 or 2 per Blade* 16 mezzanine cards

UCS Manager Included

Network Access/Aggregation switch

Nexus 5010 with Storage Services license Two

Storage

Celerra NS-120 Vault FC 450GB 15K RAID5 4+1

Boot: Local SAN RAID Group Tier 2

Tier 1 (T1): EFD One RAID5 4+1 using either 100GB , 200GB

0 HDD Expansion in Group of 5 (1 RAID Group)

With Advanced Management POD (AMP) in the configuration - 5 DAEs or 75 drives Without AMP in the configuration - 7 DAEs or 105 drives

Tier 2 (T2): FC Two RAID5 4+1 using either 300 GB or 450GB or 600GB 15k disks

20+1 HS HDD Expansion in Group of 10 (2 RAID Groups)

Tier 3 (T3): SATA One RAID5 6+1 using either 1TB or 2TB 7.2k disks.

7+1 HS HDD Expansion in Group of 7 (1 RAID Group)

In general the base number of Tier 1, 2 and 3 drives using EFD, 450GB FC and 1TB SATA result in a 5% / 45% / 50% ratio between T1 / 2 / 3 which is a best practice ratio from EMC for typical workloads.

Software

NAS File Access – Unisphere NFS/CIFS - iSCSI

Fast Cache

SAN (exception only)

Unified – Unisphere NFS/CIFS – iSCSI Virtual Provisioning

Fast Cache / Advanced Fast Suite

PowerPath-VE required for any Block Storage Access (iSCSI or FC)


Vblock 0 Configuration Details (continued)


Management

Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (licensed per blade) VMware vCenter Cisco UCS Manager EMC SMC or Unisphere

Advanced Management POD (AMP) with a management switch (Cisco 4948), management router (Cisco 2921), and two management servers (Cisco UCS C series server)

Rack APC Netshelter 3350 with two APC 7899 PDUs – requires two CS8365 connectors; 50A 3-phase 250V AC (3 Pole, 4 Wire grounding). Plug is a Hubbell CS8365C


Vblock 1 Configuration Details


Virtualization

Hypervisor vSphere 4 ESX/ESXi

Virtualization Management vCenter

Virtual Network Switch Nexus 1000v with per CPU License

Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 C4 compute base (4 chassis, 2x6120 Fabric Interconnect) OR CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) + CE compute expansion (4 chassis) Two 8-port 4G FC/Expansion modules on Fabric Interconnect

Ability to grow beyond 32 blade slots: CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) with CE compute expansion (4 chassis) depending on number of blade slots Hard Disk Drive: • 73GB with 15K RPM (default) • 146 GB with 10K RPM • 300GB with 10K RPM B230 blades do not support local hard disk drives (HDD). Solid-state drives (SSD) are supported

Up to 32 Full width Blades or 64 Half-width Blades Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140


1 Blade pack = 4 blades, 2 Blade packs minimum)




Adapter M81KR mezzanine cards 1 or 2 per Blade* Up to 64 mezzanine cards


Network

Access/Aggregation switch Nexus 5020 Pair Nexus 7010 Pair – Supervisor,32 Port 10GbE module (80G Fabric), 48 Port 10/100/1000 module

Storage

SAN switch MDS 9148 (48-PORT 8GB FC switch 16 active ports) with C4 compute or CB compute

Two MDS 9506 chassis for high-density fabric configuration /advanced storage services Four 1/2/4/8-GBPS 24-PORT FC modules , 2 SUP-2 modules

32 ports with standard configuration Custom configuration allowed (if RecoverPoint is added, then more ports are needed - depends on replication cluster – minimum 4 ports on each fabric)



Vblock1 Configuration Details (continued)


Storage

CLARiiON CX4-480 Vault FC 450GB 15K RAID5 4+1

Boot: 300GB 15K FC w/ RAID-5 4+1 protection

2 RAID groups (10 drives)

Boot upgrade (20GB boot LUNs for 32 ESX/ESXi hosts per group) Min upgrade 1 RAID group (multiples of 5 drives)

32 20GB boot LUNs maximum

Tier1: EFD 100/200GB w/ RAID-5 4+1 protection

Base: Zero T1 RAID groups

Min upgrade 1 RAID group (multiples of 5 drives) Fast Cache options (> 11 IOPS per VM): 5 x 73GB FLASH 5 x 100GB FLASH 9 x 200GB FLASH (4,4,8 - HS not needed if already configured for that tier- > Global hot spares)

2 racks / 25 DAEs / 375 drives (depending on drive type mixture)

Tier2: FC 300/450/600GB 15K w/ RAID-5 4+1 protection

Base:10 T2 RAID groups (50 drives + 5 Vault + 2 HS)

Min upgrade 6 RAID groups (multiples of 30 drives)

Tier3: 1TB/2TB 7.2K SATA w/ RAID-5 6+1 protection

Base:3 T3 RAID groups (21 drives + 1 HS)

Min upgrade 3 RAID groups (multiples of 21 drives)

Software Unisphere Mgr, Virtual Provisioning

PowerPath for Virtual Environment Advanced FAST Suite, FAST Cache

Management



Rack

Compute APC Netshelter 3350 with two APC 7866A PDUs – requires two IEC 309 connectors; 60A 3-phase 208V AC (3 Pole, 4 Wire grounding). Plug is a Hubble 460P9W

Aggregate APC Netshelter 3350 with two APC 7899 PDUs – requires two CS8365 connectors; 50A 3-phase 250V AC (3 Pole, 4 Wire grounding) Plug is a Hubbell CS8365C

Storage CLARiiON Rack with two L6-30 connectors; Single-phase 200-240V AC


Vblock1U Configuration Detail


Virtualization




Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 C4 compute base (4 chassis, 2x6120 Fabric Interconnect) OR CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) + CE compute expansion (4 chassis) Two 8-port 4G FC/Expansion modules on Fabric Interconnect (for Hybrid configuration)

Ability to grow beyond 32 blade slots: CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) with CE compute expansion (4 chassis) depending on number of blade slots Hard Disk Drives (for NAS only): • 73GB with 15K RPM (default) • 146 GB with 10K RPM • 300GB with 10K RPM B230 blades do not support local hard disk drives (HDD). Solid-state drives (SSD) are supported

Up to 32 Full width Blades or 64 Half-width Blades

Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140

Blade (Recommended choices) (Mix of CPUs/Mem/Local HDD supported)








Network

Access/Aggregation switch Two Nexus 5020 including storage services license for NAS + additional Four 8-port 4GB FC modules for Nexus 5020 additional for Hybrid configuration

Nexus 7010 Pair – Supervisor,32 Port 10GbE module (80G Fabric – Dedicated Port Mode) ,48 Port 10/100/1000 module



Vblock1U Configuration Details (continued)


Storage (VB1U-480 and VB1U-960)

In general, the base number of Tier 1, 2 and 3 drives using EFD, 450GB FC and 1TB SATA result in a 5% / 45% / 50% ratio between T1 / 2 / 3 which is a best practice ratio from EMC for typical workloads.


Standard configuration 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 (active-standby) cluster config + space for in-rack upgrade to 4 DMs 4 8Gb FC host attach ports per SP + 2 optical 10Gbe ports & 2 copper 1Gbe ports per DM 1 CLARiiON rack including 10 DAEs, CX4-480 & SPs

NAS-only or Hybrid NAS/SAN 2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 4 x/6x/8x-blades)

Boot (not required if NAS-only & local boot): 300GB 15K FC w/ RAID-5 4+1 protection

2 RAID groups (10 drives) Boot upgrade (20GB boot LUNs for 32 ESX/ESXi hosts per group) Min upgrade 1 RAID group (multiples of 5 drives) T1:Min upgrade 1 RAID group (multiples of 5 drives) T2:Min upgrade 6 RAID groups (multiples of 30 drives) T3:Min upgrade 3 RAID groups (multiples of 21 drives) Fast Cache options (> 11 IOPS per VM): 5 x 73GB FLASH 5 x 100GB FLASH 9 x 200GB FLASH

32 20GB boot LUNs maximum

Tier1: EFD 100/200GB w/ RAID-5 4+1 protection

Base: Zero T1 RAID groups 2 racks / 23 DAEs / 345 drives (depending on drive type mixture)


Base:10 T2 RAID groups (50 drives + 5 Vault + 2 HS)


Base:3 T3 RAID groups (21 drives + 1 HS)


Standard configuration 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 (active-standby) cluster configuration + a DME for in-rack expansion to 4 DMs 8 8Gb FC host attach ports, 4 optical 10Gbe ports per X-Blade 1 CLARiiON rack including 7 DAEs, CX4-960 & SPs

NAS-only or Hybrid NAS/SAN 2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 4 x/6x/8x-blades)

Similar Boot , T1, T2, T3 configuration as NS-480 Similar options as NS-480 32 20GB boot LUNs maximum 4 racks / 46 DAEs / 690 drives (depending on drive type mixture)

Software NAS Unisphere for File, CIFS/NFS/iSCSI FAST Cache

SAN If native FC added - Unisphere for Unified / Virtual Provisioning PowerPath for Virtual Environment (for Block configurations)

Advanced FAST Suite, FAST Cache

Management





Vblock 1U Configuration Details (continued)

Component Base Configuration

Options Fully-Upgraded Configuration

Rack





Vblock Series 700 model MX Configuration Details


Virtualization



vCenter


Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 C4 compute base (4 chassis, 2x6120 Fabric Interconnect) OR CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) + optional CE compute expansion (4 chassis) Two or Four 8-port 4G FC/Expansion modules on Fabric Interconnect

Ability to grow beyond 32 blade slots: CB compute base (4 chassis, 2x6140 Fabric Interconnect) with CE compute expansion (4 chassis) depending on number of blade slots Hard Disk Drive: • 73GB with 15K RPM (default) • 146 GB with 10K RPM • 300GB with 10K RPM B230 blades do not support local hard disk drives (HDD). Solid-state drives (SSD) are supported

Up to 32 Full width Blades or 64 Half-width Blades Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140

Blade (Recommended Choices) (Mix of CPUs/Mem/Local HDD supported)









Nexus 7010 Pair – Supervisor,32 Port 10GbE module (80G Fabric) ,48 Port 10/100/1000 module

Nexus 5020 Pair

Storage

SAN switch MDS 9148 (48-PORT 8GB FC switch 16 active ports) with C4 compute or CB compute

Two MDS 9506 chassis for high-density fabric configuration /advanced storage services , Four 1/2/4/8-GBPS 24-PORT FC modules , 2 SUP-2 modules

32 ports with standard configuration (More ports might be needed for custom configuration. Like for RecoverPoint depending upon replication cluster 4 ports minimum on each fabric needed)

16 Port Upgrade for MDS 9148 with CE expansion

Two



Vblock Series 700 model MX Configuration Details (continued)


Storage

In general, the base number of Tier 1, 2 and 3 drives using EFD, 450GB FC and 1TB SATA result in a 5% / 45% / 50% ratio between T1 / 2 / 3 which is a best practice ratio from EMC for typical workloads.

VMAX

VMAX engines 2 engine , 4 engine , 6 engine or 8 engine VMAX

1 engine available by exception

Boot: 300/450/600GB 15K Dense Cfg FC w/ RAID-5 3+1 protection

Tier1: 200 /400GB EFD w/ RAID-5 3+1 protection

2/4/6/8 Engine/: Zero T1 RAID groups T1:Min upgrade 1 RAID-5 3+1 group (4 drives), Hot Spare (1 per 100 drives) T2:Min upgrade 16 RAID-5 3+1 group (64 drives) T3:Min upgrade 4 RAID-5 7+1 groups (32 drives) 2-engine upgrade (grow to 4-engines) Add 2 engines to System Bay/2 Storage Bays 2-engine upgrade (grow to 6 or 8-engines) Add 2 engines to System Bay/3 Storage Bays Populate new storage bays with 104 T2 drives (plus HS) min Populate new storage bays with 40 T3 drives (plus HS) min


2 Engine: 28 RAID-5 3+1 groups (112 drives + 4 HS) 4 Engine: 56 RAID-5 3+1 groups 6 Engine: 84 RAID-5 3+1 groups 8 Engine: 112 RAID-5 3+1 groups


2 Engine: 4 RAID-5 7+1 groups (32 drives + 4 HS) 4 Engine: 8 RAID-5 7+1 groups 6 Engine: 12 RAID-5 7+1 groups 8 Engine: 16 RAID-5 7+1 groups

Software SMC, SPA, FAST, Sym Migration, Virtual Provisioning PowerPath for Virtual Environment

Advanced FAST Suite, FAST Cache

Management



Rack



Storage VMAX Rack with two 50A 3-phase 250V AC (3 pole, 4 Wire grounding)


Vblock Series 300 model EX Configuration Detail



Virtualization

Hypervisor VMware ESXi 4.1 (Licensed per CPU)


vCenter

Virtual Network Switch

Nexus 1000v (Licensed per CPU)

Compute

Chassis UCS5108 2 Wired 5108 Chassis 2 6120 Fabric Interconnects (FI) Optics provided for all 40 ports / licenses provided for 16 base ports 4 FEXs with 4 connections to each FI from each 5108 8 PS (4 per chassis)

UCS Upgrade Blade Pack: 4 UCS blades 4 FI Port Licenses 4 Software License Packs: Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1

Max expansion to 2 full chassis Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120


(1 Blade pack = 4 blades, 1 Blade pack minimum) B230-M1 (4 max) B440-M1 (2 max)




Adapter M81KR mezzanine cards 1 or 2 per Blade* 16 mezzanine cards



Nexus 5010 with Storage Services license Two


Vblock Series 300 model EX Configuration Detail (continued)


Component

Storage

VNX 5300 BLOCK

Dual Storage Processors (SP) Standard SP config: 4-core 1.6GHz Intel Westmere CPU, 8GB of cache 4 10Gb FCoE ports OR 4 8Gb FC for block access 4 embedded 8Gb FC ports (2 FC ports replication/migration and 2 for X-Blade connections) 2 BE SAS buses (6Gb 4-lane) Dual Standby Power Supply (SPS) Min of 24 drives configured (Vault, no SAN boot, FAST Cache, no T1, 10 T2, 5 T3, 3 HS) Vault: 1 RAID group (4 drives) Boot: 1 RAID group – Supports 16 20GB boot LUNs max (optional local boot is supported for all NAS cfg) FAST Cache: 2x100GB EFD drives (100GB useable) plus HS T2: 2 RAID groups (Plus global HS to cover Vault & Boot) T3: 1 RAID group (Plus global HS)

FAST Cache Options 100 to 500GB in mirrored pairs of EFD drives T1 RAID Pack 1 RAID group T2 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more T3 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more

VNX 5300 Maximum Rack Growth: DPE + 6 DAEs / 105 drives (depending on drive type mixture, AMP integration, etc.)

VNX 5300 NAS

NAS personality in a base Vblock model is not required. 4U in rack is reserved for 1 DME (Data Mover Enclosure) and 2 CSs even if initial deployment is Block only. 2 Control Stations Standard X-Blade config: DME and 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 cluster plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing 1 4-core 2.13GHz Intel Westmere CPU with 6GB memory and up to 48TB storage per X-Blade 1 4p 8Gb FC SLIC per X-Blade (2p for BE connectivity / 2p for tape backup) 2 2p 10Gb Ethernet SLICs per X-Blade (FE NFS/CIFS/iSCSI connectivity)

No upgrades available

Software FAST Suite Local Protection Suite, Remote

Protection Suite, Application Protection Suite



Vblock Series 300 model EX Configuration Detail (continued)


Management



Software Base Software: Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1, PowerPath/VE 5.4 SP2

Rack APC Netshelter 3350 with two APC 7899 PDUs – requires two CS8365 connectors; 50A 3-phase 250V AC (3 Pole, 4 Wire grounding). Plug is a Hubbell CS8365C


Vblock Series 300 model FX Configuration Details



Virtualization




Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 Min config: 1 APC rack 2 6140 Fabric Interconnects Optics provided for all 80 ports / licenses provided for 16 base ports 2 Wired 5108 Chassis 4 FEXs with 4 connections to each FI from each 5108 8 PS (4 per chassis) 2 Dark 5108 Chassis Requires Chassis Activation Kits for use

Blade Pack: 4 UCS blades 4 FI Port Licenses 4 Software License Packs: Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1 Chassis Activation Kit – After first two chassis are full 2 FEX 4 PS Physical Installation Services (FEX to FI cabling)

Max expansion to CB (1 rack and 4 chassis) Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140


1 Blade pack = 4 blades, 1 Blade pack minimum) B230-M1 (16 max) B440-M1 (8 max)






Network

Access/Aggregation switch Network aggregation can be added to the Vblock regardless of whether a direct attach model is used for compute to storage interconnect Supported switches: Nexus 5548

Max expansion (IP): 1 switch per side

Storage SAN switch

Software


Vblock Series 300 model FX Configuration Details (Continued)


Storage

VNX 5500 BLOCK VNX 5500 NAS

Standard SP config: Dual SPs with a 4-core 2.13GHz Intel Westmere CPU and 12GB of cache per SP 8 8Gb FC ports OR 4 10Gb FCoE and 4 embedded 8Gb FC ports per SP (2 FC ports per SP rep/mig and 3 for X-Blade) If FCoE is chosen, there is only enough FE ports for 2 X-Blades 2 BE SAS buses (6Gb 4-lane) Dual SPS VNX5500 rack, 3 DAEs Min of 24 drives config’d (Vault, no SAN boot, FAST Cache, no T1, 10 T2, 5 T3, 3 HS) Vault: 1 RAID group (4 drives) Boot: 1 RAID group – Supports 32 20GB boot LUNs max (optional local boot is supported for all NAS cfg) FAST Cache: 2x100GB EFD drives (100GB useable) plus HS T2: 2 RAID groups (Plus global HS to cover Vault & Boot) T3: 3 RAID groups (Plus global HS) NAS personality in a base Vblock model is not required. 6U reserved for 2 DMEs (Data Mover Enclosure) and 2 CSs. Dual Control Stations Standard X-Blade config:

DME and 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 cluster plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing 1 4-core 2.13GHz Intel Westmere CPU with 12GB memory and up to 64TB storage per X-Blade 1 4p 8Gb FC SLIC per X-Blade (2p for BE connectivity / 2p for tape backup) 2 2p 10Gb Ethernet SLICs per X-Blade (FE NFS/CIFS/iSCSI connectivity)

FAST Cache Options 100 to 1,000GB in mirrored pairs EFD drives T1 RAID Pack 1 RAID group T2 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more T3 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more

Maximum Rack Growth: 2 racks / 16 DAEs / 250 drives (depending on drive type mixture) DPE + 9 DAEs in the first rack and 13 in each expansion rack

Max expansion to 3 X-Blades in a 2+1 cluster configuration

Software FAST Suite Advanced FAST Suite, FAST

Cache



Vblock Series 300 model FX Configuration Details (Continued)


Management


Local Protection Suite, Remote Protection Suite, Application Protection Suite

Software Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1, PowerPath/VE 5.4 SP2

Rack





Vblock Series 300 model GX Configuration Details


Virtualization




Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 1 APC rack 2 6140 Fabric Interconnects (1 6p 10g GEM w/ optics each Block / 2 6p 10g GEM w/ optics each Unified) Optics provided for all 80 ports / licenses provided for 16 base ports 2 Wired 5108 Chassis 4 FEXs with 4 connections to each FI from each 5108 8 PS (4 per chassis) 2 Dark 5108 Chassis Requires Chassis Activation Packs for use

Blade Pack - 4 UCS blades 4 FI Port Licenses 4 Software License Packs: Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1 Chassis Activation Kit – After first two chassis are full 2 FEX 4 PS Physical Installation Services (FEX to FI cabling) Expansion Rack (CE) 1 Rack 2 5108s preinstalled and enabled 2 5108s with no FEX and no PS

Max expansion to CB/CE (2 racks and 8 chassis) Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140








Network

Access/Aggregation switch Network aggregation can be added to the Vblock regardless of whether a direct attach model is used for compute to storage interconnect Supported switches: Nexus 5010,5020, 7010

Max expansion (IP): 1 switch per side

Storage

SAN switch SAN aggregation should be added to the Vblock only when a scale-out model for compute to storage interconnect is planned for up to 3 CB/CE and 3 arrays Supported switches: MDS 9506, 9509, 9513 Supported line cards: 24p, 18/4, 16p SSN

Maximum expansion FC: 2 fabrics with 1 switch per fabric

Software Fabric Mgr FMS, IOA, Link Encrypt, SAN Tap, Ent License, FCIP


Vblock Series 300 model GX Configuration Details (continued)


Storage

VNX 5700 BLOCK

Standard Storage Processor config: Dual SPs with a 4-core 2.4GHz Intel Westmere CPU and 18GB of cache per SP 12 8Gb FC FE ports OR Block-only 4 10Gb FCoE and 4 8Gb FC FE ports per SP (2 FC ports per SP dedicated for rep/mig) 4 6Gb BE 4-lane SAS buses per SP Dual Standby Power Supply (SPS) VNX5700 rack, 4 DAEs Min of 24 drives config’d (Vault, no SAN boot, FAST Cache, no T1, 10 T2, 5 T3, 3 HS) Vault: 1 RAID group (4 drives) Boot: 1 RAID group – Supports 32 20GB boot LUNs max (optional local boot is supported for all NAS cfg) FAST Cache: 2x100GB EFD drives (100GB useable) plus HS T2: 2 RAID groups (Plus global HS to cover Vault & Boot) T3: 1 RAID group (Plus global HS)

Boot upgrade (20GB boot LUNs for 32 ESX hosts max) Min upgrade 1 RAID group (5 drives) FAST Cache Options 100 to 1,400GB in mirrored pairs of EFD drives T1 RAID Pack 1 RAID group T2 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more T3 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more

Maximum Rack Growth: 3 racks / 34 DAEs / 500 drives (depending on drive type mixture and DAE model) 10 DAEs in the first rack and 13 in each expansion rack

VNX 5700 NAS

VNX5700 Base Configuration NAS personality in a base Vblock model is not required. 6U reserved for 2 DMEs (Data Mover Enclosure) and 2 CSs. Dual Control Stations Standard X-Blade config: DME and 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 cluster plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing 1 4-core 2.4GHz Intel Westmere CPU with 12GB memory and up to 96TB storage per X-Blade 1 4p 8Gb FC SLIC per X-Blade (2p for BE connectivity / 2p for tape backup) 2 2p 10Gb Ethernet SLICs per X-Blade (FE NFS/CIFS/iSCSI connectivity)

2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 4 x-blades) Add DME and 2 x-blades to VNX chassis plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing Migrate to a 3+1 (active-standby) cluster

Max expansion to 4 X-Blades in a 3+1 cluster configuration in pairs of 2 X-Blades

Software FAST Suite Advanced FAST Suite, FAST Cache



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Vblock Series 300 model HX Configuration Details


Virtualization




Compute

Chassis UCS 5108 Min config: 1 APC rack 2 6140 Fabric Interconnects 1 6p 10ge or 8g FC GEM w/ optics each for Block OR 2 6p 10g GEM w/ optics each Unified Optics provided for all 80 ports / licenses provided for 16 base ports 2 Wired 5108 Chassis 4 FEXs with 4 connections to each FI from each 5108 8 PS (4 per chassis) 2 Dark 5108 Chassis Requires Chassis Activation Packs for use

Blade Pack: 4 UCS blades 4 FI Port Licenses 4 Software License Packs: Cisco UCSM 1.4(1i), VMware ESXi 4.1, Nexus 1000v, UIM 2.0.1 Chassis Activation Kit – After first two chassis are full 2 FEX 4 PS Physical Installation Services (FEX to FI cabling) Expansion Rack (CE) 1 Rack 2 5108s preinstalled and enabled 2 5108s with no FEX and no PS

Max expansion to CB/CE (2 racks and 8 chassis) Fabric Interconnects UCS 6120 or UCS 6140









Storage SAN switch

Software



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Storage

VNX 7500 BLOCK

Standard Storage Processor config: Dual SPs with a 6-core 2.8GHz Intel Westmere CPU and 24GB of cache per SP 4 10Gb FCoE and 4 8Gb FC FE ports OR 12 8Gb FC FE ports per SP (2 FC ports per SP rep/mig and 4 for X-Blade) If FCoE is chosen, there is only enough FE ports for 2 X-Blades MAX 8 6Gb BE 4-lane SAS buses per SP Dual Standby Power Supply (SPS) VNX7500 rack, 8 DAEs Min of 24 drives config’d (Vault, no SAN boot, FAST Cache, no T1, 10 T2, 5 T3, 3 HS) Vault: 1 RAID group (4 drives) Boot: 1 RAID group – Supports 32 20GB boot LUNs max (optional local boot is supported for all NAS cfg) FAST Cache: 2x100GB EFD drives (100GB useable) plus HS T2: 2 RAID groups (Plus global HS to cover Vault & Boot) T3: 1 RAID group (Plus global HS)

Boot upgrade (20GB boot LUNs for 32 ESX hosts max) Min upgrade 1 RAID group (5 drives) FAST Cache Options 100 to 2,000GB in mirrored pairs of EFD drives T1 RAID Pack 1 RAID group T2 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more T3 RAID Pack 3 RAID groups or more

Maximum Rack Growth: 6 racks / 67 DAEs / 1000 drives (depending on drive type mixture and DAE model) 10 DAEs in the first rack and 13 in each expansion rack

VNX 7500 NAS

NAS personality in a base Vblock model is not required. 6U reserved for 2 DMEs (Data Mover Enclosure) and 2 CSs. Dual Control Stations Standard X-Blade config: DME and 2 X-Blades in a 1+1 cluster plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing 1 6-core 2.8GHz Intel Westmere CPU with 24GB memory and up to 256TB storage per X-Blade 1 4p 8Gb FC SLIC per X-Blade (2p for BE connectivity / 2p for tape backup) 2 2p 10Gb Ethernet SLICs per X-Blade (FE NFS/CIFS/iSCSI connectivity)

2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 4 x-blades) Add DME and 2 x-blades to VNX chassis plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing Migrate to a 3+1 (active-standby) cluster 2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 6 x-blades) Add DME and 2 x-blades to VNX chassis plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing Expand to a 5+1 (active-standby) cluster 2 x-blade upgrade (grow to 8 x-blades) Add DME and 2 x-blades to VNX chassis plus NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/MPFS licensing

Max expansion to 8 X-Blades in a 7+1 cluster configuration in pairs of 2 X-Blades



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Software FAST Suite Local Protection Suite, Remote

Protection Suite, Application Protection Suite

Management




Rack




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