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Summary of Contents for External OEMR 2950

Page 1: ...w w w d e l l c o m s u p p o r t d e l l c o m VMware Infrastructure 3 0 2 Update 1 for Dell PowerEdge Systems Deployment Guide ...

Page 2: ...States and or other jurisdictions EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation Novell and NetWare are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation AMD Opteron and AMD V are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows SQL Server and Windows Server are either trademarks or registered trad...

Page 3: ...ia 8 Dell Supported Configurations 8 Dell Supported ESX Server Configurations 8 Dell Supported VirtualCenter Configurations 12 VMware Infrastructure Architecture 13 Installing ESX Server and VirtualCenter 16 Installing VirtualCenter 17 Installing ESX Server 17 Tips for Configuring VMotion 19 Installing ESX Server on PowerEdge Blade Servers 19 Fibre Channel Environment Setup With the ESX Server Sof...

Page 4: ...4 Contents Installing and Using Dell OpenManage 20 Additional Resources 21 Product Documentation Resources 21 Technical Support Resources 21 Discussion Forums 21 Knowledge Base 21 ...

Page 5: ...Dell OpenManage provides references to install and use Dell OpenManage Additional Resources provides references to additional documentation Introduction This document helps you to deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 0 2 on PowerEdge systems and provides information specific to Dell servers and storage systems recommended configurations best practices and additional resources VMware Infrastructure consi...

Page 6: ...tures such as VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling DRS and VMware High Availability are available with VirtualCenter 2 0 x What s New This release includes the new generation of VMware Infrastructure for the new PowerEdge systems and storage systems Supported New Hardware Servers PowerEdge 1950 III PowerEdge 2950 III PowerEdge 2900 III PowerEdge R900 Storage Systems Dell PowerVault NX1950 for In...

Page 7: ...able only through S P Table 1 1 describes the features available in these editions Table 1 1 Licensing Features Features VMware Infrastructure Starter VMware Infrastructure Standard VMware Infrastructure Enterprise ESX Server X X X VirtualCenter Agent X X X SAN Connectivity X X Virtual SMP symmetric multiprocessing X X VMotion X DRS X High Availability X Consolidated Backup X Physical CPU Licensin...

Page 8: ...license activation codes You will need both the activation codes for product registration and activation Downloading the Software You can download the VMware Infrastructure 3 0 2 software at www vmware com download vi If you want to download and run VirtualCenter you must first purchase a VirtualCenter license Optional Media You may order the media for your VMware Infrastructure or VirtualCenter s...

Page 9: ...RC6 E PERC 5 E SAS RAID PERC6 E PERC 5 E 6 E and SAS RAID Networking Twointegrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Twointegrated network ports All supported NIC daughter cards Twointegrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Twointegrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Twointegrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Fibre Channel HBA required for SAN Con...

Page 10: ...ERC 5 i Integrated Storage Adapter for External Disks PERC 5 E SAS RAID PERC6E PERC 5 E SAS RAID PERC 5 E SAS RAID PERC6E Networking Four integrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Two integrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Two integrated network ports All supported peripheral NICs Fibre Channel HBA required for SAN Connectivity only All supported Fibre Channel HBAs All...

Page 11: ...00i is not supported with this release TCP Offload Engine TOE is not supported in this release PowerVault NX1950 is supported only as an iSCSI storage device It is not supported as a NAS storage device Dell Network Attached Storage NAS using Windows Storage Server on PowerEdge 2950 and PowerEdge 2900 are not supported AMD Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology in quad core AMD Opteron processors...

Page 12: ... the EMC Support Matrix ESM at www emc com interoperability For additional non qualified Dell configurations see the ESX Server 3 x I O Compatibility Guide and the ESX Server 3 x Storage SAN Compatibility Guide at www vmware com support pubs For more information on legacy server support see the VMware support documents at www dell com vmware For more information on different licensing configuratio...

Page 13: ...he VirtualCenter host This can also reside on a separate host License server is required when using Served Licensing Scheme but is not required for host based licensing For more information on the different licensing configurations see the Installation and Upgrade Guide under VMware Infrastructure 3 at www vmware com support pubs VMware Infrastructure client installs on a system running a supporte...

Page 14: ...onment and design the licensing infrastructure accordingly Determine the kind of storage local SCSI SAS iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN for hosting virtual machines that will best suit the deployment environment and design your storage infrastructure accordingly For Fibre Channel storage determine the number of logical unit numbers LUNs size of LUNs RAID level of the LUNs and the number of storage grou...

Page 15: ... feature determine the hosts that will be a part of such a cluster and allocate shared storage accordingly Determine appropriate networking configuration for Service Console virtual machines and VMkernel Virtual local area networks VLANs can be used to efficiently isolate traffic The following section describes Dell recommended configurations for VMware Infrastructure 3 0 2 deployment Figure 1 3 i...

Page 16: ...and VirtualCenter This section describes the important guidelines for installing VirtualCenter 2 0 x and ESX Server 3 0 x software on PowerEdge systems For step by step installation instructions and requirements see the Installation and Upgrade Guide for ESX Server 3 0 2 and VirtualCenter 2 0 2 under VMWare Infrastructure 3 at www vmware com support pubs VMware Infrastructure client VirtualCenter ...

Page 17: ...g settings Enable the Virtualization Technology VT feature if available in the PowerEdge system VT feature is required to run 64 bit virtual machines on Intel platforms Disable Demand Based Power Management feature if available in the PowerEdge system This feature is not supported with the ESX Server software Set the universal serial bus USB controller to USB on with BIOS support This enables supp...

Page 18: ...ollowing steps Name the local virtual machine file system VMFS partition This will improve usability and also enable easy identification Create one or more virtual switches for virtual machines and VMkernel and bind the physical adapters accordingly Virtual switches for Service Console and virtual machines are created by default during ESX Server installation Table 1 5 Suggested Disk Partitioning ...

Page 19: ...em For more information on shared interrupts in ESX Server see the knowledge base article 1290 at www vmware com support kb Tips for Configuring VMotion To use the VMotion feature follow the important guidelines given below VMotion requires the setup of a Gigabit Ethernet migration network and a VMkernel port group between all ESX Servers configured for VMotion Create consistent network labels for...

Page 20: ...ign ESX Servers and LUNs to each of them For more information about SAN environment configuration see the SAN Configuration Guide for ESX Server 3 0 2 and VirtualCenter 2 0 2 under VMware Infrastructure 3 at www vmware com support pubs For more information about setting up the storage device and creating LUNs RAID groups and storage groups and installing Naviagent see the EMC Navisphere Manager Ad...

Page 21: ...r 2 0 2 Installation Guide Administration Guide Scripting User s Manual technical resources and knowledge base are at www vmware com support pubs Technical Support Resources VMware Support website at www vmware com support Dell hardware support at www dell com support Dell deployment and professional services at www dell com services Discussion Forums VMware discussion forums at http vmware com co...

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