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The following figure provides a design overview of this reference architecture:
Figure 1. Solution architecture design overview
As shown, the PowerEdge MX7000 modular chassis infrastructure provides the compute and network resources, the PowerMax 2000 is used as the SAN storage array and the Data Domain DD9300 is used as the backup appliance in this reference architecture.