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The reference architecture for this solution includes the following primary hardware components:
The following tables list the details of the hardware, firmware, and driver components of the compute servers and the network I/O modules that we used in the tested configuration of this reference architecture.
Component |
Description |
Modular chassis |
1 x Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 modular chassis |
Power supplies |
6 x 3,000 W redundant power supplies |
Compute sleds |
|
Database ESXi hosts |
|
Subcomponents in each compute sled |
|
Chassis[1] |
2.5 in. chassis with up to 8 SAS/SATA/NVMe hard drives |
Processor |
4 x Intel Xeon Scalable Gold 6148 20c/40T HT 2.4 GHz |
Memory |
1,536 GB (24 x 64 GB QR DDR4 2,666 MT/s LRDIMMs) |
Local disks in server |
3 x 1.2 TB 10 K SAS 12 Gb/s 2.5 in. HDDs (includes one hot spare) |
RAID controller |
PERC H730P MX |
iDRAC |
iDRAC9 Enterprise |
I/O cards for fabrics A/B |
4 x QLogic FastLinQ 41262HMKR DP 10/25 GbE mezzanine cards or CNAs with storage offloads (iSCSI, FCoE) |
Network or I/O modules within the MX7000 modular chassis |
|
I/O modules (converged LAN and SAN) (fabric slots A1 and B1) |
2 x Dell EMC MX9116n 25 GbE Fabric Switching Engine, 12 x QDD28, 2 x Q28, 2 x Q28/32Gb FC |
Note: Newer and updated BIOS and firmware versions are supported, if available. For the latest version, go to Dell EMC Online Support.
Component |
Firmware/operating system |
Driver[2] |
Modular chassis-level |
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Management module |
1.00.01 |
N/A |
Power supplies |
00.36.6B |
N/A |
Compute sleds (applies to both MX840c sleds) |
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BIOS |
1.6.11 |
N/A |
Lifecycle Controller and iDRAC9 Enterprise |
3.20.21.20 |
N/A |
QLogic FastLinQ 41262HMKR DP 10/25 GbE mezzanine card or CNA |
14.07.07 |
|
PERC H730P MX |
25.5.5.0005 |
7.705.10.00 (lsi-mr3) |
Network I/O modules |
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MX9116n FSE |
10.4.0E.R3S.268 |
N/A |
The following table lists the hardware details of the storage array that we used in the tested configuration of this reference architecture:
Storage array component |
Details |
Operating system version |
PowerMaxOS |
Number of bricks |
1 |
Front-end I/O modules |
4 x QP 16 Gb/s FC (two I/O modules per director) |
Cache per engine |
1 TB (512 GB per director) |
Number of disks |
24 NVMe flash drives |
RAID type |
RAID 5 (7+1) |
Raw/usable capacity |
88.69 TB/73.35 TB |