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This Ready Stack offers flexibility to address various virtualization use cases and workloads. Sizing a physical infrastructure for all virtualized workloads requires knowledge of all the individual workloads and their compute, memory, storage, and network performance requirements. After you have created one or more VM profiles that meet the Ready Stack requirements, approximate the physical infrastructure that is required to support VMs while also accounting for expected future growth. When finalizing sizing, ensure that you also consider server and storage maintenance requirements and virtualization features such as high availability. In cases where an approximation is not sufficient, a site survey is recommended.
The following table details the small, medium, and large sample configurations of this Ready Stack. The configurations are based on a balanced VM profile of 2 vCPU, 6 GB of memory, a 60 GB virtual disk, and 50 IOPS.
Table 2. Ready Stack sample configurations: Recommended components
Configuration |
Number of VMs |
Number of vCPUs |
vRAM size |
vDisk size |
IOPS |
Enterprise Small |
80 |
160 |
480 GB |
4.8 TB |
4,000 |
Enterprise Medium |
240 |
480 |
1.44 TB |
14.4 TB |
12,000 |
Enterprise Large |
400 |
800 |
2.4 TB |
24 TB |
20,000 |
The balanced VM profile totals for VMs, vCPUs, vRAM, vDisk, and IOPS are based on an Intel SP Skylake generation 10 core per CPU configuration and a 2:1 virtual-to-physical CPU utilization ratio. Depending on VM profile requirements, the actual compute resource totals might vary compared to the values that are shown in the preceding table. For more information about tuning Ready Stack to meet infrastructure needs, consult your Dell EMC Sales representative.
The following figure shows the Enterprise Large infrastructure configuration.
Figure 4. Dell EMC Ready Stack Enterprise Large configuration
The following table lists the component specifications for the Enterprise Small configuration. For more information, see the Management design section on page 33.
Table 3. Enterprise Small component specifications
Component |
Details |
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Virtualization hosts |
4 x R440 server |
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Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
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Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
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Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
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Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 1) |
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Operating system volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
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Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port PCIe network interface card (NIC) |
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HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
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Operating system |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
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Operating system License |
Datacenter Edition recommended. For more information, consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
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Management hosts |
2 x PowerEdge R640 server |
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Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
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Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
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Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
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Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 1) |
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OS volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
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Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port PCIe NIC |
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HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
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OS |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
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Storage array |
Unity 350F All Flash 17 x 3.84TB SSD drives (RAID 5, 6,10) |
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Networking |
OOB
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2 x Dell EMC Networking S4148T-ON switches |
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ToR |
2 x Dell EMC Networking S5232-ON switches
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SAN fabric |
Connectrix DS6500 (6505B or 6510B) 16 Gbps FC switches
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Licenses |
4 x iDRAC9 Enterprise Microsoft System Center Datacenter Edition OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Note: By default, an evaluation license for five servers is available for OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center. For more information, consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
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Cable requirements |
Consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
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The following table lists the component specifications for the Enterprise Medium configuration.
Table 4. Enterprise Medium component specifications
Component |
Details |
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7 x PowerEdge R740 server |
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Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
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Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
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Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
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Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 1) |
|
OS volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
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Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port NIC |
|
HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
OS |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
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|
OS license |
Datacenter Edition recommended. For more information, consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
Management hosts |
2 x PowerEdge R640 server |
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|
Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
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Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
|
Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
|
Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 5, 6, 10) |
|
OS volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
|
Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port PCIe NIC |
|
HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
|
OS |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
Storage array |
Dell EMC Unity 450F All Flash 25 x 3.84TB SSD drives (RAID 5, 6,10) |
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Networking |
OOB |
2 x Dell EMC Networking S4148T-ON switches |
ToR |
2 x Dell EMC Networking S5232-ON switches |
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SAN fabric |
Connectrix DS6500 (6505B or 6510B) 16 Gbps FC switches |
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Licenses |
4 x iDRAC9 Enterprise Microsoft System Center Datacenter Edition OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center. Note: By default, an evaluation license for five servers is available. For more information, consult your Dell EMC representative. |
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Cable requirements |
Consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
The following table lists the component specifications for the Enterprise Large configuration.
Table 5. Enterprise Large component specifications
Component |
Details |
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Virtualization hosts |
13 x PowerEdge R640 server |
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Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
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Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
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|
Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
|
|
Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 1) |
|
|
OS volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
|
|
Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port NIC |
|
|
HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
|
|
OS |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
|
|
OS license |
Datacenter Edition recommended. For more information, consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
|
Management hosts |
2 x PowerEdge R640 server |
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|
Processor |
2 x Intel Xeon SP-6152 Family |
|
|
Memory |
512 GB: 16 x 32 GB DDR4 RDIMMs |
|
|
Storage adapter |
PERC H730p |
|
|
Local storage |
2 x 120 GB SSD (RAID 1) |
|
|
OS volume |
2 x 16 GB microSD in Internal SD Module |
|
|
Network |
Mellanox CX4 LX Dual Port PCIe NIC |
|
|
HBA |
QLogic 2692 Dual Port FC PCIe Card |
|
|
OS |
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016 |
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Storage array |
Unity 550F All Flash 25 x 7.68TB SSD drives (RAID 5, 6,10) |
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Networking |
OOB |
2 x Dell EMC Networking S4148T-ON switches |
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ToR |
2 x DEL EMC Networking S5232-ON switches |
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SAN fabric |
Connectrix DS6500 (6505B or 6510B) 16 Gbps FC switches |
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Licenses |
15 x iDRAC9 Enterprise Microsoft System Center Datacenter Edition. OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center. Note: By default, an evaluation license for five servers is available. For more information, consult your Dell EMC representative. |
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Cable requirements |
Consult your Dell EMC Sales representative. |
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