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Customer Information



The Customer labtown is looking to purchase a new storage system and has hired you to create a logical design. Labtown requires no single points of failure when it comes to the fabric connecting the storage. Labtown has already decided that the new storage system will be using fibre to re-use as much of the previous hardware as possible to increase ROI. Labotwn would also like a tiered disk system broken into three categories with the database sitting in the fastest tier, the two web servers sitting in the medium tier, and the file server sitting in the slowest tier.

Create a logical design for Labtowns new Storage System

Requirements

- Create a tiered storage system for Labtown - No single points of failure - Insure storage performance SLA's are met with the four line of business VM's

Instructions

- Place VM's on the bottom of the page and connect them with the connector to the storage LUN they will belong to.

- Connect the stroage LUN with the service processor with the connector

- Connect the storage processors to the SAN switch

- Place HBA's just below the host, as long as they are close to the host points will be scored

- Connect HBA's to SAN switches with either the Fixed, MRU, or RR Connector to dictate the PSP Policy for storage on the ESXi host.

Hosts

Port Groups

Switches

Storage

Connections

VM

Adapters



PCI Slot

1 Port HBA

2 Port HBA

1 Port NIC

2 Port NIC

4 Port NIC



Database VM

Webserver VM

Fileserver VM

Boot Order1

Boot Order2

Boot Order3

vAPP



Standard Connection

RR Connection

MRU Connection

Fixed Connection

Extra Connection



Service Processor1 Active

Service Processor2 Active

Service Processor2 Standby

Gold Storage

Silver Storage

Bronze Storage

Extra Storage



Virtual Distributed Switch

Virtual Standard Switch

Physical Switch

SAN Switch

Extraswitch

