
17 Network Virtualization with Dell Infrastructure and VMware NSX | Version 1.2
Figure 10 Dell End-to-End Converged Infrastructure with VMware NSX
In this end-to-end converged design, Data Center Bridging (DCB) is utilized to provide a lossless medium
for converged LAN and SAN traffic. iSCSI storage, LAN, Management, vMotion, and VXLAN transport traffic
is carried over 2 x 10 GbE ports per each compute and edge server. At least two edge servers are deployed
for high availability, and the edge servers carry additional traffic for edge and high availability.
Important characteristics about this physical infrastructure:
In this collapsed core architecture, Dell MXL blade access switches act as ToR for blade servers
and Dell S4810 switches act as ToR for rack servers.
This is a completely converged architecture leveraging DCB. Broadcom 57810 and 57800 CNAs
were utilized and all iSCSI offload is done on the CNA; this implies that all priority tagging is
handled by the CNA. There are 2 x 10 GbE Broadcom CNA ports on each server that carry LAN and
Comentarios a estos manuales