1DeployingMicrosoftHyper-VCloudFastTrackontheHitachiAdaptableModularStorage2500ReferenceArchitectureByRickAndersenApril2011MonthYear1FeedbackHitachiDataSystemswelcomesyourfeedback.PleaseshareyourthoughtsbysendinganemailmessagetoSolutionLab@hds.com.Besuretoincludethetitleofthiswhitepaperinyouremailmessage.2TableofContentsSolutionOverview.....................................................................................................................4KeySolutionComponents........................................................................................................6HardwareComponents............................................................................................................6SoftwareComponents..............................................................................................................11SolutionDesign.........................................................................................................................12High-levelArchitecture.............................................................................................................12HitachiComputeBlade2000ChassisConfiguration...............................................................14HitachiComputeBlade2000ServerArchitecture...................................................................15StorageArchitecture.................................................................................................................16SANArchitecture......................................................................................................................21PathConfiguration....................................................................................................................22NetworkArchitecture................................................................................................................23ManagementArchitecture........................................................................................................27EngineeringValidation..............................................................................................................31Conclusion.................................................................................................................................323DeployingMicrosoftHyper-VCloudFastTrackontheHitachiAdaptableModularStorage2500ReferenceArchitectureTheHitachiandMicrosoftHyper-VCloudFastTracksolutionprovidesareferencearchitectureforbuildingprivatecloudsaccordingtoanorganization’suniquerequirements.Thisfast-tracksolutionhelpsorganizationsimplementprivatecloudswitheaseandconfidence.Thebenefitsofthissolutionarefasterdeployment,reducedrisk,predictabilityandalowercostofownershipasoutlinedinthefollowinglist:FasterDeploymentSpeeddeploymentofaninitialcloudbyinstallingapre-validatedreferencearchitecture.Rapidlygrowtheinfrastructuretoadapttomarketpressuresbyleveragingthescalabledesignofthearchitecture.Simplifyinfrastructureandvirtualmachinedeploymentwithintegratedmanagement.Rapidlydeployandprovisionresourcesusingaself-serviceportal.ReducedRiskDeployasolutionwithtested,end-to-endinteroperabilityofcompute,storageandnetwork.Deploypre-definedout-of-boxsolutionsbasedonacommoncloudarchitecturethathasalreadybeentestedandvalidated.Quicklyprovisionvirtualmachineswiththeassurancethattheunderlyinginfrastructureresourcesareinplace.Adapttofailuresbyutilizingautomationthatdetectsandreactstoevents.Increasevirtualmachinedensitywhilemaintainingperformancethroughmonitoringofsystemstoensurebottlenecksaredetectedandcorrected.PredictabilityHDSdeliversanunderlyinginfrastructurethatassuresaconsistentexperiencetothehostedworkloads.HDSstandardizationofunderlyingphysicalservers,networkdevicesandstoragesystems.LowercostofownershipAcost-optimizedplatformandsoftware-independentsolutionforracksystemintegration.HighperformanceandscalabilitywithHitachiAdaptableModularstoragesolutionsalongwiththeWindows2008R2operatingsystemandHyper-Vtechnology.TheHitachiComputeBlade2000alongwiththeHitachiAdaptableModularStorage2500providesahighlyavailableandhighlyscalableplatformonwhichtobuildaprivatecloudinfrastructure.4Oneoftheprimaryobjectivesoftheprivatecloudsolutionistoenablerapidprovisioningandde-provisioningofvirtualmachines.Doingsoonalargescalerequirestightintegrationwiththestoragearchitectureandrobustautomation.ProvisioninganewvirtualmachineonanalreadyexistingLUNisasimpleoperation;however,provisioninganewLUNtosupportadditionalvirtualmachinesandaddingittoahostclusterarecomplicatedtasksthatgreatlybenefitfromautomation.StoragearchitectureisacriticaldesignconsiderationforHyper-VCloudsolutions.Thetopicischallengingasitisrapidlyevolvingintermsofnewstandards,protocolsandimplementations.Storageandthesupportingstoragenetworkingarecriticaltotheoverallperformanceoftheenvironmentandaffecttheoverallcost.TheHitachiAdaptableModularStorage2500isidealforprivatecloudsbecauseofitsabilitytoscaleasadditionalworkloadsarehostedinthecloudandforprovidinghighavailabilitytotheseworkloads.Apri