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Figure 2. The EMC VNX Family of Unified Storage Platforms
A key distinction of this new generation of platforms is support for both block- and file-based external storage
access over a variety of access protocols, including Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, and CIFS network
shared file access. Furthermore, data stored in one of these systems, whether accessed as block- or file-based
storage objects, is managed uniformly via Unisphere, a web-based interface window. Additional information on
Unisphere can be found on emc.com in the white paper titled:
EMC’s new VNX storage family now supports the 2.5‖ SAS drives in a 2U disk array enclosure (DAE) that can hold
up to 25 drives, one of the densest offerings in the industry. For example, compared to the older-generation
technology of stor
ing 15 x 600 GB worth of data using the 3.5‖ FC drives in a 3U DAE, the new DAE using 25 x
600 GB drives in a 2U footprint means an increase by 2.5 times. The power efficiency of the new DAEs also
makes it more cost-effective to store the increased data in this much more compact footprint without the need to
increase power consumption and cooling.
Server Consolidation Case Study
Case Study: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Using VMware vSphere 4.1
This section details the scenario implemented for this solution. The SQL Server testing is carried out in four
different Cisco UCS platform (B200 M2, B230 M2, B250 M2 and B440 M2) using VMware vSphere 5 by
considering the following two potential scenarios (Figure 3).