SIMULATION
Customer Requirements:
You have been tasked with creating a vSphere 6.x data center design for an organization. The organization has produced two 24 port FC switches, and Asymmetrical Active/Active storage array (2 storage Processors with 4 ports each) and 22 ESXi Hosts with 2 dual port HBAs in each. Due to budgetary constraints, the organization cannot purchase anymore equipment. They have provided the following requirements:
-The existing Fibre Channel (FC) Asymmetrical Active/Active Array and FC switches must be used.
-No single point of failure to any datastore.
-Configuration must provide failover and load balancing.
-The customer requires a solution that will accommodate virtual machines with three different I/O load requirements:
-Static web virtual machines
-Critical application virtual machines.
-Object storage for their database virtual machines.
Design Requirements:
Create a logical design that be applied to each of the ESXi Hosts. The design should meet, but not exceed the customer’s requirements and should include:
-All required hardware
-All required resources
Place the required datastore(s) in the storage array(s). Connect the storage processor(s) to the storage array(s). Connect the switch(es) to the storage processor(s) and HBA(s). Connect the ESXi host to the HBA(s) and Path Selection Policies.
Your Response: type here
A. See the solution below
This would be my answer:
Hardware Object – 4 port storage processor
Hardware Object – 2 port HBA
Hardware Object – Fiber Channel Switch
Storage Object – Asymmetrical Active/Active Storage Array (this is clearly requested on the question)
Storage Object – RAID5
Path Selection Policies – FIXED
Not sure about the dependency connector… The HBA Fibre channel should be an independent connector correct me if I’m wrong…
why Fixed instead of RR?