Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manuel utilisateur
Dell PowerConnect W
AirWave 7.2
Sizing Guide
Dell PowerConnect W AirWave 7.2 | Sizing Guide 0510830-01 | April 2011
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Contents
About this Guide .......................................................................................................................................................3
Document Organization..................................................................................................................... 3
Note, Caution, and Warning Icons .................................................................................................. 3
Contacting Support ........................................................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Sizing Overview....................................................................................................................5
CPU and Memory Matrix................................................................................................................... 5
Storage Matrix .................................................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 2 CPU, BIOS, Operating Systems, and Storage .................................................................7
CPU and BIOS ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Intel Nehalem and Westmere Architecture Information..................................................... 7
AMD Information........................................................................................................................ 7
Operating System ............................................................................................................................... 7
Storage................................................................................................................................................. 8
RAID Configuration Information...............................................................................................8
200 Devices and Below ..................................................................................................... 8
500 - 1,000 Devices.............................................................................................................8
1,000 - 2,500 Devices.......................................................................................................... 8
2,500 - 5,000 Devices Non-SSD Drives............................................................................ 8
2,500 - 5,000 Devices SSD Drives..................................................................................... 8
Disk Partitioning.......................................................................................................................... 9
Storage System Tuning ............................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 3 Virtualization and Scalability ...........................................................................................11
Virtualization...................................................................................................................................... 11
Scalability Assumptions .................................................................................................................. 12
Appendix A Miscellaneous Sizing Information ..................................................................................15
AMD Hardware................................................................................................................................. 15
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About this Guide
This preface provides an overview of this guide and contact information for Dell, and includes the following
sections:
“Document Organization” on page3
“Note, Caution, and Warning Icons” on page3
“Contacting Support” on page4
Document Organization
This document provides guidelines for purchasing new hardware which hosts the Dell PowerConnect W
AirWave Wireless Management System (AWMS).
Note, Caution, and Warning Icons
This document uses the following icons to emphasize advisories for certain actions, configurations, or concepts:
Table 1 Chapter Organization and Purposes
Chapter Description
Chapter 1, “Sizing Overview” on
page5
Provides an overview of the sizing information.
Chapter 2, “CPU, BIOS, Operating
Systems, and Storage” on page7
Details information about the CPU, BIOS, Operating systems, and storage systems of
AWMS.
Chapter 3, “Virtualization and
Scalability” on page11
Discusses virtual machines and scaling of AWMS.
Appendix A, “Miscellaneous Sizing
Information” on page15
Includes specifications on AMD Hardware.
NOTE: Indicates helpful suggestions, pertinent information, and important things to remember.
CAUTION: Indicates a risk of damage to your hardware or loss of data.
WARNING: Indicates a risk of personal injury or death.
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Contacting Support
Table 2 Website contact
Web Site
Main Website dell.com
Support Website support.dell.com
Documentation Website support.dell.com/manuals
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Chapter 1
Sizing Overview
This overview chapter includes the following topics:
“CPU and Memory Matrix” on page5
“Storage Matrix” on page6
Your hardware should incorporate margin for WLAN expansion as well as future AWMS features and modules.
These specifications are formulated to keep AWMS running on the same hardware platform for up to two years.
Factors which influence the processing requirements for your AWMS server:
How many devices will the server manage?
How often will AMP communicate these devices?
How many wireless clients will the server monitor?
Will this server run the RAPIDS (IDS and WIPS) modules?
Will this server run VisualRF and provide location services?
CPU and Memory Matrix
Table 3 CPU and Memory
Managed
Devices CPU Class Clock Speed
(GHz) CPUs Total
Cores
AWMS
Memory
RAPIDS
Memory
VisualRF
Memory
Pilot 1-25 APs Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X3430
2.4 1 4 3 GB .5 GB .5 GB
100 Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X3440
2.53 1 4 4 GB 1 GB 1 GB
200 Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X3460
2.8 1 4 4 GB 2 GB 2 GB
500 Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X5540
2.53 1 4 4 GB 2 GB 2 GB
1,000 Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X5560
2.8 1 4 6 GB 3 GB 3 GB
2,500 Quad Core Intel®
Xeon X5560
2.8 2 8 16 GB 4 GB 4 GB
2,500 + Hex Core Intel®
Xeon X5680
3.33 2 12 24 GB 6 GB 6 GB
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Storage Matrix
* The 75 GB requirement on the smaller installation (100-500) accounts for the OS and swap overhead, and it is very difficult to
install a single disk with less than 75 GB capacity.
Table 4 Storage
Number of
Devices
Min. AWMS
Storage
Max. AWMS
Storage
*IOPS
2 x random writes to reads Storage System
100 *75 GB 75 GB 60 (1) Drive 15K RPM
200 75 GB 75 GB 120 (1) Drive 15K RPM
500 75 GB 75 GB 300 Multiple 15K RPM RAID Drives
1,000 75 GB 150 GB 600 Multiple 15K RPM RAID Drives
2,500 187 GB 375 GB 1,500 Multiple 15K RPM RAID Drives
2,500 + 300 GB 600 GB 3,000 Multiple 15K RPM & SSD RAID Drives
NOTE: Please ensure the disk subsystem can sustain these random write rates. Sustained sequential write rates will not help
because AWMS writes are primarily random.
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Chapter 2
CPU, BIOS, Operating Systems, and
Storage
This chapter explains sizing information for the following topics:
“CPU and BIOS” on page7
“Operating System” on page7
“Storage” on page8
CPU and BIOS
Intel Nehalem and Westmere Architecture Information
With the advent of Nehalem, Intel now supports NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access). In NUMA, memory on
the same processor board as the CPU (local memory) is accessed faster than memory on other processor boards
(shared memory), hence the "non-uniform" nomenclature. As a result, NUMA architecture scales much better to
higher numbers of CPUs/cores than SMP.
32-bit - ensure NUMA is disabled.
Some vendors' BIOS refer to non NUMA as "Memory Node Interleaving". Ensure "Memory Node
Interleaving" is enabled on 32-bit operating systems.
By default, most vendors disable this setting in their BIOS.
64-bit - ensure NUMA is enabled. Some vendors' BIOS have NUMA Enabled or NUMA-Aware OS options.
Ensure that Power Management is configured for Maximum Performance. By default, most vendors configure
BIOS to an eco-friendly setting.
Ensure that Memory Operating Mode is configured to Optimizer Mode, if available.
AMD Information
Scalability numbers are based on published performance data versus the Intel product line. See Appendix A,
“Miscellaneous Sizing Information” on page15 for details in the AMD Scalability Matrix.
Operating System
To ensure hardware capability, purchase server hardware that is certified by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
AWMS includes the CentOS operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is installed by default.
You may choose to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
AWMS supports both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms. An AWMS server servicing more than 2,500
devices requires 64-bit OS installation coupled with AWMS 7.1 or higher.
AWMS 7.1 installs 64-bit CentOS by default.
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Storage
AWMS stores most statistical data in special statistical flat files. This is a speed improvement over writing to a
relational database. Additionally, it provides for a known, fixed amount of storage per managed device and
consumes much less space than a traditional rational database. AMP spends much more time writing to the disk
subsystem than reading from it.
Here are some factors which influence storage requirements for your AWMS server:
How many devices will the server manage?
How much historical data will the server retain?
How many wireless clients will the server monitor?
Will this Server run VisualRF and RAPIDS?
RAID Configuration Information
200 Devices and Below
AWMS 100 and 200 models perform well on a single, fast (spindle speed) disk.
500 - 1,000 Devices
RAID configuration requires at least 4 SAS/SCSI disk drives in a RAID-10 configuration supplied via a hardware
controller with at least 256 MB of cache. All disk drives must have 15K RPM spindle speeds. Do not use software
RAID systems or SATA disk drives.
1,000 - 2,500 Devices
RAID configuration requires at least 6 SAS/SCSI disk drives in a RAID-10 configuration supplied via a hardware
controller with at least 512 MB of cache. All disk drives must have 15K RPM spindle speeds.
2,500 - 5,000 Devices Non-SSD Drives
AWMS 2,500 - 5,000 device installations require at least 16 SAS/SCSI disk drives in a RAID-10 configuration
supplied via a hardware controller with at least 1 GB of cache. All disk drives must have 15K RPM spindle speeds.
2,500 - 5,000 Devices SSD Drives
AWMS 2,500-5,000 device installations with SSDs require two distinct disk partitions. The first partition will
need 10 SSDs (Solid State Disk) drives in RAID-10 configuration supplied via a hardware controller with at least
1 GB of cache. This partition is the high throughput data storage area "/var" described in the partition table below.
The second partition will require at least two (2) SAS/SCSI drives in a high availability configuration (mirrored or
RAID), supplied via a hardware controller. Both drives must have 15K RPM spindle speeds. This partition will
contain the boot and swap described in the partition tables below.
NOTE: Please contact support.dell.com when purchasing or configuring any hardware platform servicing more than 2,500 devices.
AWMS servers servicing more than 2,500 devices require 64-bit OS and AWMS 7.1 or higher. Do not use software RAID systems or
SATA disk drives.
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