Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave Manual
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- Page 1 Dell PowerConnect W- AirWave 7.3 Server Sizing Guide...
- Page 2 , the ® registered Aruba the Mobile Edge Company logo, and Aruba Mobility Management System . Dell™, the DELL™ logo, and PowerConnect™ are trademarks of Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications in this manual are subject to change without notice.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Disk Partitioning..........................11 Filesystem Configuration......................... 11 Chapter 3 Virtualization and Scalability ...................13 Virtualization............................13 Scalability Assumptions ........................13 Appendix A Sizing a Master Console And Failover ................15 Master Console..........................15 Failover Server..........................15 Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Server Sizing Guide... - Page 4 Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Version 7.3...
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Page 5: Preface
Document Organization This document provides guidelines for purchasing new hardware which hosts AirWave. NOTE: Dell PowerConnect W-Series AirWave Wireless Management Suite (AWMS), AirWave, and AirWave Management Platform (AMP) refer to the same product set and are used interchangeably. Table 1... -
Page 6: Contacting Support
Contacting Support Table 2 Web Support Web Support Main Website dell.com Support Website support.dell.com Documentation Website support.dell.com/manuals 6 | Preface Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Version 7.3... -
Page 7: Chapter 1 Selecting Your Hardware Components
RAID 1+0 ** Optimized memory can vary depending on the vendor configuration. For more information, contact Dell support at support.dell.com NOTE: Ensure that the disk subsystem can sustain these 4KB random write rates. Sustained sequential write rates will not help because Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave writes are primarily random. -
Page 8: Choosing Your Cpu
Intel® Xeon X5690 RAID 1+0 Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave includes the 64-bit CentOS operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and is installed by default. NOTE: If you choose to install RHEL instead of the supplied CentOS, you will need to purchase your own RHEL license and support separately. -
Page 9: Choosing Your Memory
Choosing Your Memory Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave's memory recommendations scale linearly with the managed device count. With Airwave servers running at full load for those device counts with a large number of floorplans, the recommended memory usually results in best overall performance. -
Page 10: 5,000 Devices - Ssd Drives
SSDs offer performance that far outstrips 15K SAS, but at a significant cost premium. Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave does support deployment on SSD based storage arrays and can take advantage of the high speed disk access and stellar random write performance. -
Page 11: Chapter 2 Configuring Your Hardware
Remainder of disk space Filesystem Configuration For Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave, the NOOP File I/O scheduler provides the best random write performance. If you are running Airwave 7.2 or newer, Airwave should automatically manage this setting for you. To check the currently assigned scheduler (if sda is not your device name, please replace with the correct device... - Page 12 12 | Configuring Your Hardware Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Server Sizing Guide...
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Page 13: Chapter 3 Virtualization And Scalability
“Scalability Assumptions” on page 13 Virtualization Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave can run in a VMWare and Xen virtualized environment. To ensure scalability, dedicate the processing and memory. You must also ensure that the disk subsystem can maintain the IOPS throughput as detailed below. - Page 14 Number of attenuation grid cells per floor plan 2,500 Number Rogue devices per floor plan AMP Synchronization timer (minutes) Rogue location timer (minutes) Location calculation timer (min/max/number of samples) 90/360/3 14 | Virtualization and Scalability Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Version 7.3...
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Page 15: Appendix A Sizing A Master Console And Failover
The Failover server should be as powerful as the most powerful AMP server that it is monitoring to ensure smooth operation in a failover situation. Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Server Sizing Guide Sizing a Master Console And Failover | 15... - Page 16 16 | Sizing a Master Console And Failover Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | Version 7.3...