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October 22nd, 2015 03:00
Can I mix ScaleIO Nodes (EMC Servers) with non-EMC server nodes in same ScaleIO cluster?
Hi folks,
I have a question here regarding the new announced ScaleIO nodes, where EMC provides server nodes to have full SW and HW supported by EMC. From SW only approach, we can confidently say that ScaleIO can aggregate all internal storage in any server in data center regardless of server vendor. Now when customer has ScaleIO cluster with EMC server nodes, he can definitely scale out with any mix of the 4 node options offered by EMC, but my question is, can he mix commodity servers from any other vendor with EMC servers in the same cluster, or this cluster of EMC servers has to scale with EMC servers as well and other servers should form a new cluster with SW only licenses.
I'm confident SW only version of ScaleIO is independent of server vendor, but this is just not clear in ScaleIO nodes (SW&HW together) presentation/datasheet.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Zein
dfelt1
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October 22nd, 2015 08:00
For initial launch, not supported unless you are migrating data and will then remove the commodity hardware from the cluster. Future would be to allow all hardware to interoperate.
RafaelNovo
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October 22nd, 2015 04:00
Yes, you can
dfelt1
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October 22nd, 2015 06:00
Hello,
At launch, to ensure robustness and supportability when using ScaleIO Nodes, all nodes in the cluster need to be ScaleIO Node Hardware, unless migrating data from their commodity hardware.
ZeinMohamed1
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October 22nd, 2015 08:00
Hello dfelt
So currently mixing ScaleIO Nodes with non-EMC servers in same cluster is not supported, or just not recommended?
vshawka1
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October 27th, 2015 06:00
I think it is not support, but there is nothing preventing the customer form combining that.
I think the reason behind would be that the nodes are being built to support certain workloads and performance requirements, mixing them with SW only nodes would break that and it would be very difficult to trace/tackle the performance problem.