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November 9th, 2024 23:47
Powerflex cluster
Gurus ,
we are in the process to deploy powerflex on our enviroment, we do have Vmware solution in place with vxrail in the back, there has been some confusion on what "powerflex cluster" is and I would like you gurus that already have this solution in place to explain to me what a powerflex cluster is .
1) is it every powerflex compute-only set of nodes
2) is every set of compute-node and its relation to powerflex storage ( so if I have two set of nodes) but they all talk to the same powerflex storage nodes , is this two cluster due to the amount of compute-node set or is one powerflex cluster due to the fact that is only one powerflex store that services both
just need to understand powerflex node
Thanks guys
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November 11th, 2024 18:37
Hello GuaroLucky,
PowerFlex cluster component requirements can be found on page 16 Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Technical Overview which here is the link to that white paper. https://dell.to/4ew4JTb?
Here are some additional links to other documents that can assist you as well.
https://dell.to/48Lss0A
https://dell.to/3CnF4yU
gbarretoxx
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November 14th, 2024 20:25
PowerFlex is a software defined infrastructure solution and it has Storage Nodes and Compute Nodes. These roles are defined by the type of software installed on each node - SDS for Storage Nodes and SDC for Compute Nodes. It is also possible to have both roles on the same physical node, which we call "HCI Node".
I don't know which node type or architecture you have, from a storage perspective you have one (storage) cluster, and from a compute perspective you have another cluster - this one is a "regular" ESXi cluster.
In case it is an HCI architecture, these two "logical" clusters uses the same physical nodes. If this is a 2-Layer architecture, you will have different nodes for compute and storage.
You will find more information on https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/en-us/t/dell-emc-powerflex-appliance-architecture-overview/
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November 18th, 2024 17:26
@gbarretoxx
Thanks to both of you , if I have a set of 4 compute nodes SDC for all my Unix machine and then I have another 4 computes nodes for all my win machines but both sets of compute node talks to the same Store-node do I have two cluster or do I have one cluster , is the use of PFS that determinate the number of clusters
Thanks a bunch