INF bare metal All-in-one Simplex (1 node)
This section describes the hardware requirements and server preparation for a INF bare metal All-in-one Simplex deployment configuration.
The All-in-one Simplex (AIO-SX) deployment option provides all three cloud functions (controller, worker, and storage) on a single server with the following benefits:
- Requires only a small amount of cloud processing and storage power
- Application consolidation using multiple containers or virtual machines on a single pair of physical servers
- A storage backend solution using a single-node CEPH deployment
Figure 1: All-in-one Simplex deployment configuration
Minimum hardware requirements for AIO-SX
The recommended minimum hardware requirements for bare metal servers for various host types are:
Minimum Requirement | All-in-one Controller Node |
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Number of servers | 1 |
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Minimum memory | 32 GB |
Primary disk | 500 GB (It's better to be SSD or NVMe) |
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INF bare metal All-in-one Duplex (2 nodes)
This section describes the hardware requirements and server preparation for a INF bare metal All-in-one Duplex deployment configuration.
The All-in-one Duplex (AIO-DX) deployment option provides a pair of high availability (HA) servers with each server providing all three cloud functions (controller, worker, and storage).
An AIO-DX configuration provides the following benefits:
- Only a small amount of cloud processing and storage power is required
- Application consolidation using multiple containers or virtual machines on a single pair of physical servers
- High availability (HA) services run on the controller function across two physical servers in either active/active or active/standby mode
- A storage back end solution using a two-node CEPH deployment across two servers
- Containers or virtual machines scheduled on both worker functions
- Protection against overall server hardware fault, where
- All controller HA services go active on the remaining healthy server
- All virtual machines are recovered on the remaining healthy server
Figure 2: All-in-one Duplex deployment configuration
Minimum hardware requirements for AIO-DX
The recommended minimum hardware requirements for bare metal servers for various host types are:
Minimum Requirement | All-in-one Controller Node |
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Number of servers | 2 |
Minimum processor class |
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Minimum memory | 32 GB |
Primary disk | 500 GB (It's better to be SSD or NVMe) |
Additional disks |
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Minimum network ports |
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INF bare metal All-in-one Duplex + extra worker nodes (at least 3 nodes)
This section describes the hardware requirements and server preparation for a INF bare metal All-in-one Duplex + extra worker nodes deployment configuration.
Figure 3: All-in-one Duplex + extra workers deployment configuration
Note: the controllers in the figures include all three cloud functions (controller, worker and storage)
Minimum hardware requirements for AIO-DX + extra worker nodes
The recommended minimum hardware requirements for bare metal servers for various host types are:
Minimum Requirement | All-in-one Controller Node | Worker Node |
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Number of servers | 2 | 1-10 |
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Minimum memory | 32 GB | 16 GB |
Primary disk | 500 GB (It's better to be SSD or NVMe) | 120 GB |
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Minimum VM configuration for each deployment
INF can also be deployed in VM and the minimum VM configuration for each deployment are:
| Minimum Requirement | All-in-one Controller Node | Worker Node |
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| Number of vcpu | 8 | 6 |
| Minimum Memory | 32G | 16G |
| Disks | Disk1: 250G Disk2: 100G | Disk1:120G |
| Boot Order | Enable the Network option. Order should be: CD/DVD, Hard Disk, Network. | the same as AIO |
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