INF Project Hardware Requirements
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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BIOS settings |
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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 |
Minimum processor class |
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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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INF 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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