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Revision as of 00:20, 11 August 2019

Deployment Diagram

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Hardware Requirements for Bare Metal Servers

The recommended minimum requirements for the Bare Metal Servers for the various host types are:

Minimum Requirement Controller Node Storage Node Compute Node
Number of Servers 2 2 - 9 2 - 100
Minimum Processor Class Dual-CPU Intel® Xeon® E5 26xx Family (SandyBridge) 8 cores/socket
Minimum Memory 64 GB 64GB 32 GB
Primary Disk 500 GB SDD or NVMe 120 GB (min. 10K RPM) 120 GB (Minimum 10K RPM)
Additional Disks None 1 or more 500 GB (min. 10K RPM) for Ceph OSD.

Recommend, but not required,
1 or more SSDs or NVMe drives for Ceph journals (min. 1024 MiB per OSD journal)
For OpenStack, recommend 1 or more 500 GB (min. 10K RPM) for VM local ephemeral storage
Minimum Network Ports Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE
OAM: 1x1GE
Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE
Data: 1 or more x 10GE
BIOS Settings Hyper-Threading technology enabled
Virtualization technology enabled
VT for directed I/O enabled
CPU power and performance policy set to performance
CPU C state control disabled
Plug & play BMC detection disabled

Prepare Servers

Prior to starting the installation, the Bare Metal Servers should be:

  • physically installed,
  • cabled for power,
  • cabled for networking
    • with the far-end switch ports properly configured to realize the networking of the above deployment diagram
  • all disks should be wiped
    • such that servers will boot from either the network or USB storage (if present),
  • and powered off.