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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 (for this example deployment)

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2 (for this example deployment)

Max of 9
2 (for this example deployment)

Max of 100
colspan="2" | 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
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Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE
Data: 1 or more x 10GE
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