![]() To connect all the systems, we used an HPE FF570 32XGT. For connectivity, the AF20Q has four 10Gb ports, two of which we used as iSCSI targets, while the other two we used for management. VMware ESXi 6.7u1 and the Nimble toolkit come pre-installed on these systems.įor storage, we used an HPE Nimble from their AF line specifically, an AF20Q array with 12 960GB SSD drives, providing us with 5.8 TiB of usable storage. These servers have dual Intel Xeon 6130 procs, 128GB of RAM, and redundant drives for the OS. Our initial dHCI cluster will be comprised of two compute nodes connected to an HPE Nimble Storage array and managed using vSphere with the HPE dHCI plugin.įor the compute nodes, we used HPE D元60 Gen10 servers. We felt that this would replicate the experiences users would have when doing an initial dHCI deployment. To get a better understanding of storage in a dHCI environment and how HPE’s dHCI solution has automated and simplified the process of setting up and managing dHCI, we deployed it in an environment that had existing vCenter Servers. Setting up the HPE Nimble dHCI Environment In this article, we will dive deeper into the storage aspect of dHCI and see if it can be managed efficiently from the same pane as compute. This imbalance with HCI deployments is due to very few applications growing compute needs at the same velocity as storage. ![]() dHCI vendors have consciously uncoupled the storage from the compute to provide datacenters the freedom to grow their deployments holistically, thereby preventing the stranded resource problem that is prevalent with HCI deployments. ![]() As a recap, dHCI is similar to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in the sense that it allows storage, compute, and networking to all be managed from a single management plane (in HPE’s case, from vCenter Server) however, unlike HCI, dHCI does not need to deploy storage in lockstep with compute. In particular, we looked at HPE’s implementation of dHCI as they are a leader in this technology. In a recent article, we looked at one of the more interesting technologies currently being deployed in the datacenter: disaggregated hyperconverged infrastructure (dHCI). ![]()
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