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Direct Attached
Controllers: SAS or SATA JBOD HBAs (SAS preferred)
“Hot plug” connector/backplane support
Disks: “Enterprise Grade”
Designed for 24x7 continuous duty cycles
Typically 5 years of warranty
Examples: Seagate “Exos”, Western Digital “Gold”
Storage Networking
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Best PracticeMaintain the same network speed for all devices within the Swarm cluster; mixing speeds requires additional configuration to avoid performance problems. |
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Component | Platform Server | Elasticsearch | Content Gateway | SwarmFS |
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Purpose | Boot, monitor, manage Storage cluster | Query and list objects in Storage | Protocol and auth/auth gateway to Storage | NFS protocol gateway to Storage |
CPU | x86-64 (multi-socket/core, 2 cores) | x86-64 (multi-socket/core) | x86-64 (multi-socket/core) | x86-64 (multi-socket/core, 4+ cores) |
Memory | 8 GB RAM | 64 GB RAM per 1 billion distinct objects | 4+ GB RAM | 4+ GB RAM (16 GB recommended) |
Drive | 80+ GB (large clusters: more for logs) | 1.5 TB per 1 billion distinct objects | 4+ GB plus OS install footprint | 40+ GB plus OS install footprint |
Network | 1 Gb Ethernet | 1 Gb Ethernet | 1 Gb Ethernet | 1 Gb Ethernet (10 Gb heavy traffic) |
Servers | 1 | 3 to 4 (for redundancy and performance) | Scale to support client sessions | Scale to support client sessions |
Virtualize | Yes (OVA available) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Notes | Assume full index of object metadata (custom metadata) | Scale RAM and CPU with concurrent writes |
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