Below is a summary of the session “NetApp HCI. Ready for NEXT. Enterprise-Scale Hyper Converged Infrastructure.” This is an interesting product and I look forward to learning more.
NetApp HCI Architecture
- Integrated Data Services
- Data Fabric Services
- 3rd party services
- VMware vCenter
- Solidfire Element OS
- VMware ESXi
NetApp HCI Appliance
- Chassis or nodes
- 4 nodes per chassis
- Compute or storage nodes
- Minimum
- 2 chassis, 6 nodes
- 4 storage, 2 compute
- 2 expansion slots
Provides Granular Control at VM Level with and without VVOLS. Scale Compute and storage independently.
Compute Node
- 3 different sizes
- 16 – 36 cores for VMware
- 384GB -768 GB memory
- 4x 10/25 GbE and 2x 1Gbe for networking
Storage Node
- 3 different sizes
- 8 – 18 cores
- 1x240GB MLC boot device
- 4x 10/25 GbE and 2x 1Gbe for networking
- SSD 6x480GB, 6x960GB, 6×1.92TB
NetApp Deployment Engine
- Rack and Stack to Ready for VMs
- HCI plugin to vCenter
- Lightweight management VM
- Proactive support with Active IQ
Storage Deployment via API.
Checkbox in the UI which shows the commands and can be exported.
NetApp ONTAP Select
- vNAS on NetApp HCI
- leverage single platform for block access and NAS File
- Dynamically add capacity
