March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
13h 51m
English
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Hardware design decisions
The following table lists design decisions for hardware choices in the environment.
The hardware design decisions are as follows:
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Design decision |
Design justification |
Design implication |
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A hybrid vSAN configuration will be used. |
Hardware has already been purchased before the design workshop. |
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The SSDs to be used in the configuration are: 1 x 400 GB SSD |
SSDs from performance class E are used to achieve a high level of performance and scalability from the vSAN configuration. |
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The HDDs (capacity tier) to be used in the configuration are: 3 x 1 TB NL SAS 7.2K |
Hardware has already been purchased before the design workshop. |
NL SAS HDDs are not suitable for I/O intensive applications |
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