Hardware Sizing Guidelines for Distributed Storages

3 storage servers configured similarly form the base cluster. Configuration is based on raw capacity of servers (HDD’s). The current recommended data resilience method is erasure-coding (4+2). Following are supported configurations when Commvault software is used for data-protection:

Description

Small

Large

Extra Large

Extra-Extra Large

Jumbo

Raw capacity per node

48 TB

96 TB

144 TB

288 TB

336 TB

Dual Boot Disk

480 GB-SSD

480 GB-SSD

480 GB-SSD

480 GB-SSD

480 GB-SSD

RAM

128 GB

256 GB

384 GB

512 GB

768 GB (12 x 64GB)

CPU

2 x Intel 4210 - 10 core, 20 thread

2 x Intel 4210 - 10 core, 20 thread

2 x Intel 4210 - 10 core, 20 thread

2 x Intel 4210 - 10 core, 20 thread

2 x Intel 4210 - 10 core, 20 thread

HDD/Flash

12 x 4 TB

12 x 8 TB

12 x 12 TB

12 x 12 TB

12 x 14 TB

Power Supply

Dual

Dual

Dual

Dual

Dual

NIC

Dual Port - 10 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

NVMe

1 x 3.84 TB

1 x 3.84 TB

1 x 3.84 TB

1 x 3.84 TB

1 x 3.84 TB

Hardware RAID Controllers

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

* Backup and Deduplication using Commvault software
Metadata and Logs on NVMe
No server-side cache
Capacity calculated with SAS HDD

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