Hardware Sizing Guidelines for Distributed Storage

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Three storage servers configured similarly form the base cluster. Configuration is based on raw capacity of servers (HDDs). The current recommended data resilience method is erasure-coding (4+2) for backup workloads and RF3 for copy data management workloads. Here are the supported configurations when Commvault software is used for data-protection:

Description

Small

Medium

Large

Jumbo

Raw capacity per node

144 TiB

288TiB

336TiB

384TiB

Dual Boot Disk

2 x 480 GB SATA RI SSD or M.2

2 x 480 GB SATA RI SSD or M.2

2 x 480 GB SATA RI SSD or M.2

2 x 480 GB SATA RI SSD or M.2

RAM

512 GB

512 GB

512 GB

768 GB

CPU

2 x Intel Silver 4214R - 12 core

2 x Intel Silver 4214R - 12 core

2 x Intel Silver 4214R - 12 core

2 x Intel Silver 4214R - 12 core

Data Storage (HDD/Flash)

12 x 12 TiB SAS HDD

24 x 12 TiB SAS HDD

24 x 14 TiB SAS HDD

24 x 16 TiB SAS HDD

Power Supply

Dual

Dual

Dual

Dual

NIC

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

Dual Port - 10 GB/25 GB

NVMe (Metadata)

1 x 6.4 TiB

*Metadata is stored on dedicated flash storage that can consist of Mixed Use (MU) SAS, SSD, and NVMe types.

2 x 6.4 TiB

*Metadata is stored on dedicated flash storage that can consist of Mixed Use (MU) SAS, SSD, and NVMe types.

2 x 6.4 TiB

*Metadata is stored on dedicated flash storage that can consist of Mixed Use (MU) SAS, SSD, and NVMe types.

2 x 6.4 TiB

*Metadata is stored on dedicated flash storage that can consist of Mixed Use (MU) SAS, SSD, and NVMe types.

Hardware RAID Controllers

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

OS Mirroring

Note: Commvaultperforms deduplication for backup workloads, and Distributed Storage performs deduplication for copy data management workloads.