For Bare Metal Orchestrator, the scaling targets are based on the following requirements:
- A GC in a five-node, full high availability (HA) deployment
- 75,000 servers (using emulators)
Active user sessions
Bare Metal Orchestrator has been successfully tested with 30 active user sessions.
Scale Limits
Bare Metal Orchestrator release 2.1 has been validated to work at a scale of 75,000 servers.
The system requirements are as follows:
- CP nodes: 32 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM , 300GB SSD Primary HDD , 400GB SSD Secondary HDD, 2 x 1Gbs NICs
- Remote site nodes: 16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM , 500GB SSD Primary HDD, 1 x 1Gbs NICs
- Load balancer nodes: 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM , 100GB Primary HDD , 1 x 1Gbs NICs
The following tables describe the minimum hardware requirements for Bare Metal Orchestrator deployment and for worker nodes installed at remote sites.
The following table lists the hardware requirements for the Global Controller in a single node Bare Metal Orchestrator cluster deployment. Listed values are minimum requirements unless otherwise stated.
Resource | Requirements |
CPU | 32 CPU cores, physical or virtual |
Memory | 64 GB RAM |
Primary hard disk | 300 GB SSD |
Network Interface Card (NIC) | Two NICs
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Resource | Requirements |
CPU | 32 CPU cores, physical or virtual |
Memory | 64 GB RAM |
Primary hard disk | 300 GB SSD (partition 1, sda) |
Secondary hard disk | 400 GB SSD (partition 2, non-boot partition, sdb)1 |
Network Interface Card (NIC) | Two NICs per VM
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The following table lists the Load Balancer node hardware requirements. Listed values are minimum requirements unless otherwise stated.
Resource | Requirements |
CPU | 8 CPU cores, physical or virtual |
Memory | 16 GB RAM |
Primary hard disk | 100 GB (free space) |
Network Interface Card (NIC) | One NIC |
The following table lists the worker node hardware requirements in both single node and HA deployments. Listed values are minimum requirements unless otherwise stated.
Resource | Requirements |
CPU | 16 CPU cores, physical or virtual |
Memory | 32 GB RAM |
Primary hard disk | 500 GB (free space) |
Network Interface Card (NIC) | One NIC |