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The following building blocks the architecture for Dell APEX Private Cloud for the Manufacturing Edge with Litmus.
Dell APEX Private Cloud delivers a secure and scalable on-premises cloud experience to simplify operations at the edge with a monthly subscription and integrated life cycle management on infrastructure owned and deployed by Dell. The Dell APEX Private Cloud is built on the VxRail platform jointly engineered by Dell and VMware.
The VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure creates a turnkey deployment at the edge that offers maximum flexibility for high availability, scale, and consolidation of OT workloads and applications. As part of this solution, Litmus Edge, Litmus Edge Manager, and Streaming Data Platform (SDP) run on VMs on the VxRail HCI.
The Streaming Data Platform provides an ingestion and storage capability for OT data streams, and also has integrated analytics capabilities. SDP is built on open-source platforms and runs on VxRail as a VM specifically for this solution.
The SDP acts as the aggregation point for the data ingested across all Litmus Edge instances in this solution. One or more SDP instances can be deployed, depending on the scenario.
The Litmus modern-edge software platform transforms the way that industrial companies collect, analyze, and leverage machine data. By partnering with Litmus for the DVD for Manufacturing Edge, the solution delivers instant connectivity and flexibility in edge deployment.
Dell leverages two components from Litmus as part of the solution: Litmus Edge and Litmus Edge Manager.