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This section describes the architecture and design that is used to demonstrate the CockroachDB solution on PowerFlex.
In this solution, a two-layered PowerFlex configuration that provides both compute and storage resources is used. PowerFlex Manager is used to deploy a PowerFlex storage-only (SO) cluster on four bare metal servers. This deployment is fully automated by PowerFlex Manager. The deployment of PowerFlex compute-only (CO) nodes are performed on four bare metal servers with RHEL 8.6 as the operating system.
For more information about the configuration of PowerFlex nodes used in this solution, see Configuration details.