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The following table describes the configuration details for the bastion node, PowerFlex gateway/presentation server, and k8s-master node.
Table 2. Management instances
Hardware | Configuration |
EC2 Instance type | T2.large |
vCPU | 2 |
Memory (GiB) | 8 GiB |
Storage | Amazon EBS |
root device volume (GB) | 30 GB |
Software | Configuration |
Operating system (AMI) for (PowerFlex gateway and Presentation server) | RHEL 8.4 |
Dell PowerFlex software release | 3.6.4 |
Operating system (AMI) (Bastion node) | Windows 2016 |
The following table describes the AWS instance configuration details with Instance storage that is used for the PowerFlex two-layer mode of deployment.
Hardware | Configuration |
EC2 instance type | i3en.12xlarge |
vCPUs | 48 (3.1 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake or Cascade Lake) processors) |
Memory (GiB) | 384 GiB |
Instance Storage (GB) | 4 x 7500 NVMe SSD |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | 50 Gbps |
Software | Version |
Operating system (AMI) | RHEL 8.4 |
PowerFlex SDS | 3.6.4 |
The following table describes the hardware and software configuration details of an Amazon EC2 instance used as PowerFlex compute optimized instances:
Hardware | Configuration |
EC2 instance type | c5n.18xlarge |
vCPUs | 72 vCPUs Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00 GHz |
Memory (GiB) | 192 GiB |
root device volume (GB) | 100 GB (Amazon EBS) |
Network Bandwidth (Gbps) | 100 Gbps |
Software | Version |
Operating system (AMI) | RHEL 8.4 |
PowerFlex SDC | 3.6.4 |
PostgreSQL version | 15.2 |
Benchmark tool | Pgbench |