The following tables list the number of servers and switches in each cloud and how they are used. Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat was tested with 15 Dell PowerEdge R660 servers and 15 Dell PowerEdge R760 servers.
Infrastructure cloud dimensioning
Servers | Role | Dimensions |
Three PowerEdge R660 servers | Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite Global Controller with internal load balancers running in a high availability cluster | Three Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite control plane VMs |
Management cloud dimensioning
Servers | Role | Dimensions |
One PowerEdge R660 server | Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat administration host for cloud services, auxiliary services, and deployment prerequisites such as DNS and DHCP | One provisioner node |
Three PowerEdge R660 servers | Controller nodes run Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform control plane components | Three controller nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Two PowerEdge R760 servers | Worker nodes for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and observability | Two compute nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Three PowerEdge R760 servers | Storage nodes for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation storage for the management cloud | Three storage nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS and using 800 GB SSDs or 1.6 TB Enterprise NVMe disks |
See Minimum configuration for additional supported deployment configurations.
National Data Center workload cloud dimensioning
Servers | Role | Dimensions |
One PowerEdge R660 server | Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat administration host for cloud services, auxiliary services, and deployment prerequisites such as DNS and DHCP | One provisioner node |
Three PowerEdge R660 servers | Controller nodes run Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform control plane components | Three controller nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Two PowerEdge R760 servers | Worker nodes for cloud-native network functions | Two compute nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Three PowerEdge R760 servers | Worker and storage nodes for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation storage for the workload cloud | Three worker and storage nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS and using 800 GB SSDs or 1.6 TB Enterprise NVMe disks |
See Minimum configuration for additional supported deployment configurations.
Regional Data Center workload cloud dimensioning
Servers | Role | Dimensions |
One PowerEdge R660 server | Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat administration host for cloud services, auxiliary services, and deployment prerequisites such as DNS and DHCP | One provisioner node |
Three PowerEdge R660 servers | Controller nodes run Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform control plane components | Three controller nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Two PowerEdge R760 servers | Worker nodes for cloud-native network functions | Two compute nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS |
Three PowerEdge R760 servers | Worker and storage nodes for Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation storage for the workload cloud | Three worker and storage nodes running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS and using 800 GB SSDs or 1.6 TB Enterprise NVMe disks |
See Minimum configuration for additional supported deployment configurations.
Switch dimensioning
Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat is a bring-your-own-networking solution that uses a customer's existing switches. The following table lists the number and type of switches used to test Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat:
Switches | Role | Cloud type |
One Dell PowerSwitch S5232F-ON switch | Top-of-rack (ToR) switch |
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One Dell PowerSwitch S4148F-ON switch | Out-of-band (OOB) management switch for iDRACs |
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