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The best practice is to add additional capacity to a VDC before capacity utilization reaches 85%. If your rate of utilization growth is high, start adding additional capacity at 80% utilization. The goal is to have additional capacity available for the system when utilization reaches 85%.
When adding an additional rack to an existing configuration, the following are the best practices.
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When adding capacity in the same rack, the following are the best practices.
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When new installs require multiple racks, divide the number of nodes equally, as much as possible. Keeping in mind the following as a best practice.
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Use case 1: customer wants to deploy eight nodes of EX5000 Single node:
Use case 2: customer wants to deploy 17 nodes of EX500.