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Figure 1 illustrates the architecture and shows the key components that comprise the solution as it was tested and benchmarked.
Note that these tests used an IP Load Balancer to direct traffic among the PowerScale nodes. The ECS Connection Manager appliance was used for this purpose in GSLB mode because the IP Load Balancer must support a throughput equivalent to the aggregated throughput of each Vertica Client running on the Dell PowerEdge servers.
Note: During our tests we used a Physical IP Load Balancer configured to use GSLB to balance the traffic across the PowerScale nodes.
All testing appliances were contained within a single lab environment.