Dell infrastructure provides the compute, memory, storage, and network resources for the platform. Modern Data Stack platform on Dell infrastructure illustrates the required infrastructure components and their roles in the cluster.
- Control nodes
- Control nodes support the core platform services that are defined in the Symcloud Platform Manager role.
- Worker nodes
- Worker nodes support the platform runtime services and customer workloads. The runtime services are defined in the Symcloud Platform Compute and Storage roles, while user deployments define the workloads. Supported nodes include standard and compute accelerated nodes.
- Storage infrastructure
- Storage infrastructure provides the modern data stack storage layer. PowerScale and ECS configurations are provided. You can use either or both.
- Network infrastructure
- Network infrastructure provides the required connectivity between the server and storage infrastructure and the on-premises network.
The architecture is flexible and supports a wide range of infrastructure configurations. Dell Technologies recommends the following configurations for a general-purpose modern data stack environment running analytics workloads. Individual node configurations include node-specific guidance. More guidance for cluster level sizing and scaling is provided in Sizing the solution. Design guides for individual solutions on the platform may include more specific recommendations for those solutions.