This validated design for data analytics decouples compute and storage resources. This approach provides increased resource utilization, increased flexibility, and lower costs.
The system supports independent provisioning of storage and compute and enables the use of heterogenous storage and compute resources. This design provides a better balance between storage and compute for varying workloads.
Decoupling also simplifies the life cycle and management of the system by allowing independent management, scaling, and upgrades of storage and compute resources.
The design also separates runtime storage from data lake storage. PowerStore storage with the Dell Container Storage Interface (CSI) drivers provides runtime storage. PowerScale with the HDFS protocol, or ECS or ObjectScale with the S3 protocol, provides data lake storage.