Hardware components of the Dell Validated Design for Enterprise Data Warehouse include:
- The Dell PowerEdge R660 server is perfectly matched for compute-intensive workloads while also minimizing the data center footprint through its 1U form factor. The PowerEdge R660 design enables businesses to easily scale while still handling challenging and emerging workloads. This dual-socket compute platform is ideal for Teradata Vantage database nodes and management nodes.
- The database nodes handle all the "heavy lifting" for the solution. The PowerEdge R660 server model was chosen for this purpose due to its ample performance and flexibility to efficiently handle the Teradata Vantage Advanced SQL Engine components. This server supports PCIe Gen5 for faster access and transport of data, optimizing application output. Also, this server has enough capacity to support GPUs and I/O bandwidth.
- The Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON delivers the top of rack switching. It is a 25 GbE/100 GbE open networking switch that provides state-of-the-art, high-density switching. The open networking capability provides extra flexibility for ever-changing network configurations. The software-defined networking enables a communications fabric that can change and adapt to the scaling of the cluster. The fabric optimizes communications paths with the compute demands as workloads are deployed and shifted across the database nodes.
- The Dell PowerVault ME5 model is a simple, fast, and affordable SAN/DAS storage platform that is optimized to run a variety of mixed workloads - physical and virtual - for small to medium size businesses. The flexibility of PowerVault ME5 offers multiple protocols such as SAS, FC, and iSCSI, supports a wide range of drive types and capacities, and validated with Dell PowerEdge 16G servers. Using fast Intel Xeon processors, Dell PowerVault ME5 storage implements a dual-active controller architecture that provides high redundancy and performance. It is suited for the demands of Teradata Vantage Advanced SQL engine.
The following table lists the hardware components used for the enterprise data warehouse solution.
Type | Usage | Resource |
Servers | Teradata management nodes | Four PowerEdge R660 servers |
Teradata database nodes | Four PowerEdge R660 servers | |
Storage | SAN/DAS | Three Dell PowerVault ME5024 |
Networking | Management network | One PowerSwitch S3148 switch |
iSCSI data network | Two PowerSwitch S5248F-ON switches |