Quick Start is a deployment option that provides a simple, yet optimized solution on a single physical VMware ESXi host. It is designed for smaller, non-mission-critical workloads that enable customers to easily deploy on their own. Workloads such as proof of concept, development, test, or departmental datamarts are ideal for Quick Start. It is an ideal deployment for small to medium-sized enterprises, test and development, or departments within larger organizations looking for a quick, hassle-free implementation.
This customer-installable option can be operational within hours. The Quick Start deployer prompts the user for the information required to perform the installation and then deploys the Vantage Analytics Database and the optional ecosystem products onto a single VMware-enabled server. It requires no deployment services.
Customers can start small with Quick Start and grow to larger-scale deployments, all within a consistent Vantage software stack that is 100% compatible across various deployment options. Quick Start consists of the following components:
- Teradata Vantage Analytics Database
- Includes Analytics Database and other capabilities that vary based on customer requirements. It provides the same full-featured data warehouse software that powers analytics at many of the world's greatest companies and is available with local or shared storage.
- Teradata Data Stream Controller (DSC)
- Provides administrative functions and metadata storage. It is a key component of the backup and restore of Teradata systems. The DSC is an administrative server required to enable object-level backup and restore of Vantage. It contains a repository for all backup and restore job definitions and related configuration details for Teradata systems and backup targets.
- Teradata Server Management
- Monitors the VM and generates alerts related to database and operating system errors and operational state changes.
- Teradata Tools and Utilities
- Provides utilities and libraries for integrating your Teradata system into your enterprise and streamlining the daily data warehouse management tasks, such as moving massive volumes of data, accessing multiple data sources in parallel, and improving your overall Teradata system performance.
- Teradata Viewpoint
- Provides a web-based management portal for Teradata performance and health management which is easy to use. It provides a consistent interface using configurable portlets to customize personal systems management dashboard.
The figure below shows the high-level architecture of Quick Start solution powered by a single Dell server infrastructure.
This complete Quick Start solution is designed for customers who want to quickly stand up a single-node Teradata Vantage platform to hit the ground running, eliminating, or reducing variables related to a full-blown production deployment such as the networking for BYNET. It is suitable for environments like proof of concept, test & dev, or edge computing. For details, see this Teradata article.