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This design guide is intended for infrastructure architects, storage administrators, virtualization administrators, system administrators, IT managers, and personnel who evaluate, acquire, manage, maintain, or operate MySQL Server database environments.
This guide describes how to design and implement a VMware based virtualized MySQL InnoDB Cluster solution with PowerStore T storage. It introduces and provides an overview of the architecture design of the entire stack, including the physical, network, and storage design. It describes the best practices for deploying a MySQL server database on PowerStore T in a virtualized environment.