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Within the DVD for Manufacturing Edge with Litmus, there are four key building blocks that comprise the architecture.
The VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure creates a turnkey deployment at the edge that offers maximum flexibility for high availability, scale, and consolidation of OT workloads and applications. As part of this solution, Litmus Edge, Litmus Edge Manager, and Streaming Data Platform (SDP) run on VMs on the VxRail HCI.
The Streaming Data Platform provides an ingestion and storage capability for OT data streams, and also has integrated analytics capabilities. SDP is built on open-source platforms and runs on VxRail as a VM specifically for this solution.
The SDP acts as the aggregation point for the data ingested across all Litmus Edge instances in this solution. One or more SDP instances can be deployed, depending on the scenario.
For scenarios where high availability is not required at the edge, the solution runs on a single-node PowerEdge server running VMware ESXi. Integrated, validated, and ruggedized server platforms (XR11, XR12) offer deployment flexibility for the solutions outside of the data center.
The Litmus modern-edge software platform transforms the way that industrial companies collect, analyze, and leverage machine data. By partnering with Litmus for the DVD for Manufacturing Edge, the solution delivers instant connectivity and flexibility in edge deployment.
Dell leverages two components from Litmus as part of the solution: Litmus Edge and Litmus Edge Manager.