Hardware and software details
The following table summarizes the hardware and software resources that were used to carry out the performance test:
Table 7. Hardware and software details
PowerFlex nodes | - HCI Nodes
- 8 x PowerFlex Nodes (PowerEdge R640 servers):
- PowerFlex version: 3.6
- CPU: 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50 GHz, 20 cores
- Memory: 384 GB RAM ((24 x 16-GB DIMMs)
- 8 x 960 GB Kioxia PM6 SSD
|
Network | - 2 x MLNX 25 GbE 2P ConnectX4LX Adapter
- 2 x 93180YC Cisco switches
|
Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 |
Red Hat OpenShift | - 4.9
- PowerFlex CSI driver 2.3
- CRIO runtime
- OpenShift SDN
|
OpenShift Master VM | - 8 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 100 GB Storage
|
SQL Database Pod | - Microsoft SQL Server 2019
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3
- 32 GB RAM
- 16 CPUs per pod and 32 CPUs per pod
|
Benchmark Tool | HammerDB 4.0 |