Deploy DataStax Enterprise Quickly Using VMware vSphere with Tanzu
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Summary
DataStax Enterprise allows companies to architect for growth and scalability with a scale-out, cloud-native database that can be deployed with containers. In this document, Datastax, Intel, and Dell present three hardware configuration recommendations to consider with PowerEdge servers.
Looking for a scale-out, cloud-native database that will be a good fit for your financial-services applications, fraud detection, or Internet of Things (IoT) applications? Consider DataStax Enterprise built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax Enterprise is a popular NoSQL database that delivers low latency and high availability not found in traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs).
DataStax Enterprise can be deployed with containers to manage growth and scalability. A popular Kubernetes container platform is VMware vSphere with Tanzu. vSphere with Tanzu lets IT teams set up a developer-ready Kubernetes platform quickly and run containers side by side with existing virtual machines (VMs).
For architects who are considering deploying DataStax Enterprise on VMware vSphere with Tanzu, this article provides three recommended hardware bill of materials (BoM) configurations to get started.
Key Considerations
Key considerations for using the recommended hardware BoMs are outlined below. Note that a minimum of four nodes are required.
- Account for storage overhead. For this workload, storage overhead is larger for bare-metal deployments. This is because both VMware vSAN and DataStax Enterprise require a layer of data replication. Because of this overhead, Tanzu is not well suited for large DataStax Enterprise deployments.
- Enable high performance. All configurations use remote direct memory access (RDMA)-capable Intel Ethernet 800 Series network adapters accelerating vSAN 7 performance (7.0 U2 or later) with the proper driver. For better performance of write-intensive workloads, use Intel SSD P5600 NVM Express (NVMe) drives in place of Intel SSD P5500 drives.
- Set performance levels. The Small, Base, and Plus configurations offer increasing levels of performance as the number of CPU cores and their frequency increases along with memory size, storage performance, and capacity. The Small and Base configurations can be set up with two storage groups and up to eight capacity drives, while the Plus configuration can be configured with up to four storage groups and up to 12 capacity drives. More storage groups can provide better write performance.
Available Configurations
| Configurations | ||
| Small | Base | Plus |
Platform |
Dell PowerEdge R650 server supporting 10 x 2.5” drives with an NVMe backplane | Dell PowerEdge R750 server supporting 24 x 2.5” drives with an NVMe backplane | |
CPU | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Gold 5320 processor (26 cores at 2.2 GHz) | 2x Intel® Xeon® Gold 6348 processor (28 cores at 2.6 GHz) | 2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8362 processor (32 cores at 2.8 GHz) or 2 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 processor (32 cores at 2.6 GHz) |
DRAM | 256 GB (16 x 16 GB DDR4-3200) | 512 GB (16 x 32 GB DDR4- 3200) | 512 GB (16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200) or more |
Boot device | Dell Boot Optimized Server Storage (BOSS)-S2 with 2 x 480 GB M.2 SATA® solid- state drive (SSD) (RAID1) | ||
Storage-cache tier | 2 x 400 GB Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X (PCIe® Gen4) | 3 x 400 GB Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X (PCIe® Gen4) | |
Storage-capacity tier | 4 x (up to 8 x) 1.92 TB Intel® SSD P5500 (PCIe® Gen4, read- intensive) | 6 x (up to 8 x) 3.84 TB Intel® SSD P5500 (PCIe® Gen4, read-intensive) or 6 x (up to 8 x) 3.2 TB Intel® SSD P5600 (PCIe® Gen4, mixed-use) | 6 x (up to 12 x) 3.84 TB Intel® SSD P5500 (PCIe® Gen4, read- intensive) or 6 x (up to 12 x) 3.2 TB Intel® SSD P5600 (PCIe® Gen4, mixed-use) |
Network interface controller (NIC) | Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA2 for OCP3 (dual-port 25 gigabit Ethernet [GbE]) | Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-XXVDA2 for OCP3 (dual-port 25 GbE) or Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter E810-CQDA2 PCIe® Add-on Card (dual-port 100 GbE) |
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