Cisco Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M4 Node White Paper
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Hardware and Software Specifications
Table 2 provides cluster-based specifications. It shows the hardware required for a minimum configuration cluster
with N+1 resiliency.
Table 2.
Cluster-Based Specifications
Description
Specification
Notes
Hyperconverged nodes
8 Cisco HyperFlex HX220c M4 Nodes
A cluster can consist of 4 to 8 nodes.
Fabric interconnects
2 Cisco UCS 6248UP fabric
interconnects
interconnects
Fabric interconnects provide policy-based stateless
computing.
computing.
Layer 2 switches
2 Cisco Nexus 9372PX Switches
Optional: Deploy a pair of any 10-Gbps switches for
connectivity.
connectivity.
Table 3 provides individual node specifications. It presents component-level details for each node of the cluster
used in the tests reported in this document.
Table 3.
Individual Node Specifications
Description
Specification
Notes
CPU
2 Intel Xeon processor E5-2680 v3 CPUs
Memory
24 x 16-GB DIMMs
FlexFlash Secure Digital (SD) card
2 x 64-GB SD cards
Boot drives
SSD
1 x 120-GB SSD
Configured for housekeeping tasks
1 x 480 GB SSD
Configured as cache
HDD
6 x 1.2-TB 10,000-rpm 12-Gbps SAS drives
Capacity disks for each node
Hypervisor
VMware vSphere 6.0 U1B
Virtual platform for SDS
Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform
software (SDS)
software (SDS)
Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform Release 1.7.1
You can use the VMware vCenter web client to obtain an enterprisewide view. You can set up each vCenter server
instance to manage multiple Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series clusters to scale with separation across clusters for
greater security. You can also then extend this model by connecting multiple instances of vCenter servers using
vCenter linked mode if desired. Linking multiple vCenter instances allows you to view and search resources across
all instances (Figure 6).