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MURAL Software Installation Guide

to requests from the UI engine. The Caching node is sometimes called the

Rubix node. The Caching node uses N+1 redundancy in active-active mode.

Compute node—Analyzes and aggregates the data, creating data cubes. The

Compute node cluster can have any number of servers, depending on your

deployment, and uses N+1 redundancy.

Insta node—Stores and manages the processed data in a columnar data-

base. It also manages the Insta database, which stores processed data

cubes. The Insta node cluster has two servers with 1+1 redundancy.

Apart from standard installations, MURAL system can be prepared with fewer

blades by accommodating two or three application components into a single

cluster, as described in the following sections.

1.3.1 Starter Pack Setup

In the Starter Pack setup, GMS, Collector (with Name-node) and UI components

are hosted together on the same cluster.

1.3.2 Medium Pack Setup

In the Medium Pack setup, GMS and Collector (with Name node) components are

hosted together on the same cluster.

1.3.3 Hardware

The MURAL application is hosted on the UCS Blade Server Chassis that comprises

GMS, Collector, Rubix, Compute and Insta nodes. Data storage is hosted on the

EMC storage devices.

The data flows that feed the MURAL system are pushed by an ASR.

1.4 Installation Package

The MURAL software installation package contains the following components:

An ISO image: mfgcd-atlas<

release version

>.iso, where

release version

changes with each release, for example 3.9.rc1.

mfgcd-atlas3.9.rc1.iso