Dell EMC PowerFlex Rack Using PowerFlex Manager

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Sample templates

This topic lists the sample templates that are provided with PowerFlex Manager.


Template name	Features	Nodes	VMs	Data networks
Compute Only - ESXi	Standard ESXi compute-only nodes deployment. Depends on hyperconverged or storage-only nodes to be deployed first.	3	0	4
Compute Only - ESXi 100Gb	100 GB networking deployment. Depends on hyperconverged or storage-only nodes to be deployed first.	3	0	4
Compute Only - ESXi - Partial Network	Standard ESXi compute-only nodes deployment with partial network automation. The partial network feature allows you to work with unsupported switches. If you choose to use the partial network feature, you give up the error handling and network automation features that are available with a full network configuration that includes supported switches. Depends on hyperconverged or storage-only nodes to be deployed first.	3	0	4
Compute Only - Linux	Linux-based compute-only nodes deployment. No volume mapping. Depends on hyperconverged or storage-only nodes to be deployed first.	4	0	4
Compute Only - Linux - Partial Network	Standard Linux compute-only nodes deployment with partial network automation. The partial network feature allows you to work with unsupported switches. If you choose to use the partial network feature, you give up the error handling and network automation features that are available with a full network configuration that includes supported switches. Depends on hyperconverged or storage-only nodes to be deployed first.	3	0	4
Hyperconverged	Standard hyperconverged nodes deployment.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - 100Gb	100 GB networking deployment. Nodes require Mellanox CX5 or CX6 interface cards.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - Compression	Compression-enabled deployment. Requires NVDIMM in nodes.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - Encryption	CloudLink encryption deployment. Requires CloudLink Center in environment.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - Leaf-Spine	Networking without virtual port channel deployment. This is the most common leaf-spine configuration.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - Partial Network	Hyperconverged deployment with partial network automation. The partial network feature allows you to work with unsupported switches. If you choose to use the partial network feature, you give up the error handling and network automation features that are available with a full network configuration that includes supported switches.	4	0	4
Hyperconverged - Replication	Hyperconverged deployment with replication enabled.	4	0	5
Management - CloudLink Center	Two node CloudLink Center cluster deployment, for use in encryption templates.	0	2	NA
Management - PowerFlex Gateway	PowerFlex Gateway VM deployment, for use in all templates.	0	1	4
Management - Presentation Server	Presentation server VM deployment. The presentation server hosts the PowerFlex GUI.	0	1	NA
Storage	Standard storage-only nodes deployment.	4	0	4
Storage - 100Gb	100 GB networking deployment. Nodes require Mellanox CX5 or CX6 interface cards.	4	0	4
Storage - Compression	Compression-enabled deployment. Requires NVDIMM in nodes.	4	0	4
Storage - Partial Network	Partial network deployment. The partial network feature allows you to work with unsupported switches. If you choose to use the partial network feature, you give up the error handling and network automation features that are available with a full network configuration that includes supported switches.	4	0	4
Storage - Encryption	Encryption-enabled deployment.	4	0	4
Storage - Replication	Replication-enabled deployment. Configures storage data replicator (SDR) and journal capacity.	4	0	4
Storage - Perf, No HA Management	Non-HA management deployment.	4	0	4