Dell PowerFlex 4.6.x Administration Guide

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Sample templates

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

Table 1. Sample templatesProvides a description of each sample template
Template name	Description	Minimum number of nodes required	Minimum number of VMs required	Minimum number of data networks required
Compute - ESXi	A standard ESXi compute-only node deployment. This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	2
Compute - ESXi 100 Gb	An ESXi compute-only node deployment. 100 GB networking deployment. This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	2
Compute - ESXi - Partial Network	A standard ESXi compute-only node 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. This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	2
Compute-Linux-25gb-2Data-Trunked	A Linux compute-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management and customer networks on two ports in mode1 bond (interface1 port1 and interface2 port2) Two networks (data 1 and data 2) as SDC-SDS traffic on the other 2 ports 25 gig NIC This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first. This template was called Compute - Linux in previous releases.	2	0	2
Compute-Linux-25gb-4Data-Trunked	A Linux compute-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management and customer networks on two ports in mode1 bond (interface1 port1 and interface2 port1) Two networks (data 2 and data 3) on interface1 port2 Two networks (data 1 and data 4) on interface2 port2 25 gig NIC This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	4
Compute-Linux-100gb-4Data-Trunked	A Linux compute-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management and customer networks on two ports in mode1 bond (interface1 port1 and interface2 port1) Two networks (data 2 and data 3) on interface1 port2 Two networks (data 1 and data 4) on interface2 port2 100 gig NIC This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	4
Compute-ESXi-25gb-2Data-Trunked	A Linux compute-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management and customer networks on two ports set to "Route based on physical NIC load" (interface1 port1 and interface2 port1) Two networks (interface1 port2: data2 and interface2 port2: data1) as SDC-SDS traffic on the other 2 ports 25 gig NIC This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	2
Compute - Linux - Partial Network	A standard Linux compute-only node 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. This template requires that hyperconverged or storage-only nodes be deployed first.	2	0	2
Hyperconverged	An ESXi standard hyperconverged node deployment.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - 100 Gb	An ESXi hyperconverged node deployment with 100 GB networking. Nodes require Mellanox CX5 or CX6 interface cards.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - Compression	A standard ESXi hyperconverged node deployment with compression-enabled. Requires NVDIMM in nodes.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - Encryption	A standard ESXi hyperconverged node deployment with CloudLink encryption. Requires CloudLink Center in environment.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - Leaf-Spine	An ESXi hyperconverged node deployment with networking without a vPC. This is the most common leaf-spine configuration.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - Partial Network	A standard ESXi hyperconverged node 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.	3	0	2
Hyperconverged - Replication	A standard ESXi hyperconverged node deployment with replication enabled.	3	0	3 Two networks for data. One network for replication.
Management - CloudLink Center	A two node CloudLink Center cluster deployment, for use in encryption templates.	2	2	N/a
PowerFlex File	A PowerFlex file cluster deployment.	2	0	Four PowerFlex Data networks One NAS File Data network NOTE:Two NAS File Data networks are recommended for redundancy.
PowerFlex File - SW Only	A PowerFlex file cluster deployment in a software-only environment.	2	0	1
Storage	A standard storage-only node deployment.	3	0	2
Storage-25gb-4Data-Trunked	A storage-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management network in mode1 bond, on all 4 ports Four Data networks, each not in a bond 25 gig NIC interface1 port1: management, data1 interface1 port2: management, data2 interface2 port1: management, data3 interface2 port2: management, data4 This template was called Storage-NoBonding in previous releases.	3	0	4
Storage-100gb-4Data-Trunked	A storage-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management network in mode1 bond, on all 4 ports Four Data networks, each on different port 100 gig NIC interface1 port1: management, data1 interface1 port2: management, data2 interface2 port1: management, data3 interface2 port2: management, data4	3	0	4
Storage-25gb-2Host-Data-Trunked	A storage-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management network in mode1 bond on 2 ports Two networks (Data 1 and Data 2) as SDC-SDS traffic Two networks (Data 3 and Data 4) as SDS-SDS traffic 25 gig NIC interface1 port1: management, data1 SDC-SDS traffic interface1 port2: data3 SDS-SDS traffic interface2 port1: management, data2 SDC-SDS traffic interface2 port2: data4 SDS-SDS traffic	3	0	4
Storage-100gb-2Host-Data-Trunked	A storage-only node deployment with these characteristics: Management network in mode1 bond on 2 ports Two networks (Data 1 and Data 2) as SDC-SDS traffic Two networks (Data 3 and Data 4) as SDS-SDS traffic 100 gig NIC interface1 port1: management, data1 SDC-SDS traffic interface1 port2: data3 SDS-SDS traffic interface2 port1: management, data2 SDC-SDS traffic interface2 port2: data4 SDS-SDS traffic	3	0	4
Storage - Perf, No HA Management	A storage-only non-HA management node deployment.	3	0	2
Storage with NVMe/TCP	A storage-only node deployment with NVMe/TCP.	3	0	2
Storage - 100 Gb	A storage-only node deployment with 100 GB networking. Nodes require Mellanox CX5 or CX6 interface cards.	3	0	2
Storage - Compression	A storage-only node deployment with compression enabled. Requires NVDIMM in nodes.	3	0	2
Storage - Encryption	A storage-only node deployment with encryption enabled.	3	0	2
Storage - Partial Network	A storage-only node deployment with 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.	3	0	2
Storage - Replication	A storage-only node deployment with replication enabled. Configures storage data replicator (SDR) and journal capacity.	3	0	2