Hedvig: Install

Hardware

Minimum hardware for Each storage nodes :

General hardware recommendations Here are some general recommendations for your hardware, including nodes, servers, CPUs, memory, network, and disk drives. Number of nodes

• For a single cluster, have a minimum of three storage nodes.
• To scale performance and capacity, simply add nodes.
• It is best to add nodes in multiples of three, although they can be added in any quantity.

Type of servers

• The Hedvig standard is dual-socket x64 servers with onboard drives (SSDs and/or

HDDs).

• It is better to scale the cluster using a larger number of small capacity servers, as

opposed to using a smaller number of large capacity servers. Hedvig is optimized for scale-out. CPUs

• A multi-core Intel E5/E7 CPU, or equivalent, is best.
• In general, the latest CPU generations and models are best.

Memory

• The higher the memory capacity per node the better, because Hedvig utilizes memory

for internal processes and caching.

• The minimum memory configuration for each physical server for a Hedvig Cluster Node

(non-hyperconverged) is usually 48 GB. Typical deployments use servers with 128 to 256 GB. Network

• The Hedvig standard is a 10 GbE network, but 40 GbE is better.
• Gigabit is supported, but it is bandwidth limited.

Hedvig provide prebuild OVF templates / containers / ISO for deploy node and proxies node.

Storage node setup

• Install minimal Centos 6.7 on all storage nodes.
• All the drives should stay unformatted hedvig process take care of all formating and setup.