Dell SD7000-S, SD630-S User Manual

Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING
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2016 - 05

Rev. A01

Contents

1 Introduction...........................................................................................................4

2 Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution rules..................................5

3 Supported server firmware and drivers............................................................ 7

4 Supported server boot drives.............................................................................8

5 Supported SSD, SATA, and SAS drive models.................................................. 9

6 Supported NDC and NIC................................................................................... 10

7 Supported server operating systems...............................................................11

8 Supported switches............................................................................................12

9 Documentation resources................................................................................ 13

Dell documentation.............................................................................................................................13

Scality documentation.........................................................................................................................13

10 Getting help....................................................................................................... 15

Contacting Dell....................................................................................................................................15

Documentation feedback................................................................................................................... 15

Quick resource locator........................................................................................................................15

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Introduction

This document provides information about supported software, firmware, and hardware versions for the
Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution. This solution is a storage building block based on
PowerEdge servers and Dell Storage, which enables you to deploy an ultra-dense storage platform paired
with Scality software. The Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution excels at deployment of
object-based storage on the petabyte scale. For more information see, Dell.com/sdscalityseriesmanuals.

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Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution rules

This section contains consideration rules when using the Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution.

NOTE: You can install the Supervisor server as a virtual machine.

Table 1. Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING Rules for Dell SD630-S server

Information Description

Minimum Memory

Connectors 64 GB

The required amount of memory (RAM) is related
to the number of objects and their average size.

Minimum number of Connectors File Storage: One

Minimum number of Supervisors One

Table 2. Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING Rules for Dell SD7000-S server

Information Description

Minimum number of physical storage servers

Minimum Memory

The required amount of memory (RAM) is related
to the number of objects and their average size.

Minimum Cache on RAID controller 1 GB

Minimum number of Connectors Object Storage: Two, directly installed on the Dell

Supervisor 32 GB

NOTE: Object storage connectors are
installed directly on the Dell SD7000-S server.

Dell SD7000-S Single Node: Six

Dell SD7000-S Dual Node: Three

192 GB

SD7000-S server.

NOTE: File storage connectors must be
installed on the Dell SD630-S server.

Minimum ratio of solid state drives (SSDs) to hard
disk drives (HDDs)

Minimum number of HDDs Dell SD7000-S Single Node: 20

1 SSD: 15 HDDs

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