HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica
Getting Started Guide
Abstract
This document provides an overview of the HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica appliance. It is intended to be used by system
administrators and technical professionals involved with planning, operations, and administration of the appliance or database.
HP Part Number: 5900-3765
Published: March 2014
Edition: 1
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The HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Vertica is a purpose-built solution developed through collaborative
engineering efforts between the HP ConvergedSystems Engineering Team and HP Vertica. Designed
to simplify the implementation and management of real time analytic applications, HP CS300
Vertica provides excellent performance through Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) technology.
The HP CS300 Vertica architecture enables distributed query execution, where each query executes
on all HP Vertica clusters in parallel. This architecture gives the HP CS300 Vertica application
system the speed to provide user queries with significantly higher levels of I/O throughput than is
available on a scale-up symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system.
Table 1 Related documentation
LocationTopic
HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 Server User GuideHP ProLiant Gen8 Server
HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server User Guide
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility
Who should use this guide
This document is intended for system administrators and database administrators. Knowledge of
Linux and SQL commands is required.
Management Console DemoHP Vertica Webinars
Semi structured data
4Overview
2 The HP CS300 Vertica appliance
This section provides information about your servers and will help you to locate components in
your HP CS300 Vertica appliance.
The appliance arrives at your location in a default configuration with pre-loaded software as shown
in Table 2: “Appliance configuration”.
Table 2 Appliance configuration
Configuration
HP Vertica server
2 Management
servers
• HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server
• 2U Rack form factor
• Two Intel Xeon E5–2690v2 (CPU)
• Ethernet 10Gb 2P 561FLR-T FIO adapter
• Two 300GB 6G SAS 10K 2.5in SC ENT HDD
• Twenty-three 600GB 6G SAS 10K 2.5in SC ENT HDD
• Two 750W CS Plat PL hot plug power supply kit
• 128 GB (eight 16GB 2Rx4 PC3–14900R-13 kit)
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility – 3 year 24x7 Flex license
• HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server
• 1U Rack form factor
• One Intel Xeon E5–2660 v2 (CPU)
• 64 GB (four 16GB 2Rx4 PC3–14900R-13 kit) memory
• Four 600 GB 6G SAS 10K 2.5in SC ENT HDD
• Ethernet 10 Gb 2P 51FLR-T FIO adapter
• Two 460W CS Plat PL hot plug power supply kit
HP Insight Control
HP Vertica Analytics Platform
HP Insight Control Flex license
RHEL Server 2 Skt 1 Guest 24x7 3 year license
HP Insight Cluster Management Utility – 3 year 24x7 Flex license
HP Insight Remote Support Advanced
Operating System — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
Operating System — Windows server 2012
HP 5900AF-48XGT 4QSFP+ switchNetworking
• Forty-eight RJ-45 1/10GbE ports
• Four QSFP+ 40–GbE ports
• One RJ-45 serial console port
• One RJ-45 out-of-band management port
• One USB 2.0
3 year — 4 hour 24x7 Proactive CareSupport
TIP:Serial numbers are listed on the Linux management server in the /opt/hp/CS300/
CS300SN.log file and on each physical device.
5
Appliance overview
The appliance is scalable from 3 to 16 servers per rack as shown in “Hardware configuration”
(page 6). There are two management servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Microsoft
Windows Server, respectively. The Linux server supports HP Vertica and cluster management. The
Windows server manages HP Insight Control and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced.
TIP:HP recommends configuring in multiples of 4 per rack.
Figure 1 Hardware configuration
The appliance uses a simple naming convention to distinguish servers. Each server is represented
using the rack number, server type, and server number as shown below.
•rxxx — rack number
•dd — indicates type
vn — Vertica server◦
◦mn — Management server
◦sw — Ethernet switch
◦pd — Power distribution unit
•yyy — number in the rack
The example in Figure 2: “Appliance naming convention” (page 7) shows the management
servers using the naming conventions.
r001mn002 — Windows management server
r001mn001 — Linux management server
6The HP CS300 Vertica appliance
Figure 2 Appliance naming convention
Installation
During the HP CS300 Vertica Installation & Startup Service, your appliance was connected using
either 10Gb or 1Gb Ethernet and configured for your corporate network. Your organization
supplied passwords and IP addresses to HP Technical Services. For a high-level overview of your
configuration, including IP addresses, see the file at /opt/hp/CS300/HPCS300.xml on the
Linux management server (r001mn001), as shown in “IP addresses” (page 8).
IMPORTANT:Do not edit or change the /opt/hp/CS300/HPCS300.xml file.
Appliance overview7
Figure 3 IP addresses
NOTE:There are two HP 40GbE QSFP+ ports per switch. Each 40 GbE QSFP+ port is convertible
to 10GbE SFP+ with an adapter. Two adapters are provided with each rack.
In addition, there are thirty 1GbE/10GbE RJ45 ports per switch.
There are two Ethernet switches, each switch with fourteen available ports, for a total of fifty-six
available 10Gb/1Gb ports on both switches. There are also two 40Gb ports on each switch.
TIP:HP recommends assigning Ethernet ports beginning at port 44 and working backward,
ending at port 17.
Available ports are shown in “Ethernet ports” (page 8).
Figure 4 Ethernet ports
8The HP CS300 Vertica appliance
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