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The nodes form a networked cluster with a minimum of two nodes or three nodes for scale-out clusters with a maximum of 64 nodes. The nodes are enclosed in a one-node, single-server system, with each node having one, two, or four multicore processors and either all-flash solid-state disks (SSDs) or a hybrid mix of flash SSDs and hard disk drives (HDDs). Memory capacity ranges from 64 GB to 6,144 GB per node, depending on the model. They are configured with either Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors.
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VxRail hardware consists of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. VxRail Manager-Plug-in for VMware vCenter.The components that make up a VxRail configuration are as follows: The underlying resources are abstracted and pooled together which allows them to be dynamically allocated to applications running in Virtual Machines (VMs) or containers. An HCI system includes, at a minimum, compute, software-defined storage, and virtualized networking and can run on commercial off-the-shelf servers. VxRail is a preconfigured VMware hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Please refer to PTC and Apache documentation for software-level HA capabilities. Multiple connection servers do provide redundancy, horizontal scale, and failover aspects. This minimizes the complexity of the solution and allows us to leverage VxRail HA and redundancy aspects. Note : In this solution, we use a single-node PTC ThingWorx deployment, and no PTC connection servers are involved. The following sections describe the architecture components used for the Dell Technologies Manufacturing Edge Reference Architecture with PTC.