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Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliances - Reference Architecture Deployment of PCF on XC Series with VMware vSphere environment.

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Table of contents Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.1 Objective ............................................................................................................................................................. 6

1.2 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 6

1.3 Terms .................................................................................................................................................................. 7

2 Technology overview .................................................................................................................................................... 8

2.1 Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances ............................................................................................ 8

2.1.1 Nutanix architecture ............................................................................................................................................ 9

2.2 Pivotal Cloud Foundry architecture .................................................................................................................. 10

3 Solution reference architecture .................................................................................................................................. 11

3.1 Network configuration ....................................................................................................................................... 11

3.2 Storage configuration ....................................................................................................................................... 13

4 Solution infrastructure components ............................................................................................................................ 14

4.1 Ops Manager .................................................................................................................................................... 14

4.2 Elastic Runtime ................................................................................................................................................. 15

4.3 Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI) ............................................................................................. 16

4.4 Apps Manager .................................................................................................................................................. 18

4.5 Nutanix Prism ................................................................................................................................................... 19

5 Configuring and setting up PCF on XC Series ........................................................................................................... 20

5.1 Solution validation............................................................................................................................................. 20

5.1.1 Hello World ....................................................................................................................................................... 21

5.1.2 Spring Music ..................................................................................................................................................... 21

6 Best practices ............................................................................................................................................................. 22

6.1 Pivotal Cloud Foundry ...................................................................................................................................... 22

6.1.1 Networking ........................................................................................................................................................ 22

6.1.2 Availability Zones .............................................................................................................................................. 23

6.1.3 Scaling .............................................................................................................................................................. 23

6.2 Dell EMC XC Series ......................................................................................................................................... 24

7 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 25

8 Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 26

9 Related resources ...................................................................................................................................................... 27


A Solution configuration details ..................................................................................................................................... 28

A.1 Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on XC Series in a VMware vSphere environment ............................................. 28

A.1.1 System configuration – XC Series with ESXi ................................................................................................... 28


Executive summary

The Dell EMC™ XC Series Hyper-converged Appliance powered by Nutanix™ delivers a highly resilient,

converged compute and storage platform that brings benefits of scalable architecture to business-critical

enterprise applications.

The XC Series platform is hypervisor agnostic and software installs quickly for deployment of multiple

virtualized workloads. The XC Series platform uses the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) which

delivers a unified pool of storage from all appliances across the cluster, using techniques including striping,

replication, auto-tiering, error detection, failover, and automatic recovery. The XC Series platform delivers

storage through multiple protocols such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is a platform agnostic cloud computing platform that provides an on-demand and scalable solution that enables rapid application development and deployment. It is hosted on virtualized services on on-premises private infrastructure as well as in the cloud. The combined solution allows developers and dev-ops professionals to quickly deploy a modern application

development platform on their on-premises infrastructure. The easy to use scaling functionality of the XC

Series and PCF allows the developer to focus on the application as a unit of scale rather than the

infrastructure or supporting services.

This document provides the reference architecture for deploying PCF onto Dell EMC XC Series hyper-

converged appliances in a VMware vSphere environment.


1 Introduction The purpose of this reference architecture is to demonstrate the deployment and configuration of Pivotal

Cloud Foundry on Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances.

1.1 Objective This paper presents:

An overview of the Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances

An overview of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)

An overview of how PCF integrates with the XC Series

Benefits of using PCF with XC Series

High-level configuration of XC Series with PCF installed

Reference to documents that convey detailed steps on how to deploy and configure PCF

Concluding thoughts on XC Series with PCF

1.2 Audience This document is intended for cloud architects, cloud operators, and technical administrators of IT

environments who want a guide that demonstrates Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on Dell EMC XC Series

Hyper-converged appliances in a VMware vSphere environment. You must be familiar with XC Series, Pivotal

Cloud Foundry technologies, VMware vSphere technologies, and have a basic familiarity with storage

virtualization, compute, and network technologies.

Business and end-user readers of this document must be familiar with general IT, cloud technologies, and

have an understanding of the relationship between their business, IT, and the application development

requirements that are part of multiple business units.

Note: This document provides a reference architecture that demonstrates deploying Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) based on a single-cluster configuration in a vSphere environment using minimal resources without NSX from VMware. This configuration is best used as a reference for a test lab or application development environment. It is not intended to be used in a production level environment. For more detailed best practices and other recommended reference architectures based on vSphere, refer to Reference Architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere located at: https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html



1.3 Terms Useful terminology

Term Description

Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)

DSF delivers a unified pool of storage from all appliances across the cluster, using techniques including striping, replication, auto-tiering, error detection, failover, and automatic recovery.

Distributed Distributed means all data, metadata, and operations are distributed across the entire cluster.

VMware NSX VMware NSX is a network virtualization and security platform. NSX enables the creation of entire networks in software and embeds them in the hypervisor layer. It’s an abstraction from the underlying physical hardware.

Scale-out Scale-out increases performance linearly by adding capacity one appliance at a time.

Software-defined Software-defined delivers all services through software using proven Dell EMC hardware.

XC Series Cluster XC Series cluster are a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that consolidates compute and storage into a single integrated appliance and creates a distributed virtual computing platform. Each appliance in the cluster runs an industry standard hypervisor and all the appliances work together to form a cluster which is scalable.

XC Series Container XC Series container is a logical segmentation of the storage pool and contains a group of VM or files.


2 Technology overview This reference architecture conveys deployment integration points of Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Dell EMC XC

Series Hyper-converged appliances.

2.1 Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances The Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances are a hyper-converged solution that combines storage,

compute, networking, and virtualization into an industry-proven x86 Dell PowerEdge™ server running Nutanix

software. By combining the hardware resources from each server appliance into a shared-everything model

for simplified operations, improved agility, and greater flexibility, Dell EMC and Nutanix together deliver

simple, cost-effective solutions for enterprise workloads. Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) delivers a

unified pool of storage from all appliances across the cluster, using techniques including striping, replication,

auto-tiering, error detection, failover, and automatic recovery.

The XC Series infrastructure is a scalable cluster of high-performance appliances, or servers, each running a

standard hypervisor and containing processors, memory, and local storage (consisting of solid state disk

(SSD) flash for high performance and high-capacity SATA disk drives). Each appliance runs virtual machines

just like a standard hypervisor host as displayed in Figure 1.

Nutanix appliance architecture


2.1.1 Nutanix architecture Nutanix software provides a hyper-converged platform that uses DSF to share and present local storage to all

the virtual machines in the cluster. The general Nutanix architecture is shown in Figure 2.

Nutanix architecture

DSF virtualizes the storage across all appliances and presents the same to the hypervisor as one large pool

of shared storage. The DSF replicates writes synchronously to at least one remote XC Series appliances to

ensure cluster resiliency and availability. Local storage for each XC Series appliance in the architecture is

presented as one large pool of shared storage to hypervisor.

In addition, DSF virtualizes local storage from all appliances into a unified pool. DSF uses local SSDs and

disks from all appliances to store virtual machine data. Virtual machines running on the cluster write data to

DSF as if they were writing to shared storage.

XC Series offers customer choice of hypervisors without being locked-in. The hypervisors covered in this

reference architecture are:

VMware® ESXi®

In addition, the solution includes the Nutanix Controller VM (CVM), which runs the Nutanix software and

serves I/O operations for the hypervisor and all VMs running on that host. Each CVM connects directly to the

local storage controller and its associated disks thereby reducing the storage I/O latency. The data locality

feature ensures virtual machine I/O is served by the local CVM on the same hypervisor appliance, improving

the VM I/O performance regardless of where it runs.


2.2 Pivotal Cloud Foundry architecture Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides an enterprise-ready Cloud Native platform that abstracts virtualized

compute/storage/network resources and software stacks into an application platform especially well-suited to

run modern micro-services based applications.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is a commercial version of Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) that

supplies developers with a ready-to-use cloud computing environment with application services.

All of the application services are hosted by virtualized servers on existing on-premises (private) or off-

premises (public) infrastructure.

PCF is a structured cloud-native platform that is made up of standardized components and enables

developers with a rich set of services for deploying, scaling and managing the application lifecycles.

PCF enables operator visibility and control to manage the platform. The base PCF functionality that we

deployed in this RA offers the following features:

Ops Manager

Application deployment and management

Polyglot (frameworks, languages, and services)

Container management

User management with role based access

Performance monitoring and reporting

Centralized log aggregation

Security

Fault tolerance and multiple resilience levels


3 Solution reference architecture By combining Pivotal Cloud Foundry with XC Series in a VMware vSphere environment, enterprises can

painlessly create a full-featured, tightly integrated cloud platform based on open technologies.

The solution used for this RA was an on-premises (private) infrastructure that reflected the deployment of

PCF and promotion of applications onto PCF. The underlying infrastructure was based on the Dell EMC

XC630-10 appliance.

See Appendix A for details on the hardware and software configurations.

Figure 3 shows the PCF stack deployed on an ESXi hypervisor that is associated with a multi-TB container.

Dell EMC XC Series hyper-converged appliances with PCF overview.

XC Series and PCF are designed for maximum availability. They offer zero downtime upgrades to both

platform and applications. PCF enables developers to code in multiple languages and frameworks. PCF offers

a cloud computing environment for application developed services, all hosted on a scalable XC Series.

3.1 Network configuration Figure 4 shows the network topology and interconnects used for this solution. This solution uses Dell

Networking S4048-ON switches.

Dell EMC recommends a minimum of two 10 GbE interfaces for each host. Each host should connect to dual

redundant switches for network path redundancy.


Network components

Components Description

Data and management network 10 GbE switch

XC internode connection (VM traffic) 10 GbE switch

iDRAC inband network 1 GbE switch

Cabling SATA

Relationships between the different hardware layers and networking interconnects


3.2 Storage configuration The XC Series provides virtualization at the storage layer. PCF VMs are all deployed onto containers that

have been created from pooled storage that is available from the XC Series Cluster. The PRISM

management GUI allows the customer to create the needed container datastores.

Containers are created from storage pools. In order to create a container you would select from the preferred

storage pool and mount the ESXi hosts to the container. See image below for an example of creating a

container.

View of Prism - XC Series Container provisioning

See Appendix A for details of hardware and software resources used for this RA.


4 Solution infrastructure components The two main PCF components that you must install to stand-up PCF are Ops Manager and the Elastic

Runtime:

Ops Manager is used to install and manage PCF products and services. It is used to deploy and

manage PCF and associated services.

Elastic Runtime hosts the running applications and provides client access to the runtime environment.

Specific prerequisites must be adhered to before any deployment occurs, including:

Reservation of a range of IP addresses

Specific DNS entries for app hostnames pointing to the PCF router or your own load balancer

Firewall and TCP port management

Underlying XC Series Cluster must contain a minimum of 80 CPU cores For more information on Pivotal vSphere Requirements, go to: http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/vsphere.html

4.1 Ops Manager The Operations Manager (Ops Manager) is a GUI web application used to deploy and manage a Pivotal

Cloud Foundry (PCF). It is available through all major browsers. PCF foundational components and additional

tiles (services) can be deployed and configured through this web application.

For more information about how to use Ops Manager, go to:

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/index.html

Ops Manager Director – manages the PCF install

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/vsphere.html

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/index.html


4.2 Elastic Runtime Elastic Runtime is a complete, scalable runtime environment, extensible to most modern frameworks or

languages running on Linux. Deployed applications enjoy built-in services and can automatically bind to new

data services through a service broker or to an existing user-provided service.

For more information about Elastic Runtime, go to:

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/concepts/index.html

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/concepts/index.html


4.3 Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI) The Cloud Foundry CLI offers a rich set of commands to manage PCF after it is deployed. An alternative to

using cf CLI is the visual interface called Apps Manager.

Note: Apps Manager is a subset of cf CLI functionality. For more information about all the CLI commands, go

to: https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/cf-cli/index.html

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/cf-cli/index.html


View of cf CLI management


4.4 Apps Manager Apps Manager is a web-based tool to help manage organizations, spaces, applications, services, and users.

Apps Manager provides a visual interface for performing the following subset of functions available through

the Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI):

Orgs: Create, manage, and delete orgs.

Spaces: Create, manage, and delete spaces.

Apps: Scale apps, bind apps to services, manage environment variables and routes, view logs and

usage information, start and stop apps, and delete apps.

Services: Bind services to apps, unbind services from apps, choose and edit service plans, and

rename and delete service instances.

Users: Invite new users, manage user roles, and delete users.

For more information about how to use Apps Manager, go to:

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/console/index.html

View of Apps Manager

http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/console/index.html


4.5 Nutanix Prism Prism is a rich graphical HTML-based management console for configuring, managing, and monitoring all

components within the infrastructure. It provides excellent performance monitoring and analytic capabilities. It

also gathers certain data from VMware vSphere and displays all relevant information through a single Prism

interface.

Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) virtualizes the storage across all nodes and presents the same to

the hypervisor as one large pool of shared storage.

Local storage for each XC Series node in the architecture is presented as one large pool of shared storage to

the hypervisor. The storage on the XC Series appliances is presented in 2 layers: “Storage Pools” and

“Containers”.

A container is a partition that is abstracted from the storage pool and presented to the hypervisor. This

container acts as the datastore in case of ESXi hypervisor. The Container(s) provide the datastores that will

be used for deployment of the required PCF VMs.

Nutanix Prism


5 Configuring and setting up PCF on XC Series Use this overview of required setup steps to properly deploy PCF and for application support.

Required configuration and setup steps

Task Description

Creating containers in PRISM Prior to PCF deployment, you must create a storage container in PRISM. This is the location where PCF VMs will be deployed.

Deploy and configure Operations Manager

Operations Manager provides a graphical interface to manage the deployment and upgrade of PCF components like Elastic Runtime, additional services, and partner products.

Deploy and configure Elastic Runtime

Elastic Runtime is a complete, scalable runtime environment, extensible to most modern frameworks or languages running on Linux. Deployed applications enjoy built-in services and can automatically bind to new data services through a service broker or to an existing user-provided service.

Create, obtain and push applications to PCF

Create or obtain applications to push to PCF

For detailed information about how to deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged

appliances, see the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on VMware vSphere using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged

Appliances Deployment Guide found at

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/11457.advanced-materials

5.1 Solution validation To validate the PCF solution that was deployed on the XC Series, there were two applications that were

pushed: Dotnet Core Hello World app and the Spring Music app from the Cloud Foundry samples at Github.

These applications were pushed to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) deployment to verify that the PCF

solutions was deployed properly. The web pages for each application were accessed from a remote system.

For more details on how the applications were downloaded, prepared, pushed, and validated, see the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on VMware vSphere using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged Appliances Deployment

Guide found at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/11457.advanced-materials


https://github.com/cloudfoundry-samples



5.1.1 Hello World Image below shows the result of the Hello World application that was pushed to PCF deployment.

5.1.2 Spring Music Image below shows the result of the Spring Music application that was pushed to PCF deployment.


6 Best practices

NOTE: The configuration used in this reference architecture is best used for a test lab or application

development environment. However, the best practices outlined below are for use in a production level

environment.

6.1 Pivotal Cloud Foundry For the XC Series Cluster, start with a minimum of 80 cores to support a standard PCF deployment.

Start with a minimum size of 2 TB when creating an XC Series container datastore. This is where PCF will be

creating and deploying all of its required services VMs. In addition, it allows for further scaling to support

application development and promotion.

For best practice considerations for designing and running applications in PCF, go to:

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/devguide/deploy-apps/prepare-to-deploy.html

For more information about best practice considerations for Cloud Foundry Security, go to:

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/security/index.html

6.1.1 Networking This RA focuses on the deployment of PCF on XC Series appliances. The appliances, networks, and

interconnects deployed were required for a stand-alone XC Series Cluster with High-Availability (HA) applied

at the XC Series appliance level (meeting the requirement of 3+ appliances in a cluster).

For the PCF deployment, the networking design consisted of a single VLAN with 50 IP addresses reserved for

infrastructure and PCF resources.

For more detail on the network topology that was used, see chapter 3.1.

Note: For each PCF deployment, Pivotal recommends at least 4 networks: Infrastructure, Deployment, CF

Tiles, and Dynamic Services.

For more details and best practices on Networking for PCF, see the Reference Architecture for Pivotal Cloud

Foundry on vSphere at:

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html#networking

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/devguide/deploy-apps/prepare-to-deploy.html

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/security/index.html

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html#networking


6.1.2 Availability Zones AZs are a functionally independent segment of network infrastructure that are assigned by an operator.

Availability Zones (AZs) are assigned to a cluster and resource pool in vSphere.

During product updates and platform upgrades, the VMs in a deployment restart in succession, rendering

them temporarily unavailable. During outages, VMs go down in a less orderly way. Spreading components

across Availability Zones and scaling them to a sufficient level of redundancy maintains high availability

during both upgrades and outages and can ensure zero downtime.

Deploying Pivotal Cloud Foundry across three or more AZs and assigning multiple component instances to

different AZ locations lets a deployment operate uninterrupted when entire AZs become unavailable. Pivotal

Cloud Foundry maintains its availability as long as a majority of the AZs remain accessible. For example, a

three-AZ deployment stays up when one entire AZ goes down, and a five-AZ deployment can withstand an

outage of up to two AZs with no impact on uptime.

Note: For each PCF deployment, Pivotal recommends 3 Availability Zones. Each AZ should correspond to

one of the resource pools from each cluster.

For more details and best practices for the implementation and use of Availability Zones, see the Reference

Architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere at:


6.1.3 Scaling XC Series Cluster scaling allows simplicity in the vSphere design. Adding any additional appliances increases

compute plus storage capacity. You can allocate any additional storage for each scaling to vSphere through

the context of an XC Series container.

Note: There is no downtime involved anywhere in scaling out a Dell EMC XC Series Cluster.

To scale (expand) an XC Series cluster, use XC Series tools (like PRISM) to add another appliance to the

cluster. After an additional appliance is added to the cluster, the XC Series storage pool’s capacity will be

expanded.

See following link for more details for XC Series cluster scaling: (Requires login to Nutanix Portal)

https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId==Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50:Web-Console-

Guide-Prism-v50


https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId==Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50:Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50

https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId==Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50:Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v50


When XC Series clusters are scaled out by adding appliances, PCF can scale out with the added capacity.

Additionally, the number PCF instances can be increased as well by adding additional resource pools. For

more details about Scaling, see the Reference Architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere go to:

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html#scale

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/concepts/high-availability.html

6.2 Dell EMC XC Series For more information about the latest technical content and best practices for the XC Series, go to the

following link:


https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html#scale

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/concepts/high-availability.html



7 Conclusion The reference architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment on XC Series is tested and designed for fast

deployment, ease of scale, and simple operation of Pivotal Cloud Foundry infrastructure. PCF is a simple,

scalable and agile cloud native solution, with enhanced security and automation.

By combining PCF with XC Series, customers can achieve the following for their business IT solutions:

Rapid time to value with greater agility and security

Infrastructure on demand, which offers predictable cost and performance

Mission critical data services for ultimate efficiency

PCF vertical and horizontal scaling available through XC Series scaling

XC Series exceeds all minimum infrastructure requirements for PCF on vSphere for small to large PCF

deployments.

The number of application instances pushed to PCF is dependent on the total available resources and

requirements of each application.

Using XC Series as the hardware platform of choice simplifies and accelerates the time to value and lets you

quickly scale up to support larger PCF deployments.

For detailed steps that demonstrates the deployment of PCF on a Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged

appliances, see the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on VMware vSphere using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged

Appliances Deployment Guide found at:


For more detailed best practices and other recommended reference architectures based on vSphere, refer to

Reference Architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere located at: https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-

9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html





8 Technical support and resources Dell.com/support is focused on meeting customer needs with proven services and

support.Dell.com/support is focused on meeting customer needs with proven services and support.

Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances Solution is an online technical community where IT

professionals have access to numerous resources for Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged appliances.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Products/ser_stor_net/engi_soln/dell_xc_websle_conv_appliances

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Products/ser_stor_net/engi_soln/dell_xc_websle_conv_appliances

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/11454.dell-emc-xc-series-hyper-converged-solution


9 Related resources See the following referenced or recommended resources related to this document:

Note: The links below are open to customers although some may require registration for access.

Nutanix Bible: http://nutanixbible.com/

Nutanix blog: http://longwhiteclouds.com/

Acropolis Block Services: http://go.nutanix.com/rs/031-GVQ-112/images/acropolis-block-services.pdf

Reference Architecture for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere: https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-

9/refarch/vsphere/vsphere_ref_arch.html

Pivotal PCF Install Instructions on vSphere: https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-

9/customizing/vsphere.html

For sizing estimates and guidance on the total amount of resources that are required for PCF, go to

the PCF Sizing Tool site located at: http://pcfsizer.cfapps.io/

Dell EMC Tech Center for XC Series:

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/11454.dell-emc-xc-series-hyper-converged-

solution

http://nutanixbible.com/

http://longwhiteclouds.com/

http://go.nutanix.com/rs/031-GVQ-112/images/acropolis-block-services.pdf



https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/vsphere.html

https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/1-9/customizing/vsphere.html

http://pcfsizer.cfapps.io/




A Solution configuration details

A.1 Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) on XC Series in a VMware vSphere

environment

For information about how to deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry on a Dell EMC XC Series solution, see the Pivotal Cloud Foundry on VMware vSphere using Dell EMC XC Series Hyper-converged Appliances Deployment

Guide found at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/11457.advanced-materials

A.1.1 System configuration – XC Series with ESXi

XC Series with ESXi system configuration

System configuration: hardware and software components Description

XC Series 4 x XC630-10 @ 1U:

Firmware/BIOS: 2.3.4

Hypervisor: ESXi 6.0 u1 + (KB 2125229 and KB 2120255)

AOS: 4.7.5.2

2 x Intel Xeon® CPU E5-2630 v4 2.20 Ghz

384 GB RAM (16 x 32 GB DIMMS)

2 x 800GB SATA SSD drives

8 x 1TB SATA drives

1 x Intel ® X520

Several PCF VMs were installed on XC appliance.

PCF Management Ops Manager: 1.9.6.0

Elastic Runtime: v1.9.11-build 6

Key PCF components deployed.

PCF VMs PCF VMs

Hosted on XC Container - Capacity: 4 TB

Several VMs created by PCF standard deployment.

Network 2 x Dell Networking S4048-ON switches

Dual redundant switches were used for high availability

Monitoring Nutanix Prism

VMware vCenter

Apps Manager

cf CLI

Monitoring for XC Series Cluster is done using Nutanix PRISM and vCenter. PCF Apps Manager for monitoring PCF and applications. cf CLI also covers levels of management.


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