[gpfsug-discuss] GUI server hardware requirements

[Jonathan Buzzard]

Never deployed these before, well slight lie did deploy a GUI server 
back in the 3.x days but it didn't do anything useful. I am now looking 
to deploy a pair of GUI servers for the ReST API support so we can run 
Kubernetes workloads.

The CPU and RAM requirements seem to be quite low. I have a some old 
spare servers that can be pressed into service for now that more than 
meet the these requirements with 8 cores and 144GB of RAM.

However it just vaguely says "local PV for DB". At the moment the two 
servers have a RAID6 array of 300GB 10k disks giving ~1TB of usable.

Is that sufficient space and will it be performant enough? Should I look 
to swap them for a RAID 1 of SSD's and what sort of capacity is needed 
for this local DB?


JAB.

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