AltosCloud HCI FAQ Version 1.
1. General ................................................................................................................................... 3 2. License .................................................................................................................................... 5 3. Network .................................................................................................................................. 6 4. High Availability .................................................
1. General 1.1 What is AltosCloud HCI? ANSWER: AltosCloud HCI is a fully HCI (hyper-converged infrastructure) platform optimized to provide highperformance IO for network and storage traffic to and from virtual machines or containers. The AltosCloud HCI is based on Sunlight NexVisor HCI and composed of the following parts.
ANSWER: AltosCloud HCI provides a web interface dashboard. You can use the dashboard to manage your AltosCloud HCI cluster. AltosCloud HCI also provides SIM (Sunlight Infrastructure Manager) for you to manage multiple AltosCloud HCI clusters. 1.5 Does AltosCloud HCI protect data through hardware RAID? ANSWER: No, AltosCloud HCI does not need hardware RAID. Currently, AltosCloud HCI provides data mirroring across physical nodes via SDS (software-defined storage).
2. License 2.1 What are the license types? ANSWER: AltosCloud HCI license is based on per node. Not by CPU sockets or CPU cores. There are two editions: AltosCloud HCI Datacenter edition and AltosCloud HCI Edge edition, with different subscription prices. The license is a subscription-based license and includes platform support, maintenance, and upgrades during the subscription period. 2.2 Can I use AltosCloud HCI without license? ANSWER: AltosCloud HCI requires activation before you can use it.
3. Network 3.1 I see only a pair of Physical NIC 0 and Physical NIC 1 in Network of AltosCloud HCI Dashboard. Does it apply to physical NIC 0 & NIC 1 of all nodes? ANSWER: Yes, it is referring to all nodes. All nodes in the AltosCloud HCI cluster should have the same configuration, such as # of disk drives, # of NICs. The Physical NIC 0 and Physical NIC 1 present all eth0 and eth1 network ports of nodes in the cluster.
4. High Availability 4.1 How does AltosCloud HCI support HA (High Availability)? ANSWER: Please refer to the URL http://docs.sunlight.io/high_availability, the diagram on this page should be a good reference. The deployment using this architecture can provide full high availability of node, network and storage. (Note.
5. More Information 5.1 Where can I get more information about AltosCloud HCI? ANSWER: Since AltosCloud HCI is based on Sunlight NexVisor HCI, if you want to know more about AltosCloud HCI, please refer to the following URL. FAQ https://docs.sunlight.io/faqs/ User Guide https://docs.sunlight.io/ YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0MviqGnG5-vLDD1u-fcupw Supported features http://docs.sunlight.io/supported_features_4.0.20/ Performance Benchmarks https://performance.sunlight.