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40GB of shared storage, configured as two datastores.
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1 Gigabit Ethernet VLAN.
This VLAN will carry Data Director network traffic.
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One or more Gigabit Ethernet VLANs for one or more database networks.
Database networks carry SQL traffic to and from Data Director databases. Database clients such as JDBC
and libpq send and receive SQL traffic from database servers on these networks. Data Director supports
multiple database networks for better network isolation, for example, to isolate QA SQL traffic from
production SQL traffic. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Network Configuration,” on page 15.
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Hardware to run the test application.
Check with your company's network administrators or IT staff to determine a setup that is appropriate for
your organization. For example, one possible setup for a 4-VLAN configuration is as follows.
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4 ESXi servers with 64GB of RAM combined.
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1 vCenter Server.
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1 Windows system for running vSphere Client.
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500GB of shared storage configured as two or more datastores.
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4 Gigabit Ethernet VLANs.
These Gigabit Ethernet VLANs will carry Data Director network traffic.
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One or more Gigabit Ethernet VLANs for one or more database networks.
Database networks will carry SQL traffic to and from Data Director databases. Database clients such as
JDBC and libpq send and receive SQL traffic from database servers on these networks. Data Director
supports multiple database networks for better network isolation, for example, to isolate QA SQL traffic
from production SQL traffic. See Chapter 2, “Planning the Network Configuration,” on page 15.
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Hardware to run the test application
Data Director licensing supports up to 8 vCPUs.
Data Director provides several database configuration templates in different sizes: tiny, small, medium, large,
and giant. You can estimate the resources that your Data Director deployment requires based on your
installation's expected database sizes. For example, a database instance that uses the Tiny database
configuration template has the following settings.
Table 1-1. Settings for a Tiny Database Configuration
Resource Setting
vCPUs 1
Memory size 512MB
Recommended database storage allocation 5GB
For a base installation that uses the Tiny database template, use a cluster with the following CPU and memory
resources.
Table 1-2. Resource Requirements for a Base Installation Using the Tiny Database Template
Resource Requirements
CPU 4GHz and an additional 400 MHz for each database instance
Memory 8GB of available memory and an additional 512 MB of available memory for each database instance
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