Hello all,
i'm in discussions with a customer on a "to-be-sold" HyperFlex Edge 3-Node-Cluster, which should have at least a bit of "stretched"-flavour, due to customer's limited budget.
The customer asked, if it's possible to separate the servers and transfer the traffic via multiple switches, as seen in the following schematic view:
So setup should be as follows:
- 3 Firezones,
- Location A to Location B is about 30 meters cabling distance, 10G Multimode-fiber is planned
- Location C to Location A & B is about 90 meters cabling distance, 10G Multimode-fiber is planned
- each server is connected to the local single switch using 10G AOC-cables
- Switches should all be Cat 930024T-E with 8x10G fiber module
I tried to find some more information about the maximum accepted RTT for the traffic within the HyperFlex system, but i understand of course, that this is not the normal case to set up the system. Customer has only a limited budget and going for a stretched cluster(what i of course also would prefer) is not an option. So if there is a technical limitation for this setup i'll think of a different architectural approach.
Theoretical i think, that it may work in the provided setup, but i know the switches cause some delay... So i'd appreciate to get some opinions or some comments, maybe some of you already built such a system
Many thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Christian
