Sizing for a Operations Management on Red Hat OpenShift deployment
Learn about the sizing requirements for a full Operations Management on OpenShift
deployment.
Hardware sizing for a full deployment on Red Hat OpenShift
| Category | Resource | Demo/PoC/Trial | Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| General sizing information | |||
| Event rate throughput | Steady state events per second | 50 | 1000 |
| Burst rate events per second | 200 | 2000 | |
| Environment options | Container size | Trial | Production |
| High availability | No | Yes | |
| Hardware sizing requirements | |||
OpenShift infrastructure node (Red Hat OpenShift client machine where Docker is installed)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 1 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 2 | |
| x86 CPUs | 2 | 4 | |
| Memory (GB) | 8 | 16 | |
| Disk (GB) | 500 | 500 | |
|
OpenShift control plane (master) node(s)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 3 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 3 | |
| x86 CPUs | 8 | 8 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 300 | 300 | |
|
IBM® common service node(s)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 2 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 3 | |
| x86 CPUs | 4 | 8 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 500 | 500 | |
|
OpenShift compute (worker) nodes
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 3 | 5 |
| Recommended node count | 4 | 6 | |
| x86 CPUs | 8 | 16 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 300 | 300 | |
| Service disk storage requirements (Gi) | NCI | 10 | 20 |
| LDAP | 1 | 1 | |
| DB2® | 5 | 5 | |
| NCO | 10 | 20 | |
| Kafka | 5 | 80 | |
| Cassandra | 100 | 600 | |
| Zookeeper | 5 | 15 | |
| CouchDB | 1 | 15 | |
| SCALA | 200 | 20 | |
| Service disk minimum IOPS requirements (Gi) | NCI | 100 | 200 |
| LDAP | 50 | 100 | |
| DB2 | 50 | 100 | |
| NCO | 100 | 200 | |
| Kafka | 200 | 800 | |
| Cassandra | 400® | 1500 | |
| Zookeeper | 50 | 100 | |
| CouchDB | 50 | 100 | |
| SCALA | 200 | 400 | |
| Total requirements Netcool® Operations Insight® including Red Hat OpenShift and common services infrastructure | |||
| Total number of node(s) | Minimum nodes count | 6 | 11 |
| Recommended nodes count | 7 | 14 | |
| x86 CPUs (minimum) | 44 | 136 | |
| x86 CPUs (recommended) | 52 | 176 | |
| Memory (GB) (minimum) | 88 | 336 | |
| Memory (GB) (recommended) | 104 | 416 | |
| Disk (GB) (minimum) | 2200 | 3900 | |
| Disk (GB) (recommended) | 2500 | 5200 | |
| Total service disk storage requirements (Gi) | 157 | 776 | |
| Total disk IOPS requirements | 1200 | 3500 | |
| Total requirements Netcool Operations Insight services only | |||
| Total number of node(s) | Minimum nodes count | 3 | 5 |
| Recommended nodes count | 4 | 6 | |
| x86 CPUs (minimum) | 24 | 80 | |
| x86 CPUs (recommended) | 32 | 96 | |
| Memory (GB) (minimum) | 48 | 160 | |
| Memory (GB) (recommended) | 64 | 192 | |
| Disk (GB) (minimum) | 900 | 1500 | |
| Disk (GB) (recommended) | 1200 | 1800 | |
| Total service disk storage sequirements (Gi) | 111 | 710 | |
| Total disk IOPS requirements | 700 | 2500 | |