
Appliance overview
The appliance is scalable from 3 to 16 servers per rack as shown in “Hardware configuration”
(page 6). There are two management servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Microsoft
Windows Server, respectively. The Linux server supports HP Vertica and cluster management. The
Windows server manages HP Insight Control and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced.
TIP: HP recommends configuring in multiples of 4 per rack.
Figure 1 Hardware configuration
The appliance uses a simple naming convention to distinguish servers. Each server is represented
using the rack number, server type, and server number as shown below.
• rxxx — rack number
• dd — indicates type
vn — Vertica server◦
◦ mn — Management server
◦ sw — Ethernet switch
◦ pd — Power distribution unit
• yyy — number in the rack
The example in Figure 2: “Appliance naming convention” (page 7) shows the management
servers using the naming conventions.
r001mn002 — Windows management server
r001mn001 — Linux management server
6 The HP CS300 Vertica appliance
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