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| Install system from USB drive |
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Single image required for Master and Slave installations |
| Initialise NVMe drives |
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Will be possible to execute at runtime via the UI soon |
| Initialise installation drive |
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Installation drive must be presented as a SCSI compatible device (e.g. SATA or SAS) or NVMe device |
| Install to local disk |
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| Configure IP settings of the dashboard |
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| Set cluster-wide shared encryption key |
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| Configure internal channel mode |
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| Configure external VLAN mode |
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External 802.1Q VLAN switch compatible |
| Configure dedicated Physical NIC MAC addresses for non management traffic mode |
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| Upgrade support |
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| System upgrade support followed by reboot of the cluster |
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Upgrade must currently be requested from he Sunlight support team. |
| Self-initiated system upgrade support |
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Coming soon |
| System upgrade support with live patching, no reboot required |
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Coming soon |
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| Infrastructure Management |
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| Overall infrastructure stats presentation on main dashboard page |
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| Rack/Chassis/Blade visualisation - drag and drop |
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| Chassis placement in rack visualisation tool |
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| Visualisation on blade and chassis positioning |
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| Fault tolerance visualisation |
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| Per compute node core stats presentation |
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| Physical resources utilisation |
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| Physical memory utilisation per node |
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| Ability to reboot nodes from the UI |
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| Drive utilisation and datastore membership |
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| Storage replica repair (manual UI) |
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| Storage replica repair (CLI/API) |
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| Automated storage repair on reboot |
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| Storage replica repair (automated) |
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Coming soon |
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| License Key management and enforcement |
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| License system tied to hardware |
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| License system tied to number of nodes |
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| License system tied to time period |
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| Add/remove licences via the dashboard |
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| Automated addition of new Nexvisor nodes |
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| Power on Nexvisor nodes and auto discover them via the UI |
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Requires physical installation and correct channel/encryption key settings |
| Simple install and deploy |
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| PXE boot auto deployment of new nodes |
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Used extensively in our internal labs, will be productised soon |
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| Resource groups |
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| Create resource groups that include individual cores, storage and network resources |
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We do not impose memory assignment restrictions on the resource group level |
| Create fault tolerance policies for VM running within those groups |
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Fault tolerance policy currently tested and supported across blades. Full support for chassis and rack fault tolerance will be released soon. |
| Create metadata disk from the UI to facilitate restore of master node in the event of a failure |
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During this process template images are not restored. An action via the UI is required in order to re-download the templates |
| Visualisation of physical resources assigned to a group |
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| Overcommit policy for virtual to physical core allocation |
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| vCPU to pCPU pinning |
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| vNUMA architecture enablement |
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Physical NUMA architecture is supported at the hypervisor level, but presenting a corresponding virtual NUMA architecture to the VM is not yet enabled |
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| Software Defined Storage |
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| Group NVMe drives together into datastores |
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| Assign different replication policies per datastore |
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| concatenate volumes together into larger volume - striping |
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| take storage level snapshots for fast clone and backup |
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| move content around between physical drives |
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Requires assistance from support team |
| achieve 1M IOPs for virtualised IO |
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Requires guest support to achieve best performance - Multiqueue block support + recent kernel. See user docs for configuration requirements. |
| Physical NVMe drive hotplug removal/addition |
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| Software Defined Network |
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| Attach to physical subnet |
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| Attach to virtual network created between VMs running across cluster |
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| Aggregate physical network paths to create high bandwidth channel |
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| Create VLAN networks in software and attach to switch trunk interfaces |
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| VLAN Network Fault Tolerance |
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In case one of the available NICs attached to a VLAN virtual network fails, an alternative one will be automatically available to take over the connectivity |
| Allocate IP addresses via DHCP |
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| Allocate IP addresses statically |
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VMs get an IP automatically from a statically assigned block of IPs. The user can change the IP given to a specific one as a separate step via the UI. Windows users have an additional step of manually changing the network details inside the VM after changing the IP |
| Allow external DHCP service to allocate IP addresses |
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| MAC address passthrough for physical NICs to virtual NICs |
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Only on AWS at the moment |
| MAC address masking for passthrough NICs to support VM motion |
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Only on AWS at the moment |
| Physical NIC cable removal, link up/down |
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| IPv6 enable |
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| VM instances |
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| Fully supported list of tested instances declared with each release |
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| Deploy instances from template library |
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| Manage template library to add/remove templates from customer own on-prem private template repo |
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| Manage template library to add/remove templates from Sunlight hosted private customer template repo |
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Self-service Template upload support provided, template deletion must be requested via support ticket |
| Create flavours to describe resource attributes for instances |
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| Add multiple volume drives to a VM (3 supported) |
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| Add multiple volume drives to a VM , format accordingly and attach to any mount point |
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Must be handled by admin within the VM |
| Manage the extra vDisks from the UI, extra disk vs long term standing vDisks |
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Coming soon |
| Add multiple virtual NIC interfaces to a VM |
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Is not supported for VMs booted from CD/ISO |
| Edit VM size attributes - add more vCPU, RAM, storage and network resources |
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Adding VIFs is not supported for VMs booted from CD/ISO |
| Move a VM between physical nodes in a cluster (Cold migration) |
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| Move a VM between physical nodes in a cluster (Warm migration) |
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| Move a VM between physical nodes in a cluster (Hot migration) |
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| VM functionality - reboot - linux |
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| VM functionality - reboot - windows |
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| VM functionality - upgrade linux |
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For HVM linux VMs, the distro upgrade currently is not reflected on the UI as the new distro version of the VM. |
| VM functionality - upgrade windows |
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| VM functionality - console access linux |
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| VM functionality - console access windows |
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| nexvisor |
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| Reboot nexvisor |
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| Fail over master node (automated) |
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Once the master node fails, the failover master node starts to provide services by recovering the failed node |
| Single NV image to install |
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Used installation images limited to one |
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| container and VM cluster support |
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| Deploy VM cluster |
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| Deploy Docker swarm clusters, fully configured |
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We are using Ubuntu 16.04 and Docker 18.03 as our base docker enabled distribution |
| Deploy docker to different OS |
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Requires external scripts (e.g. ansible) |
| Deploy different docker version |
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Requires external scripts (e.g. ansible) |
| Manage number of masters and slaves from the UI |
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| Deploy Portainer UI to manage the cluster |
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The current version of portainer installed is 1.19.2 which is tested and working with the current docker template version |
| Kubernetes cluster deployment support |
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We are using an third party deployment script in Ansible |
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| AWS environment support |
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| AWS floating IP assignment to VM instance vif |
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Requires Sunlight AWS dashboard |
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| Application testing |
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| MySQL |
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Manual testing as documented via Sunlight performance portal |
| PostgreSQL |
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Manual testing as documented via Sunlight performance portal |
| Oracle DB |
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Manual testing as documented via Sunlight performance portal |
| Hadoop |
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Manual testing as documented via Sunlight performance portal |
| Fio |
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| iperf |
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| External API support |
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| Full documentation for API support |
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| Full API support for all operations |
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| CLI utility for non-UI based management |
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Tool exists but not exposed to system admins yet |
| Openstack API support |
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Coming soon |
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| Sunlight Tested System limits |
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[Note that these are not hard system limits but indicate what is validated and supported by Sunlight] |
| Maximum supported number of VMs per NexVisor host (PV and HVM) |
40 |
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| Maximum supported number of VMs per resource group |
120 |
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| Maximum supported number of tolerated failures (blade/chassis/rack) per Resource Group FT policy |
1 |
Currently we have validated the failure tolerance for the blade level |
| Maximum supported number of NexVisor hosts in a logical cluster |
8 |
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| Maximum supported physical RAM per NexVisor |
512GB |
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| Maximum supported virtual RAM per VM |
180GB |
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| Maximum supported physical cores per NexVisor |
96 |
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| Maximum supported virtual cores per VM |
32 |
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| Maximum supported vDisk size |
2TB |
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| Maximum supported physical disk size |
2TB |
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| Maximum supported NVMe drives per NexVisor |
8 |
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| Maximum supported SATA drives per NexVisor |
8 |
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| Maximum number of vDisks per VM |
3 |
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| Maximum number of vNICs per VM |
2 |
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| Maximum number of physical NICs per NexVisor |
4 |
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| Maximum number of physical NICs assigned to an encapsulated network |
4 |
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| Maximum number of VMs that can be deployed in a batch at the same time |
8 |
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