CSI Driver on DELL EMC PowerFlex September 2021 H18899 White Paper ## Abstract This white paper describes the deployment of a SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Cluster on the Dell EMC PowerFlex family and the the integration of PowerFlex CSI driver 1.4 for persistent volume, for customers requiring an on-premises container platform solution. This white paper also explains how to protect the above Kubernetes Kubernetes workloads with Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager. Dell Technologies Solutions PowerFlex Engineering Validated The information in this publication is provided as is. Dell Inc. makes no representations

of Virtual Machines 329 Sizing the Greenplum Virtual Machine 330 Putting It All Together 330 Dell EMC VxRail Reference Architecture 331 Next Steps 331 Greenplum Storage Sizer for Two-Tiered Architectures this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. - For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: is compatible with these storage systems and versions: |Storage System|Version| |---|---| |Dell EMC PowerFlex|Greater then or equal to 3.6.0| |NetApp ONTAP|version 9| The following table displays the

of Virtual Machines 269 Sizing the Greenplum Virtual Machine 270 Putting It All Together 270 Dell EMC VxRail Reference Architecture 271 Next Steps 271 Prerequisites 271 Greenplum Cluster 271 VMware this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. - For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: system software requirements for three primary deployment scenarios: - Tanzu Greenplum deployed to Dell EMC VxRail - Tanzu Greenplum deployed to on-premise hardware - Tanzu Greenplum deployed to cloud services

Number of Virtual Machines 300 Sizing the Greenplum Virtual Machine 301 Putting It All Together 302 Dell EMC VxRail Reference Architecture 302 Next Steps 303 Prerequisites 303 Greenplum Cluster 303 VMware this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: system software requirements for three primary deployment scenarios: Tanzu Greenplum deployed to Dell EMC VxRail Tanzu Greenplum deployed to on-premise hardware Tanzu Greenplum deployed to cloud services

Number of Virtual Machines 311 Sizing the Greenplum Virtual Machine 312 Putting It All Together 312 Dell EMC VxRail Reference Architecture 313 Next Steps 313 Prerequisites 313 Greenplum Cluster 314 VMware instructions. VMware Greenplum 6 Documentation VMware, Inc 164 For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: Greenplum on vSphere is compatible with these storage systems and versions: Storage System Version Dell EMC PowerFlex Greater then or equal to 3.6.0 NetApp ONTAP version 9 The following table displays the compatible

Number of Virtual Machines 296 Sizing the Greenplum Virtual Machine 297 Putting It All Together 297 Dell EMC VxRail Reference Architecture 298 Next Steps 298 Prerequisites 299 Greenplum Cluster 299 VMware this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: system software requirements for three primary deployment scenarios: Tanzu Greenplum deployed to Dell EMC VxRail Tanzu Greenplum deployed to on-premise hardware Tanzu Greenplum deployed to cloud services

this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. - For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: protocols.| ## V Mware Greenplum on DCA Systems You must run VMware Greenplum version 6.9 or later on Dell EMC DCA systems, with software version 4.2.0.0 and later. ## Storage The only file system supported is compatible with these storage systems and versions: |Storage System|Version| |---|---| |Dell EMC PowerFlex|Greater then or equal to 3.6.0| |NetApp ONTAP|version 9| The following table displays the

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18.2 149 Resolved Issues 149 Cluster Management 149 Query Planner 150 Server 150 Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail 150 Release 6.18.1 150 Resolved Issues 150 Server 150 Query Optimizer 151 Release 6 protocols.| ## Tanzu Greenplum on DCA Systems You must run Tanzu Greenplum version 6.9 or later on Dell EMC DCA systems, with software version 4.2.0.0 and later. ## Storage The only file system supported an AO/CO table failed when using spgist index caused by an empty transaction ID. ## Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail 699 : The Terraform script now ensures that thick provisioning is enabled and disks are

protocols.| ## Tanzu Greenplum on DCA Systems You must run Tanzu Greenplum version 6.9 or later on Dell EMC DCA systems, with software version 4.2.0.0 and later. ## Storage The only file system supported this release and for installation and upgrade instructions. - For customers deploying Greenplum on Dell EMC VxRail, the following enhancements have been introduced to the guidelines, and reference templates: original data, which may be stored in compressed binary format. Offline backup solutions such as Dell EMC Data Domain can reduce the required disk space on each host. If you want to migrate your data on