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Design Criteria
Designing a multi-site is beyond the scope of this document and for simplicity, only a single site deploy-
ment test bed is setup. Please contact Cisco and Cloudian if you have multi-site requirements.
Should a customer's workload and use case requirements not conform to the assumptions made while
building these standard configurations, Cisco and Cloudian can work together to build custom hardware
sizing to support the customer's workload.

Expansion of the Cluster

Cisco UCS hardware, along with Cloudian HyperStore, offers exceptional flexibility in order to scale-out as your
requirements change:
Cisco UCS 6332 Fabric Interconnects have 32 ports each. Each server is connected to either of the FI's.
Leaving the uplinks and any other clients directly connected to the Fabrics, 24-28 server nodes can be
connected to FI pairs. If more servers are required, you should plan for a multi-domain system.
Cisco UCS offers KVM management both in-band and out-of-band. In case out-of-band management is
planned, you may have to reserve as many free IP's as needed for the servers. Planning while designing
the cluster makes expansion very straightforward.
Cisco UCS provides IP pool management, MAC pool management along with policies that can be defined
once for the cluster. Any future expansion for adding nodes and so on, is just a matter of expanding the
above pools.
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