Hardware-Configuration and Deployment Options

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Overview

The Iguazio AI Platform ("the platform") provides enterprises with the flexibility to run applications on-premises ("on-prem") or in an edge or hybrid cloud architecture. The platform was built from the ground up to maximize CPU utilization and leverage the benefits of non-volatile memory, 100 GbE remote direct memory access (RDMA), flash memory, and dense storage. This design enables the platform to achieve extreme performance while maintaining data consistency, at the lowest cost.

Iguazio Playground

A single data-node and single application-node cluster implementation. This configuration is designed mainly for evaluation trials and doesn't include high availability (HA) or performance testing.

Note
You can deploy a Proof of Concept (POC) in the Iguazio playground configuration. Be aware that the POC cannot be used as development environment or for a production environment.

On-Prem Operational Cluster

A scalable cluster implementation that is composed of multiple data and application nodes. This configuration was designed to achieve superior performance that enables real-time execution of analytics, machine-learning (ML), and artificial-intelligence (AI) applications in a production pipeline.
The data nodes are deployed on virtual machines (VMs), and the application nodes can optionally be deployed either on VMs or on physical machines (bare-metal). The requirement for HA support is three data nodes and a minimum of three application nodes. See On-Prem Deployment.

Cloud Operational Cluster

A scalable cluster implementation that is composed of multiple data and application nodes. This configuration was designed to achieve superior performance that enables real-time execution of analytics, machine-learning (ML), and artificial-intelligence (AI) applications in a production pipeline.
Deploy on a cloud — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud — either as part of your virtual private cloud (VPC) or virtual network (VNet), or as software as a service (SaaS) in Iguazio's cloud account. The requirement for HA support is three data nodes and a minimum of two application nodes. See AWS Cloud Deployment, Azure Cloud Deployment, and Google Cloud Deployment.

Notes

  • All capacity calculations in the hardware specifications are performed using the base-10 (decimal) number system. For example, 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes.

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