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Chris Normand posted 08/06/26 10:38 AM

I will caveat this with I don't know anything about the internal configurations of a DPOD server vs. I'm a partner who has a customer with a question that they came to me with.  They have a DPOD cell environment with 4 servers but even with 9 x 6.4TB drives per server, they can only store 30 days of logs/transactions.  Their requirement is 180 days.

Their data center has multiple Pure storage arrays connected via 32G Fibre Channel.  Can we install an HBA into each server and present storage from the Pure to them?  The storage would just show up as another disk to the OS for the server to use, but can the servers be configured to write the logs/transactions to this drive that would have the capacity to store 180 days of data?

I searched and don't see anything other than a reference to AWS which to me, is using external storage.  But I wanted to see if anyone has experience doing the above with Pure or another external storage array.  Thank you in advance


From the DPOD documentation:

  • On AWS, DPOD was providing the expected performance with an EBS gp3 volume with 16,000 IOPS and 1,000 MB/s throughput.
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Shachar Greenberg posted 08/10/26 04:58 PM

The short answer is yes, DPOD can work with external storage (AWS or other).
Based on your question, it sounds like your customers are using physical servers (Cell Members). If so, there are a few additional hardware considerations to keep in mind, such as the server model, socket count, and NUMA node configuration.
Also, it is possible that this is simply a retention configuration issue.

I believe the best way forward is to open a support case. Please make sure to attach a must-gather from all cell servers (both manager and members).

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