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Thank you in advance for any advice. I have checked some other threads but I cant really get a concrete answer. I was looking through the hardware recommendations on this page: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_0:top-sysreqs-ce-r.html and it makes it seem that a CE node requires an HDD.

 

Im envisioning building a three node cluster, each node with the same storage layout, all flash:

Boot device: 1x 250GB SSD

Storage device, hot tier: 2x 2TB SSD

Storage device, cold tier: nothing

 

This would comply with the ‘maximum number of SSD/HDD drives per node is 4’ instruction. I dont want to have any HDDs in the installation. Is the drive layout I presented viable?

 

Cheers!

You need to identify 3 devices for the install, one for hypervisor, one for CVM, and one for Data, they can all be SSD, and if they’re all SSD then they’ll all be used in the hot-tier.

So in the installation, you would select it just like this (ignore the Virtual Disks, it’s my lab cluster)
 

 

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