Let's look at the architecture in detail in the following sections.
Architecture overview
Conceptual design
The following figure illustrates the design at a high level for the customer:
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Conceptual design (for DC)
Logical design
Software-defined storage logically extends the abilities that exist with compute resources to the storage infrastructure. Rather than using CPU or RAM reservations, limits, and shares, with software-defined storage, the administrator defines policies that are assigned to virtual machines and allows the characteristics of the storage to be...