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Nutanix Objects is distributed systems running on the top of AOS which is also distributed system. And networking plays very important roles in any distributed systems. So let's take a look at it.
By default you get 2x10G network card and 2x1G network adapters with every node. It's highly recommended to have 10G or higher network. Your network speed will be driving factor for the throughput.Its recommended to connect both 10G interfaces to 10G network.
So you have two options here.
Option 1:
- Connect 2x10G network to each AOS node. And one network is used for AOS data traffic and other network can be dedicated to Objects workload.
- First 10G network - create AOS cluster.
- Second 10G network - Create IPAM network using this interface and select this network while deploying Objects cluster.
Option 2:
- Configure NIC teaming i.e LACP on both interfaces. So you see 20G network speed and both AOS and Objects can share the same network bandwidth and will work just fine.
There are other couple of aspects you should consider while configuring your networking for Objects.
If you go with Option 1 above , then you can just attach that network interface to dedicated 10G network i.e specific physical vlan. Or you can further separate your datapane and management network. Objects deployment UI gives you option to specify two different networks for Infrastructure and client access.
Client access network is given to load balancer VMs, which can come from separate vlan and infrastructure VM network which used for all internal communication between Objects Infra VMs can work on separate vlan.
All these networks should be accessible from PE & PC. Please go through Nutanix Objects documentation to understand what all ports needs to be open in network.
If you have 40G network interface and physical network, it will give you high performance. So do consider this aspect as well.
Is there any other considerations , w.r.t Load balancers which Objects deploys. Continued...