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mrvmware25
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VMware Employee

Collapsed Compute and Edge Cluster design OR Collapsed Management and Edge Cluster Design.

Dear Team,

 

Could someone please explain the use cases of collapsed compute and edge cluster design, as well as collapsed management and edge cluster design? This will be useful in making design decisions.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

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Brisk
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It all depends, right? 😊

We run a collapsed cluster for everything, our edges and our management run in the same cluster as our workloads. This has been going fine for years, but we're starting to get to a point where we want to take our management to a separate cluster.

The main driver for this decision has been cost and reduced complexity. We use a stretched cluster and only run 1 edge node in every DC. No concerns whatsoever from a performance point of view, as we always keep our cluster below 50% resource utilization.

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