Lenovo Big Data Validated Design for Cloudera Enterprise and VMware with Bare-Metal and Virtualized ThinkSystem ServersReference Architecture

This document describes the reference architecture for Cloudera Enterprise on bare-metal infrastructure as well as infrastructure virtualized with VMware. It provides a predefined and optimized hardware infrastructure for the Cloudera Enterprise, a distribution of Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark with enterprise-ready capabilities from Cloudera.

This reference architecture provides the planning, design considerations, and best practices for implementing Cloudera Enterprise with Lenovo products including ThinkSystem servers. Jointly tested and validated by Lenovo, Cloudera and VMware, the predefined configuration provides a baseline configuration for a big data solution, which can be modified, based on the specific customer requirements such as improved performance, optimized performance/cost and increased reliability.

The intended audience of this document is IT professionals, technical architects, sales engineers, and consultants to assist in planning, designing, and implementing the big data solution with Lenovo hardware.

Introduction
Business problem and business value
Requirements
Architectural overview
Component model
Operational model
Deployment considerations
Appendix: Bill of Materials
Acknowledgements
Resources

Changes in the December 15 update (version 1.2):

• Updates to networking sections

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

• VMware vSphere
• Cloudera
• 2-Socket Rack Servers
• VMware Alliance