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Hardware and Software Requirements

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The NetApp AI Control Plane solution is not dependent on this specific hardware. The solution is compatible with any NetApp physical storage appliance, software-defined instance, or cloud service, that is supported by Trident. Examples include a NetApp AFF storage system, Azure NetApp Files, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service, a NetApp ONTAP Select software-defined storage instance, or a NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance. Additionally, the solution can be implemented on any Kubernetes cluster as long as the Kubernetes version used is supported by Kubeflow and NetApp Trident. For a list of Kubernetes versions that are supported by Kubeflow, see the see the official Kubeflow documentation. For a list of Kubernetes versions that are supported by Trident, see the Trident documentation. See the following tables for details on the environment that was used to validate the solution.

Infrastructure Component Quantity Details Operating System

Deployment jump host

1

VM

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Kubernetes master nodes

1

VM

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Kubernetes worker nodes

2

VM

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Kubernetes GPU worker nodes

2

NVIDIA DGX-1 (bare-metal)

NVIDIA DGX OS 4.0.5
(based on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS)

Storage

1 HA Pair

NetApp AFF A220

NetApp ONTAP 9.7 P6

Software Component Version

Apache Airflow

2.0.1

Apache Airflow Helm Chart

8.0.8

Docker

19.03.12

Kubeflow

1.2

Kubernetes

1.18.9

NetApp Trident

21.01.2

NVIDIA DeepOps

Trident deployment functionality from master branch as of commit 61898cdfda; All other functionality from version 21.03

Support

NetApp does not offer enterprise support for Apache Airflow, Docker, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, or NVIDIA DeepOps. If you are interested in a fully supported solution with capabilities similar to the NetApp AI Control Plane solution, contact NetApp about fully supported AI/ML solutions that NetApp offers jointly with partners.