Planning Eon Mode communal storage

If you choose to install your database using Eon Mode, you must plan for your use of communal storage to store your database's data. Communal storage is based on an object store, such as AWS S3 or Pure Storage FlashBlade servers.

Whatever object storage platform you use, you must ensure that it is durable (protected against data loss). The data in your Eon Mode database is only as safe as the object store that contains it. Most cloud provider's object stores come with a guaranteed redundancy to prevent data loss. When you install an Eon Mode database on-premises, you may have to take additional steps to prevent data loss.

Planning communal storage capacity for on-premises databases

Most cloud providers do not limit the amount of data you can store in their object stores. The only real limit is your budget; storing more data costs more money.

When you deploy an Eon Mode database on-premises, your storage is limited to the size of your object store. Unlike the cloud, you must plan ahead for the amount of storage you will need. For example, if you have a Pure Admin FlashBlade installation with three 8TB blades, then in theory, your database can grow up to 24TB. In practice, you need to account other uses of your object store, as well as factors such as data compression, and space consumed by unreaped ROS containers (storage containers no longer used by Vertica but not yet deleted by the object store).

The following calculator helps you determine the size for your communal storage needs, based on your estimated data size and additional uses of your communal storage. The values with white backgrounds in the Value column are editable. Change them to reflect your environment.