NetApp HCI User Manual

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The default storage tenant is NetApp HCI. You can change this value. You can also
change the backend name. However, do not change the default storage driver value,
which is solidfire-san.
5. Select Launch.
This installs the Trident workload on the trident namespace.
6. Select Resources > Workloads, and verify that the trident namespace includes the following
components:
7. (Optional) Select Storage for the user cluster to see the storage classes that you can use for your
persistent volumes.
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The three storage classes are solidfire-gold, solidfire-silver, and solidfire-bronze.
You can make one of these storage classes the default by selecting the icon under the
Default column.
Find more information
• Enable Trident support for user clusters
• Rancher documentation about architecture
• Kubernetes terminology for Rancher
• NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server

NetApp HCI Specifications

General

Product Type	Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
Data Services	Data protection, encryption
Connectivity	10 GbE, 25 GbE, 40 GbE, 100 GbE
Hypervisor Support	VMware vSphere
Management Node	Included in the solution
Storage Media	SSD and HDD
Node Types	Compute nodes, storage nodes
Storage Protocols	iSCSI
Data Reduction	Deduplication, compression, thin provisioning
High Availability	Built-in redundancy