.. _Planning Infrastructure:

Planning Infrastructure
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To plan the infrastructure, you will need to decide on the hardware configuration of each server, plan networks, choose a redundancy method and mode, and decide which data will be kept on which storage tier.

Information in this chapter is meant to help you complete all of these tasks.

.. toctree::
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   :caption: In this chapter:
   :maxdepth: 3

   storage-architecture-overview
   compute-architecture-overview
   planning-node-hardware-configurations
   planning-vm-configurations
   planning-network
   understanding-data-redundancy
   understanding-failure-domains
   understanding-storage-tiers
   understanding-cluster-rebuilding