Hello DoJo!!
We have in our organization recently deployed a DMS with a 3 DMAs nodes, 3 nodes Cassandra cluster and 3 nodes OpenSearch cluster over our corporate VMWare virtualization platform.
We would like to install locally a DMA Community Edition with Cassandra and OpenSearch, for learning purposes. I have several questions about this. By the way, DaaS and STaaS are not a possible option.
Should this DMA be included in our current DMS or should we create a dedicated DMS? Our initial idea was to create a new dedicated DMS for this DMA Community Edition.
If we create a new DMS. Is it possible use our already deployed production Cassandra and OpenSearch cluster for it? Even if it's possible, is it a good idea?
If that's not possible, what would be the most suitable on-premise/self-managed architecture for a DM Community Edition with Cassandra and OpenSearch?
Best regards,
Fernando Ejarque
Hi Fernando,
Let's first evaluate which license type would be the best fit in your situation.
Please note that a community edition license has some limitations: only for a standalone system, only community support is possible, and there is a monthly service limit to take into account.
Have you also considered a Staging license or a time-limited (demo) license? Here we don't have the aforementioned limitations, but only that such a license cannot be integrated into a regular DMS.