Deployment Model Comparison Matrix

This section helps you evaluate and select the most appropriate deployment model for your environment by comparing key features.

Feature	AIO-SX	AIO-DX	Standard	Distributed Cloud
Node Count	1	2 + up to 50 workers	2 controllers + up to 8 storage nodes + 100 worker nodes	Multi-site
Redundancy	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Max Worker Nodes	1	50	100	Varies by site
Storage Type	Rook-Ceph	Rook-Ceph	Rook-Ceph (Controller, Dedicated, or Open Model)	Rook-Ceph (geo-distributed)
Storage Scalability	Low	Moderate to High	Moderate to High	High
HA Controller Services	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ceph Replication	Optional	Yes	Yes	Yes
Target Environment	Small edge sites	Small to medium edge deployments	Medium to large enterprise	Telco core (central sites), global enterprise
Networking Complexity	Low	Moderate	Moderate to High	High
Deployment Cost	Lowest	Low	Moderate to High	High
Extensibility	Limited	Moderate	High to Very High	Very High

Note

From a Rook perspective, there is no difference between AIO-DX+ and STD+workers deployments. Both can use any deployment model, and the Ceph cluster size depends on the number of OSDs available across the nodes. However, an AIO-DX deployment without workers is more limited because combined application and storage workloads on a single node can quickly hit resource constraints (CPU and memory).

Note

Kubernetes automatically reschedules containers from failed worker nodes to healthy ones in all HA configurations.