Design Farm State

The design farm icon indicates a new, blank farm. This icon could also describe a farm that was created and saved through the Control Center but has not been submitted for approval and activation. This situation is similar to a paper design of the farm. The farm does not yet exist in the control plane database (CPDB). No hardware, storage, or network resources are deployed at this stage. During this phase, users can configure farm elements. Because no resources are actually allocated, any number of farms can exist in the design phase.