[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2024-01-03 Thread Anthony D'Atri
>> You don’t strictly need an admin node as such. Only worry about clock rate >> if you’re doing CephFS. > So an admin node is not required? It isn’t. An admin node basically is any system with the admin keys installed. With production clusters there can be some advantages to having one,

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2024-01-03 Thread Marcus
Hi, thanks for your answers! On mån, jan 1 2024 at 17:00:59 -0500, Anthony D'Atri wrote: Hi and thanks for your answers! So my understanding from this, make sure that the "admin" node have a fast CPU You don’t strictly need an admin node as such. Only worry about clock rate if

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2024-01-01 Thread Anthony D'Atri
> Hi and thanks for your answers! > > So my understanding from this, make sure that the "admin" node > have a fast CPU You don’t strictly need an admin node as such. Only worry about clock rate if you’re doing CephFS. >max = 3 and min = 2. For your pools, size=3, min_size=2. These are

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2024-01-01 Thread Marcus
Hi and thanks for your answers! So my understanding from this, make sure that the "admin" node have a fast CPU and the minimum data nodes for production is three and max = 3 and min = 2. You can expand this cluster by just adding one data node, there is no need to expand with another 3 nodes,

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2023-12-22 Thread Anthony D'Atri
>> >> You can do that for a PoC, but that's a bad idea for any production >> workload. You'd want at least three nodes with OSDs to use the default RF=3 >> replication. You can do RF=2, but at the peril of your mortal data. > > I'm not sure I agree - I think size=2, min_size=2 is no worse

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2023-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
Disclaimer: I'm fairly new to Ceph, but I've read a bunch of threads on the min_size=1 issue as that was perplexing me when I started, as one replica is generally considered fine in many other applications. However, there really are some unique concerns to Ceph beyond just the number of disks you

[ceph-users] Re: Ceph newbee questions

2023-12-22 Thread Anthony D'Atri
> I have manually configured a ceph cluster with ceph fs on debian bookworm. Bookworm support is very, very recent I think. > What is the difference from installing with cephadm compared to manuall > install, > any benefits that you miss with manual install? A manual install is dramatically