Mark,

We'll see if the problems follow me as I install Croit    They gave a very
impressive impromptu presentation shortly after I sent this call for help.

I'll make sure I post some details about our CephFS endeavor as things
progress, it will likely help others as they start their Ceph projects.

-Chip

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:48 AM Mark Nelson <mnel...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Chip,
>
>
> Regarding CephFS performance, it really depends on the io patterns and
> what you are trying to accomplish.  Can you talk a little bit more about
> what you are seeing?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 2/16/21 8:42 AM, Schweiss, Chip wrote:
> > For the past several months I had been building a sizable Ceph cluster
> that
> > will be up to 10PB with between 20 and 40 OSD servers this year.
> >
> > A few weeks ago I was informed that SUSE is shutting down SES and will no
> > longer be selling it.  We haven't licensed our proof of concept cluster
> > that is currently at 14 OSD nodes, but it looks like SUSE is not going to
> > be the answer here.
> >
> > I'm seeking recommendations for consulting help on this project since
> SUSE
> > has let me down.
> >
> > I have Ceph installed and operating, however, I've been struggling with
> > getting the pool configured properly for CephFS and getting very poor
> > performance.   The OSD servers have TLC NVMe for DB, and Optane NVMe for
> > WAL, so I should be seeing decent performance with the current cluster.
> >
> > I'm not opposed to completely switching OS distributions.  Ceph on SUSE
> was
> > our first SUSE installation.   Almost everything else we run is on
> CentOS,
> > but that may change thanks to IBM cannibalizing CentOS.
> >
> > Please reach out to me if you can recommend someone to sell us consulting
> > hours and/or a support contract.
> >
> > -Chip Schweiss
> > chip.schwe...@wustl.edu
> > Washington University School of Medicine
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