I've been eyeing a similar icydock product (https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=309 <https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=309>) for make M.2 drives more serviceable. While M.2 isn't ideal, if you have a 2U/4U box with a ton of available slots in the back, you could use these with some Micron 7300 MAX or like M.2's for WAL/DB. In theory would make identifying failed M.2 easier/quicker, and allow hot-servicing, rather than say an on-motherboard slot, requiring a full server pull to service.
Curious if anyone has experience with it yet. Reed > On Sep 9, 2021, at 12:36 PM, Mark Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think the bigger tier 1 enterprise vendors have really jumped on, but > I've been curious to see if anyone would create a dense hotswap m.2 setup > (possibly combined with traditional 3.5" HDD bays). The only vendor I've > really seen even attempt something like this is icydock: > > > https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=287 > > > 8 NVMe m.2 devices in a single 5.25" bay. They also have another version > that does 6 m.2 in 2x3.5". You could imagine that one of the tier 1 > enterprise vendors could probably do something similar on the back of a > traditional 12-bay 2U 3.5" chassis. Stick in some moderately sized high > write endurance m.2 devices and you're looking at something like 2 OSD DB/WAL > per NVMe. As it is, 6:1 with 2x2.5" seems to be pretty typical and isn't > terrible if you use decent drives. > > Mark > > On 9/9/21 12:04 PM, David Orman wrote: >> Exactly, we minimize the blast radius/data destruction by allocating >> more devices for DB/WAL of smaller size than less of larger size. We >> encountered this same issue on an earlier iteration of our hardware >> design. With rotational drives and NVMEs, we are now aiming for a 6:1 >> ratio based on our CRUSH rules/rotational disk sizing/nvme >> sizing/server sizing/EC setup/etc. >> >> Make sure to use write-friendly NVMEs for DB/WAL and the failures >> should be much fewer and further between. >> >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 9:11 AM Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Den tors 9 sep. 2021 kl 16:09 skrev Michal Strnad <[email protected]>: >>>> When the disk with DB died >>>> it will cause inaccessibility of all depended OSDs (six or eight in our >>>> environment), >>>> How do you do it in your environment? >>> Have two ssds for 8 OSDs, so only half go away when one ssd dies. >>> >>> -- >>> May the most significant bit of your life be positive. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
