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Hi,

I read in the ceph documentation that one of the main performance snags in ceph 
was running the OSDs and journal files on the same disks and you should 
consider at a minimum running the journals on SSDs.

Given I am looking to design a 150 TB cluster, I'm considering the following 
configuration for the storage nodes

No of replicas: 3

Each node

*         18 x 1 TB for storage (1 OSD per node, journals for each OSD are 
stored to volume on SSD)

*         2  x 512 GB SSD drives configured as RAID 1  to store the journal 
files (assuming journal files are not replicated, correct me if Im wrong)

*         2 x 300 GB drives for OS/software (RAID 1)

*         48 GB RAM

*         2 x 10 Gb for public and storage network

*         1 x 1 Gb for management network

*         Dual E2660 CPU


No of nodes required for 150 TB = 150*3/(18*1) = 25

Unfortunately I don't have any metrics on the throughput into the cluster so I 
can't tell whether 512 GB for journal files will be sufficient so it's a best 
guess and may be overkill. Also, any concerns regarding number of OSDs running 
on each node, ive seen some articles on the web saying the sweet spot is around 
8 OSDs per node?

Thanks

Ian

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