Some comments inline.
A lot of it depends on your workload, but I'd say you almost certainly need 
higher-grade SSDs. You can save money on memory.

What will be the role of this cluster? VM disks? Object storage? Streaming?...

Jan

> On 27 Aug 2015, at 17:56, German Anders <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    I'm planning to deploy a new Ceph cluster with IB FDR 56Gb/s and I've the 
> following HW:
> 
> 3x MON Servers:
>    2x Intel Xeon E5-2600@v3 8C
>    256GB RAM

I don't think you need that much memory, 64GB should be plenty (if that's the 
only role for the servers).

>    1xIB FRD ADPT-DP (two ports for PUB network)
>    1xGB ADPT-DP
>    
>    Disk Layout:
>    
>    SOFT-RAID:
>    SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SSDSC2BB12 (OS-RAID1)
>    SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SSDSC2BB12 (OS-RAID1)

I 100% recommend going with SSDs for the /var/lib/ceph/mon storage, fast ones 
(but they can be fairly small). Should be the same grade as journal drives IMO.
NOT S3500!
I can recommend S3610 (just got some :)), Samsung 845 DC PRO. At least 1 DWPD 
rating, better go with 3 DWPD.

> 
> 8x OSD Servers:
>    2x Intel Xeon E5-2600@v3 10C

Go for the fastest you can afford if you need the latency - even at the expense 
of cores.
Go for cores if you want bigger throughput.

>    256GB RAM

Again - I think too much if that's the only role for those nodes, 64GB should 
be plenty.


>    1xIB FRD ADPT-DP (one port for PUB and one for CLUS network)
>    1xGB ADPT-DP
> 
>    Disk Layout:
> 
>    SOFT-RAID:
>    SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SSDSC2BB12 (OS-RAID1)
>    SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SSDSC2BB12 (OS-RAID1)
> 
>    JBOD:
>    SCSI9 (0,0,0) (sdd) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SC3500 SSDSC2BB12 (Journal)
>    SCSI9 (0,1,0) (sde) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SC3500 SSDSC2BB12 (Journal)
>    SCSI9 (0,2,0) (sdf) - 120.0 GB ATA INTEL SC3500 SSDSC2BB12 (Journal)

No no no. Those SSDs will die a horrible death, too little endurance.
Better go with 2x 3700 in RAID1 and partition them for journals. Or just don't 
use journaling drives and buy better SSDs for storage.

>    SCSI9 (0,3,0) (sdg) - 800.2 GB ATA INTEL SC3510 SSDSC2BB80 (Pool-SSD) 
>    SCSI9 (0,4,0) (sdh) - 800.2 GB ATA INTEL SC3510 SSDSC2BB80 (Pool-SSD)
>    SCSI9 (0,5,0) (sdi) - 800.2 GB ATA INTEL SC3510 SSDSC2BB80 (Pool-SSD)
>    SCSI9 (0,6,0) (sdj) - 800.2 GB ATA INTEL SC3510 SSDSC2BB80 (Pool-SSD)

Too little endurance.

> 
>    SCSI9 (0,7,0) (sdk) - 3.0 TB SEAGATE ST3000NM0023 (Pool-SATA) 
>    SCSI9 (0,8,0) (sdl) - 3.0 TB SEAGATE ST3000NM0023 (Pool-SATA)
>    SCSI9 (0,9,0) (sdm) - 3.0 TB SEAGATE ST3000NM0023 (Pool-SATA)
>    SCSI9 (0,10,0) (sdn) - 3.0 TB SEAGATE ST3000NM0023 (Pool-SATA)
>    SCSI9 (0,11,0) (sdo) - 3.0 TB SEAGATE ST3000NM0023 (Pool-SATA)
> 
> 
> I would like to have an expert opinion on what would be the best 
> deploy/config disk pools and crush map? any other advice?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> German
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