On Oct 31, 2017, at 07:35, Andrew Elwell <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 31 Oct. 2017 07:20, "Dilger, Andreas" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Having a larger MDT isn't bad if you plan future expansion.  That said, you 
>> would get better performance over FDR if you used SSDs for the MDT rather 
>> than HDDs (if you aren't already planning this), and for a single OSS you 
>> probably don't need the extra MDT capacity.  With both ldiskfs+LVM and ZFS 
>> you can also expand the MDT size in the future if you need more capacity.
> 
> Can someone with wiki editing rights summarise the advantages of different 
> hardware combinations? For example I remember Daniel @ NCI had some nice 
> comments about which components (MDS v OSS) benefited from faster cores over 
> thread count and where more RAM was important.
> 
> I feel this would be useful for people building small test systems and 
> comparing vendor responses for large tenders.

Everyone has wiki editing rights, you just need to register...

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Lustre Principal Architect
Intel Corporation







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