Thanks for the advice! On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 at 19:23, Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would recommend *not* to use too many OSTs as this causes fragmentation > of the free space, and excess overhead in managing the connections. Today, > single OSTs can be up to 500TiB in size (or larger, though not necessarily > optimal for performance). Depending on your cluster size and total > capacity, it is typical for large systems to have a couple hundred OSTs, > 2-4 per OSS balancing the storage and network bandwidth. > > On Jan 12, 2024, at 07:37, Backer via lustre-discuss < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > What is the recommendation on the total number of OSTs? > > In order to maximize throughput, go for more number of OSS with small > OSTs. This means that it will end up with 1000s of OSTs. Any suggestions or > recommendations? > > Thank you, > > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Lustre Principal Architect > Whamcloud > > > > > > > >
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