Re: [ceph-users] migrating cephfs metadata pool from spinning disk to SSD.

2015-08-04 Thread Shane Gibson
Bob, Those numbers would seem to indicate some other problem One of the biggest culprits of that poor performance is often related to network issues. In the last few months, there have been several reported issues of performance, that have turned out to be network. Not all, but most.

Re: [ceph-users] CEPH RBD with ESXi

2015-07-20 Thread Shane Gibson
On 7/20/15, 11:52 AM, ceph-users on behalf of Campbell, Bill ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.commailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com on behalf of bcampb...@axcess-financial.commailto:bcampb...@axcess-financial.com wrote: We use VMware with Ceph, however we don't use RBD directly (we have an

Re: [ceph-users] Deadly slow Ceph cluster revisited

2015-07-17 Thread Shane Gibson
David - I'm new to Ceph myself, so can't point out any smoking guns - but your problem feels like a network issue. I suggest you check all of your OSD/Mon/Clients network interfaces. Check for errors, check that they are negotiating the same link speed/type with your switches (if you have LLDP

Re: [ceph-users] Dont used fqdns in monmaptool and ceph-mon --mkfs

2015-07-17 Thread Shane Gibson
On 7/16/15, 9:51 PM, ceph-users on behalf of Goncalo Borges ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com on behalf of gonc...@physics.usyd.edu.au wrote: Once I substituted the fqdn by simply the hostname (without the domain) it worked. Goncalo, I ran into the same problems too - and ended up bailing on

Re: [ceph-users] backing Hadoop with Ceph ??

2015-07-16 Thread Shane Gibson
On 7/16/15, 6:55 AM, Gregory Farnum g...@gregs42.com wrote: Yep! The Hadoop workload is a fairly simple one that is unlikely to break anything in CephFS. We run a limited set of Hadoop tests on it every week and provide bindings to set it up; I think the documentation is a bit lacking here but

Re: [ceph-users] backing Hadoop with Ceph ??

2015-07-15 Thread Shane Gibson
/master/radosgw/s3/ [3] https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/AmazonS3 On 7/15/15, 9:50 AM, Somnath Roy somnath@sandisk.commailto:somnath@sandisk.com wrote: Did you try to integrate ceph +rgw+s3 with Hadoop? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Shane Gibson shane_gib

[ceph-users] backing Hadoop with Ceph ??

2015-07-15 Thread Shane Gibson
We are in the (very) early stages of considering testing backing Hadoop via Ceph - as opposed to HDFS. I've seen a few very vague references to doing that, but haven't found any concrete info (architecture, configuration recommendations, gotchas, lessons learned, etc...). I did find the

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph Journal Disk Size

2015-07-02 Thread Shane Gibson
Lionel - thanks for the feedback ... inline below ... On 7/2/15, 9:58 AM, Lionel Bouton lionel+c...@bouton.namemailto:lionel+c...@bouton.name wrote: Ouch. These spinning disks are probably a bottleneck: there are regular advices on this list to use one DC SSD for 4 OSDs. You would probably

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph Journal Disk Size

2015-07-02 Thread Shane Gibson
, Best regards, German 2015-07-01 21:16 GMT-03:00 Shane Gibson shane_gib...@symantec.commailto:shane_gib...@symantec.com: It also depends a lot on the size of your cluster ... I have a test cluster I'm standing up right now with 60 nodes - a total of 600 OSDs each at 4 TB ... If I lose 4 TB

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph Journal Disk Size

2015-07-01 Thread Shane Gibson
It also depends a lot on the size of your cluster ... I have a test cluster I'm standing up right now with 60 nodes - a total of 600 OSDs each at 4 TB ... If I lose 4 TB - that's a very small fraction of the data. My replicas are going to be spread out across a lot of spindles, and

Re: [ceph-users] Combining MON OSD Nodes

2015-06-26 Thread Shane Gibson
For a high perf cluster - absolutely agree ... but I would suggest that running the MONs as VMs has it's on performance challenges, to carefully manage as well. If you are on oversubscribed hypervisors, you may end up with the same exact issues with perf impacting the MONs. For a very small

Re: [ceph-users] Combining MON OSD Nodes

2015-06-25 Thread Shane Gibson
For a small deployment this might be ok - but as mentioned, mon logging might be an issue. Consider the following: * disk resources for mon logging (maybe dedicate a disk to logging, to avoid disk IO contention for OSDs) * CPU resources, some Filesystem types for OSDs can eat a lot of CPU

Re: [ceph-users] Mounting cephfs from cluster ip ok but fails from external ip

2015-06-23 Thread Shane Gibson
On 6/23/15, 5:09 AM, ceph-users on behalf of Gregory Farnum ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com on behalf of g...@gregs42.com wrote: Monitors are bound to a particular IP address. Greg - are you saying the MONs are only able to bind to a single IP address? Despite the fact that most daemons in

Re: [ceph-users] osd.1 marked down after no pg stats for ~900seconds

2015-06-21 Thread Shane Gibson
Cristian, I'm not sure off hand what's up - but can you increase the logging levels, then rerun the test: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/troubleshooting/log-and-debug/ See the Runtime section for injecting the logging arguments after starting - or change the {cluster}.conf (eg

Re: [ceph-users] rbd performance issue - can't find bottleneck

2015-06-19 Thread Shane Gibson
All - I have been following this thread for a bit, and am happy to see how involved, capable, and collaborative that this ceph-users community seems to be. It appears there is a fairly strong amount of domain knowledge around the hardware used by many Ceph deployments, with a lot of thumbs up

[ceph-users] OSD Journal creation ?

2015-06-18 Thread Shane Gibson
All - I am building my first ceph cluster, and doing it the hard way, manually without the aid of ceph-deploy. I have successfully built the mon cluster and am now adding OSDs. My main question: How do I prepare the Journal prior to the prepare/activate stages of the OSD creation? More

[ceph-users] best Linux distro for Ceph

2015-06-17 Thread Shane Gibson
Ok - I know this post has the potential to spread to unsavory corners of discussion about the best linux distro ... blah blah blah ... please, don't let it go there ... ! I'm seeking some input from people that have been running larger Ceph clusters ... on the order of 100s of physical

Re: [ceph-users] help to new user

2015-06-15 Thread Shane Gibson
Vida - installing Ceph as hosted VMs is a great way to get experience hands-on with a Ceph cluster. It is NOT a good way to run Ceph for any real work load.NOTE that it's critical you structure your virtual disks and virtual network(s) to match how you'd like to run your Ceph work loads

Re: [ceph-users] Is Ceph right for me?

2015-06-11 Thread Shane Gibson
Alternatively you could just use GIT (or some other form of versioning system) ... host your code/files/html/whatever in GIT. Make changes to the GIT tree - then you can trigger a git pull from your webservers to local filesystem. This gives you the ability to use branches/versions to