Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-07 Thread Christian Balzer
On Wed, 07 May 2014 11:01:33 +0200 Xabier Elkano wrote: > El 06/05/14 18:40, Christian Balzer escribió: > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, 06 May 2014 17:07:33 +0200 Xabier Elkano wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to > >> receive some suggestion

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-07 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 18:40, Christian Balzer escribió: > Hello, > > On Tue, 06 May 2014 17:07:33 +0200 Xabier Elkano wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to >> receive some suggestion. >> I want to use a replica count of 3 in the pool and the idea is to buy

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-07 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 19:38, Sergey Malinin escribió: > If you plan to scale up in the future you could consider the following config > to start with: > > Pool size=2 > 3 x servers with OS+journal on 1 ssd, 3 journal ssds, 4 x 900 gb data disks. > It will get you 5+ TB capacity and you will be able to incre

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-07 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 19:31, Cedric Lemarchand escribió: > Le 06/05/2014 17:07, Xabier Elkano a écrit : >> the goal is the performance over the capacity. > I am sure you already consider the "full SSD" option, did you ? > Yes, I considered full SSD option, but it is very expensive. Using intel 520 series eac

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Craig Lewis
On 5/6/14 08:07 , Xabier Elkano wrote: Hi, I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to 1- With journal in SSDs 2- With journal in a partition in the spinners. I don't have enough experience to give advice, so I'll tell my story. I'm using RGW, and my only perfor

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Sergey Malinin
If you plan to scale up in the future you could consider the following config to start with: Pool size=2 3 x servers with OS+journal on 1 ssd, 3 journal ssds, 4 x 900 gb data disks. It will get you 5+ TB capacity and you will be able to increase pool size to 3 at some point in time. > The idea

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Cedric Lemarchand
Le 06/05/2014 17:07, Xabier Elkano a écrit : > the goal is the performance over the capacity. I am sure you already consider the "full SSD" option, did you ? -- Cédric ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/06/2014 11:34 AM, Xabier Elkano wrote: OS: 2xSSD intel SC3500 100G Raid 1 Why would you put os on ssds? If buy enough ram so it doesn't swap, about the only i/o on the system drive will be logging. All that'd do is wear out your ssds, not that there's much of that going on. (Our server

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Sergey Malinin
> but the journal SSDs are intel SC3700 and them should be very reliable. Cabling problems, controller failure, intermittent disconnects,... I've seen it all, who knows what's going to happen to yours :) ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.cep

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Tue, 06 May 2014 17:07:33 +0200 Xabier Elkano wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to > receive some suggestion. > I want to use a replica count of 3 in the pool and the idea is to buy 3 > new servers with a 10-drive 2,5" chassis each an

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 18:17, Christian Balzer escribió: > On Tue, 6 May 2014 18:57:04 +0300 Sergey Malinin wrote: > >> My vision of a well built node is when number of journal disks is equal >> to number of data disks. You definitely don't want to lose 3 journals at >> once in case of single drive failure. >

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 17:51, Wido den Hollander escribió: > On 05/06/2014 05:07 PM, Xabier Elkano wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to >> receive some suggestion. >> I want to use a replica count of 3 in the pool and the idea is to buy 3 >> new servers wi

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Christian Balzer
On Tue, 6 May 2014 18:57:04 +0300 Sergey Malinin wrote: > My vision of a well built node is when number of journal disks is equal > to number of data disks. You definitely don't want to lose 3 journals at > once in case of single drive failure. > While that certainly is true not everybody is havi

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 06/05/14 17:57, Sergey Malinin escribió: > My vision of a well built node is when number of journal disks is equal to > number of data disks. You definitely don't want to lose 3 journals at once in > case of single drive failure. thanks for your resonse. This is true, a single SSD failure also

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Sergey Malinin
My vision of a well built node is when number of journal disks is equal to number of data disks. You definitely don't want to lose 3 journals at once in case of single drive failure. > 06 мая 2014 г., в 18:07, Xabier Elkano написал(а): > > > Hi, > > I'm designing a new ceph pool with new har

Re: [ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 05/06/2014 05:07 PM, Xabier Elkano wrote: Hi, I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to receive some suggestion. I want to use a replica count of 3 in the pool and the idea is to buy 3 new servers with a 10-drive 2,5" chassis each and 2 10Gbps nics. I have in mind t

[ceph-users] advice with hardware configuration

2014-05-06 Thread Xabier Elkano
Hi, I'm designing a new ceph pool with new hardware and I would like to receive some suggestion. I want to use a replica count of 3 in the pool and the idea is to buy 3 new servers with a 10-drive 2,5" chassis each and 2 10Gbps nics. I have in mind two configurations: 1- With journal in SSDs O