In particular, Ceph needs a *lot* of spindles / CPU / network interfaces
to run with reasonable performance. I tried just a 3-system 6-spindle
Ceph implementation, and was getting streaming write throughput of 20
megabytes per second. Which, uhm, isn't good, in case you're wondering.
As in, ext
As long as your hypervisor supports the hyper-converged storage system you
want to use, you are good to go. Of course, it depends on how you are going
to introduce the storage system to the hypervisor (ACS needs to know how to
handle the blocks/volumes).
Hyper-converged systems are good because
