Two disks could be a significant advantage. You should also experiment with ways to avoid VM induced gaps in time.
Finally, if you really are going to be write heavy, 3 nodes are likely to perform better than 5. On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Brian Tarbox <[email protected]> wrote: > In setting up an Amazon EC2 configuration for a group of zookeeper nodes > I'm wondering about disk configurations. The zk documentation stresses the > advantages of a dedicated disk for the transaction log. Does this imply > that two smaller disks would be more performant than a single larger disk? > I'm anticipating a 5 node write-heavy cluster. > > Thanks. > > -- > http://about.me/BrianTarbox >
