Lots of great hardware knowledge in this thread! I'm also making the move to 10Gb.
I'm adding a 3rd host to my deployment and moving to Glusterfs on 3 nodes, from my current NFS share on a separate storage server. Each of the 3 nodes has dual E5-2640 V4s with128Gb ram. I have some hardware choices I would love some advice about: - Should I use Intel X520-DA2 or X710-DA2 nics for the storage network? No significant price difference. The hosts are running oVirt Node 4.2. I hope to use them in bridge mode so that I don't need a 10Gbe switch. I do have a single 10Gbe port left on my router. - the hosts have 12Gbps 520i SAS cards, should I spec 6 or 12 Gbps SSD drives? Here there is a large price difference, also large difference between Enterprise performance, Enterprise mainstream, and Enterprise entry. I'm not sure how to estimate the value of those different options in a Glusterfs deployment. The workload is pretty I/O intensive with fairly small read/write operations (under 128Kb) on windows VMs. Any obvious weak links with this plan? On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 12:27 PM Michael Watters, <watte...@watters.ws> wrote: > We run Dell Poweredge R720s and R730s with 32 GB of RAM and quad Xeon > processors. Storage is provided by Dell MD3800i and Promise arrays > using iSCSI. The network is all 10 gigabit interfaces using 802.3ad > bonds. We actually just upgraded from 1 gigabit NICs since there were > some performance issues with storage causing high IOwait on VMs. I'd > recommend avoiding 1 gigabit if you can. > > > On 3/24/18 4:33 AM, Andy Michielsen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Not sure if this is the place to be asking this but I was wondering > which hardware you all are using and why in order for me to see what I > would be needing. > > > > I would like to set up a HA cluster consisting off 3 hosts to be able to > run 30 vm’s. > > The engine, I can run on an other server. The hosts can be fitted with > the storage and share the space through glusterfs. I would think I will be > needing at least 3 nic’s but would be able to install ovn. (Are 1gb nic’s > sufficient ?) > > > > Any input you guys would like to share would be greatly appriciated. > > > > Thanks, > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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