>Please clarify what are the disk groups that you are referring to? 
Either Raid5/6 or Raid10 with a HW controller(s).


>Regarding your statement  "In JBOD mode, Red Hat support only 'replica 3' 
>>volumes." does this also mean "replica 3" variants ex. 
>"distributed-replicate" 
Nope, As far as I know - only when you have 3 copies of the data ('replica 3' 
only).

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 7:34 AM C Williams <cwilliams3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Strahil !
> 
> More questions may follow. 
> 
> Thanks Again For Your Help !
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:29 AM Strahil Nikolov <hunter86...@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>> Imagine you got a host with 60 Spinning Disks -> I would recommend you to 
>> split it to 10/12 disk groups and these groups will represent several bricks 
>> (6/5).
>> 
>> Keep in mind that when you start using many (some articles state hundreds , 
>> but no exact number was given) bricks , you should consider brick 
>> multiplexing (cluster.brick-multiplex).
>> 
>> So, you can use as many bricks you want , but each brick requires cpu time 
>> (separate thread) , tcp port number and memory.
>> 
>> In my setup I use multiple bricks in order to spread the load via LACP over 
>> several small (1GBE) NICs.
>> 
>> 
>> The only "limitation" is to have your data on separate hosts , so when you 
>> create the volume it is extremely advisable that you follow this model:
>> 
>> hostA:/path/to/brick
>> hostB:/path/to/brick
>> hostC:/path/to/brick
>> hostA:/path/to/brick2
>> hostB:/path/to/brick2
>> hostC:/path/to/brick2
>> 
>> In JBOD mode, Red Hat support only 'replica 3' volumes - just to keep that 
>> in mind.
>> 
>> From my perspective , JBOD is suitable for NVMEs/SSDs while spinning disks 
>> should be in a raid of some type (maybe RAID10 for perf).
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Strahil Nikolov
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> В сряда, 14 октомври 2020 г., 06:34:17 Гринуич+3, C Williams 
>> <cwilliams3...@gmail.com> написа: 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am getting some questions from others on my team.
>> 
>> I have some hosts that could provide up to 6 JBOD disks for oVirt data (not 
>> arbiter) bricks 
>> 
>> Would this be workable / advisable ?  I'm under the impression there should 
>> not be more than 1 data brick per HCI host .
>> 
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>> 
>> Thank You For Your Help !
>> 
>> 
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