You guys are great. Thank you very much for the assistance!
Regards, Christopher Coulson ------------------------------------------------------- Systems Administrator CPI Group, Inc. 3719 Corporex Park Drive, Suite #50 Tampa, FL 33619 Phone: 813.254.6112 (ext. 635) Fax: 813.514.0637 Email: chr...@thecpigroup.com ------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Gregory Farnum <g...@inktank.com> wrote: > [ Please keep discussions on the list — thanks! :) ] > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Chris Coulson <chr...@thecpigroup.com> > wrote: > > First, thank you for your reply. I guess I wasn't specific enough-- my > > question really should have been: when planning to use Ceph, should > there be > > any specific hardware considerations for a consolidated deployment on a > > single node? We're interested in taking advantage of both the > object-based > > and block storage offered by Ceph, and I'm not sure if we could simply > pick > > up a basic DAS/NAS storage server, install Ceph, and be good to go, or if > > we're missing something. > > Ah, yeah. Just pick a server that can hold a bunch of drives. We've > seen that some of them have issues with eg oversubscribed SAS/SATA > expanders so you'll want to check their basic disk capability, and you > want enough compute power to handle each drive (we recommend 1GHz of > CPU and 1GB of RAM per OSD/disk), but within those constraints you can > go wild. > Like John said, you probably want more than one server for a > production deployment (just in terms of reliability), but in terms of > the software you can configure everything to work that way. > -Greg > Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Christopher Coulson > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Systems Administrator > > CPI Group, Inc. > > 3719 Corporex Park Drive, Suite #50 > > Tampa, FL 33619 > > Phone: 813.254.6112 (ext. 635) > > Fax: 813.514.0637 > > Email: chr...@thecpigroup.com > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Gregory Farnum <g...@inktank.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Chris Coulson <chr...@thecpigroup.com > > > >> wrote: > >> > Hopefully I'm performing the correct task to ask a quick, > >> > facepalm-inducing > >> > question: > >> > > >> > > >> > After attending the Openstack Summit in Portland, my company is > planning > >> > to > >> > implement our own private cloud and are beginning to develop ideas > >> > regarding > >> > its architecture. Skipping extraneous information: I'm curious to know > >> > if > >> > it's possible to deploy Ceph (we like the idea of combining block and > >> > object-based storage instead of using 'the other guys' separately) on > a > >> > SINGLE storage server, and if so-- how would you recommend it be done? > >> > DAS? > >> > NAS? Obviously this is not ideal for failover or redundancy, but for > our > >> > initial configuration, we will likely be going this route. > >> > >> I'm not quite sure what you're asking about here. It's perfectly > >> possible to deploy Ceph on a single node; just run an OSD daemon per > >> drive, and a monitor daemon on a drive. You'd have to connect to it > >> through the interfaces you're interested in. > >> -Greg > >> Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com > > > > >
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