FWIW, here is what I have for my ceph cluster: 4 x HP DL 180 G6 12Gb RAM P411 with 512MB Battery Backed Cache 10GigE 4 HP MSA 60's with 12 x 1TB 7.2k SAS and SATA drives (bought at different times so there is a mix) 2 HP D2600 with 12 x 3TB 7.2k SAS Drives
I'm currently running 79 qemu/kvm vm's for Indiana University and xsede.org. On May 7, 2013, at 7:50 AM, "Barry O'Rourke" <Barry.O'rou...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to purchase a production cluster of 3 Dell Poweredge R515's which > I intend to run in 3 x replication. I've opted for the following > configuration; > > 2 x 6 core processors > 32Gb RAM > H700 controller (1Gb cache) > 2 x SAS OS disks (in RAID1) > 2 x 1Gb ethernet (bonded for cluster network) > 2 x 1Gb ethernet (bonded for client network) > > and either 4 x 2Tb nearline SAS OSDs or 8 x 1Tb nearline SAS OSDs. > > At the moment I'm undecided on the OSDs, although I'm swaying towards the > second option at the moment as it would give me more flexibility and the > option of using some of the disks as journals. > > I'm intending to use this cluster to host the images for ~100 virtual > machines, which will run on different hardware most likely be managed by > OpenNebula. > > I'd be interested to hear from anyone running a similar configuration with a > similar use case, especially people who have spent some time benchmarking a > similar configuration and still have a copy of the results. > > I'd also welcome any comments or critique on the above specification. > Purchases have to be made via Dell and 10Gb ethernet is out of the question > at the moment. > > Cheers, > > Barry > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
