Thanks for the replies. Here is some info on what I am trying to accomplish. My goal here is to find the least expensive way to get into Virtualization and storage without the cost of a SAN and Proprietary software(eg Vmware, Hyper-V). We currently run about 6 servers that host our web based applications (.net) that use hospital data to provide reporting. Our user base is less than 50 concurrent users. Some of these applications have some large queries that produce several thousand rows of data. This data is not really large but because of legacy systems and SQL that has a lot of joins in it not the most efficient but does work currently. We are currently a windows shop. Windows server 2008 R2, 20012 R2 and SQL server 2008 R2. I have been tasked with taking a new start up project and basically trying to incrementally move us into a VM environment without the use of a SAN. It appears that since Ceph will host live databases it would be a good option. I am just trying to understand exactly how it fits together so I can share this information with all involved.
I have a couple more questions. While looking at the Ceph documentation I am trying to determine what the server structure looks like. It appears to me that a minimal server foot print for a Ceph implementation would be 2 servers. Server 1 would contain: OSD's, Monitor Ceph Object Gateway. Server 2 would contain: OSD's 1 monitor 1 Standby Gateway Would this be correct? If I wanted to add to the Ceph Cluster would I just need to add 1 server which would contain OSD's,1 Monitor. Then I would then get the added space that is contained on this new server? I am wanting to host a few databases on CEPH should I consider scaling up the hardware just because of hosting databases? I also assume any added hardware would need to be similar since I cannot control on which server data is stored? Any insight and help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
