Beware, a single 10G NIC is easily saturated by a single NVMe device

On 05/07/2017 11:54, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> 
>> Op 5 juli 2017 om 11:41 schreef "Van Leeuwen, Robert" 
>> <rovanleeu...@ebay.com>:
>>
>>
>> Hi Max,
>>
>> You might also want to look at the PCIE lanes.
>> I am not an expert on the matter but my guess would be the 8 NVME drives + 
>> 2x100Gbit would be too much for
>> the current Xeon generation (40 PCIE lanes) to fully utilize.
>>
> 
> Fair enough, but you might want to think about if you really, really need 
> 100Gbit. Those cards are expensive, same goes for the Gbics and switches.
> 
> Storage is usually latency bound and not so much bandwidth. Imho a lot of 
> people focus on raw TBs and bandwidth, but in the end IOps and latency are 
> what usually matters.
> 
> I'd probably stick with 2x10Gbit for now and use the money I saved on more 
> memory and faster CPUs.
> 
> Wido
> 
>> I think the upcoming AMD/Intel offerings will improve that quite a bit so 
>> you may want to wait for that.
>> As mentioned earlier. Single Core cpu speed matters for latency so you 
>> probably want to up that.
>>
>> You can also look at the DIMM configuration.
>> TBH I am not sure how much it impacts Ceph performance but having just 2 
>> DIMMS slots populated will not give you max memory bandwidth.
>> Having some extra memory for read-cache probably won’t hurt either (unless 
>> you know your workload won’t include any cacheable reads)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Robert van Leeuwen
>>
>> From: ceph-users <ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com> on behalf of 
>> Massimiliano Cuttini <m...@phoenixweb.it>
>> Organization: PhoenixWeb Srl
>> Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 10:54 AM
>> To: "ceph-users@lists.ceph.com" <ceph-users@lists.ceph.com>
>> Subject: [ceph-users] New cluster - configuration tips and reccomendation - 
>> NVMe
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> luminous is coming and sooner we should be allowed to avoid double writing.
>> This means use 100% of the speed of SSD and NVMe.
>> Cluster made all of SSD and NVMe will not be penalized and start to make 
>> sense.
>>
>> Looking forward I'm building the next pool of storage which we'll setup on 
>> next term.
>> We are taking in consideration a pool of 4 with the following single node 
>> configuration:
>>
>>   *   2x E5-2603 v4 - 6 cores - 1.70GHz
>>   *   2x 32Gb of RAM
>>   *   2x NVMe M2 for OS
>>   *   6x NVMe U2 for OSD
>>   *   2x 100Gib ethernet cards
>>
>> We have yet not sure about which Intel and how much RAM we should put on it 
>> to avoid CPU bottleneck.
>> Can you help me to choose the right couple of CPU?
>> Did you see any issue on the configuration proposed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Max
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