Hello all.
Sorry for the beginner questions...
I am in the process of setting up a small (3 nodes, 288TB) Ceph cluster
to store some research data. It is expected that this cluster will grow
significantly in the next year, possibly to multiple petabytes and 10s
of nodes. At this time I'm expected a relatively small number of
clients, with only one or two actively writing collected data - albeit
at a high volume per day.
Currently I'm deploying on Debian 9 via ceph-ansible.
Before I put this cluster into production I have a couple questions
based on my experience to date:
Luminous, Mimic, or Nautilus? I need stability for this deployment, so
I am sticking with Debian 9 since Debian 10 is fairly new, and I have
been hesitant to go with Nautilus. Yet Mimic seems to have had a hard
road on Debian but for the efforts at Croit.
* Statements on the Releases page are now making more sense to me, but
I would like to confirm that Nautilus is the right choice at this time?
Bluestore DB size: My nodes currently have 8 x 12TB drives (plus 4
empty bays) and a PCIe NVMe drive. If I understand the suggested
calculation correctly, the DB size for a 12 TB Bluestore OSD would be
480GB. If my NVMe isn't big enough to provide this size, should I skip
provisioning the DBs on the NVMe, or should I give each OSD 1/12th of
what I have available? Also, should I try to shift budget a bit to get
more NVMe as soon as I can, and redo the OSDs when sufficient NVMe is
available?
Thanks.
-Dave
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