[ceph-users] Re: Backups of monitor [EXT]

2021-02-15 Thread Alex Gorbachev
Hi Matthew, I have always seen (and this is what we ourselves practice) that 3 is the optimal number of monitors for all but the most extreme clusters. We have never had an issue with that setup. We run monitors as VMs on either Proxmox or VMWare, and back them up, and replicate as well, so ther

[ceph-users] Re: Backups of monitor [EXT]

2021-02-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 12/02/2021 15:47, Freddy Andersen wrote: I would say everyone recommends at least 3 monitors and since they need to be 1,3,5 or 7 I always read that as 5 is the best number (if you have 5 servers in your cluster). We have 3 on all our clusters, and at the risk of tempting fate, haven't had a