On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 21:59:17 -0700 Richard Hesse wrote:
> It's not a requirement to build out homogeneous racks of ceph gear. Most
> larger places don't do that (it creates weird hot spots). If you have 5
> racks of gear, you're better off spreading out servers in those 5 than just
> a pair of ra
It's not a requirement to build out homogeneous racks of ceph gear. Most
larger places don't do that (it creates weird hot spots). If you have 5
racks of gear, you're better off spreading out servers in those 5 than just
a pair of racks that are really built up. In Aaron's case, he can easily do
t
Hello,
Aaron pretty much stated most of what I was going to write, but to
generalize things and make some points more obvious, I shall pipe up as
well.
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:45:58 -0700 Richard Hesse wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why are you taking a scale-up approach to building your
> ceph clus
We have space limitations in our DCs and so have to build as densely as
possibly. These clusters are two racks of 500 osds each, though there is more
hardware en route to start scaling them out. With just two racks, the risk of
losing a ToR and taking down the cluster was enough to justify the s
