Re: [ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2018-01-10 Thread Wes Dillingham
Not OCP but regarding 12 3.5 drives in 1U with Decent CPU QCT makes the following: https://www.qct.io/product/index/Server/rackmount-server/1U-Rackmount-Server/QuantaGrid-S51G-1UL and have a few other models with some additional SSD included in addition to the 3.5" Both of those compared here: htt

Re: [ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2017-12-22 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 12/22/2017 02:40 PM, Dan van der Ster wrote: Hi Wido, We have used a few racks of Wiwynn OCP servers in a Ceph cluster for a couple of years. The machines are dual Xeon [1] and use some of those 2U 30-disk "Knox" enclosures. Yes, I see. I was looking for a solution without a JBOD and abo

Re: [ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2017-12-22 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 12/22/2017 03:27 PM, Luis Periquito wrote: Hi Wido, what are you trying to optimise? Space? Power? Are you tied to OCP? A lot of things. I'm not tied to OCP, but OCP has a lot of advantages over regular 19" servers and thus I'm investigating Ceph+OCP - Less power loss due to only one

Re: [ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2017-12-22 Thread Luis Periquito
Hi Wido, what are you trying to optimise? Space? Power? Are you tied to OCP? I remember Ciara had some interesting designs like this http://www.ciaratech.com/product.php?id_prod=539&lang=en&id_cat1=1&id_cat2=67 though I don't believe they are OCP. I also had a look and supermicro has a few that

Re: [ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2017-12-22 Thread Dan van der Ster
Hi Wido, We have used a few racks of Wiwynn OCP servers in a Ceph cluster for a couple of years. The machines are dual Xeon [1] and use some of those 2U 30-disk "Knox" enclosures. Other than that, I have nothing particularly interesting to say about these. Our data centre procurement team have al

[ceph-users] Open Compute (OCP) servers for Ceph

2017-12-22 Thread Wido den Hollander
Hi, I'm looking at OCP [0] servers for Ceph and I'm not able to find yet what I'm looking for. First of all, the geek in me loves OCP and the design :-) Now I'm trying to match it with Ceph. Looking at wiwynn [1] they offer a few OCP servers: - 3 nodes in 2U with a single 3.5" disk [2] - 2