Re: [ceph-users] PG calculator improvement

2017-04-14 Thread Frédéric Nass
Hi Michael, David, Actually, we did start with a lot of work (and then a lot of work :-)) and with the help of a RHCS consultant (an Inktank pioneer :-)) during a 5 days on-site Jumpstart. With his precious help, we deployed our production cluster, set the right options in ceph.conf, the rig

Re: [ceph-users] PG calculator improvement

2017-04-13 Thread David Turner
I think what fits the need of Frédéric while not impacting the complexity of the tool for new users would be a list of known "gotchas" in PG counts. Like not having a Base2 count of PGs will cause each PG to be variable sized (for each PG past the last Base2, you have 2 PGs that are half the size o

Re: [ceph-users] PG calculator improvement

2017-04-13 Thread Michael Kidd
Hello Frédéric, Thank you very much for the input. I would like to ask for some feedback from you, as well as the ceph-users list at large. The PGCalc tool was created to help steer new Ceph users in the right direction, but it's certainly difficult to account for every possible scenario. I'm

[ceph-users] PG calculator improvement

2017-04-12 Thread Frédéric Nass
Hi, I wanted to share a bad experience we had due to how the PG calculator works. When we set our production cluster months ago, we had to decide on the number of PGs to give to each pool in the cluster. As you know, the PG calc would recommended to give a lot of PGs to heavy pools in size,