Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-11 Thread Zoltan Arnold Nagy
That PDF specifically calls for P3700 NVMe SSDs, not the consumer 750. You need high endurance drives usually. I’m using 1x400GB Intel P3700 per 9 OSDs (so 4xP3700 per 36 disk chassis). > On 11 Feb 2016, at 17:56, Michael wrote: > > Alex Leake writes: > >> >> Hello Michael​, >> >> I mainta

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-11 Thread Michael
Alex Leake writes: > > Hello Michael​, > > I maintain a small Ceph cluster at the University of Bath, our cluster consists of: > > Monitors: > 3 x Dell PowerEdge R630 > > - 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 > - 64GB RAM > - 4x 300GB SAS (RAID 10) > > OSD Nodes: > 6 x Dell PowerEdge R730

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-11 Thread Christian Balzer
_ > From: Michael Barkdoll > Sent: 11 February 2016 15:05 > To: Alex Leake > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations > > Thanks Alex, > > Dell provided me with their current recommended c

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-11 Thread Alex Leake
er just of disk then flush cold objects from the SSDs. http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/cache-tiering/ Kind Regards, Alex. From: Michael Barkdoll Sent: 11 February 2016 15:05 To: Alex Leake Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-u

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-11 Thread Alex Leake
Hello Michael​, I maintain a small Ceph cluster at the University of Bath, our cluster consists of: Monitors: 3 x Dell PowerEdge R630 - 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v3 - 64GB RAM - 4x 300GB SAS (RAID 10) OSD Nodes: 6 x Dell PowerEdge R730XD & MD1400 Shelves - 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-10 Thread Yann Dupont
Le 10/02/16 12:17, Alexandre DERUMIER a écrit : Dell finally sells a controller with true JBOD mode? YES ! and better, you can mix hardware raid and JBOD :) (i'm talking about H330 , lsi 3008 chipset) Same for H730P, also LSI chipset (don't know wich one) ... probably not much differences be

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-10 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
10 Février 2016 11:30:21 Objet: Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations Dell finally sells a controller with true JBOD mode? The last I checked they only had "JBOD-via-RAID0" as a recommended solution (doh, numerous problems) and true JBOD was only offered for special use ca

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-10 Thread Jan Schermer
Dell finally sells a controller with true JBOD mode? The last I checked they only had "JBOD-via-RAID0" as a recommended solution (doh, numerous problems) and true JBOD was only offered for special use cases like hadoop storage. One can obviously reflash the controller to another mode, but that's

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-10 Thread Yann Dupont
Le 10/02/16 03:55, Matt Taylor a écrit : We are using Dell R730XD's with 2 x Internal SAS in Raid 1 for OS. 24 x 400GB SSD. PERC H730P Mini is being used with non-RAID passthrough for the SSD's. CPU and RAM specs aren't really needed to be known as you can do whatever you want, however I wo

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-09 Thread Matt Taylor
We are using Dell R730XD's with 2 x Internal SAS in Raid 1 for OS. 24 x 400GB SSD. PERC H730P Mini is being used with non-RAID passthrough for the SSD's. CPU and RAM specs aren't really needed to be known as you can do whatever you want, however I would recommend minimum of 2 x quad's and at

Re: [ceph-users] Dell Ceph Hardware recommendations

2016-02-09 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
Hi, I'm using dell r630 (8 disks, no expander backplane) with PERC H330 RAID Controller (supports for non-RAID passthrough) Full ssd nodes, 2x raid1 (s3700 100GB) for os + mon, passthrough for 6x osd (intel s3610 1,6TB) 64GB ram, 2x intel E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (10C/20T) H330 controller work