[ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-20 Thread Nick Tan
Hi all, I'm in the process of building a ceph cluster, primarily to use cephFS. At this stage I'm in the planning phase and doing a lot of reading on best practices for building the cluster, however there's one question that I haven't been able to find an answer to. Is it better to use many host

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-20 Thread Nick Tan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Christian Balzer wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:40:29 +0800 Nick Tan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm in the process of building a ceph cluster, primarily to use cephFS. > At > > this stage I'm in the planni

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-21 Thread Nick Tan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Ronny Aasen wrote: > On 21. aug. 2017 07:40, Nick Tan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm in the process of building a ceph cluster, primarily to use cephFS. >> At this stage I'm in the planning phase and doing a lot of readi

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-21 Thread Nick Tan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:57 PM, David Turner wrote: > It is not recommended to get your cluster more than 70% full due to > rebalancing and various other reasons. That would change your 12x 10TB > disks in a host to only be 84TB if you filled your cluster to 70% full. I > still think that the mo

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-22 Thread Nick Tan
Hi Christian, > > Hi David, > > > > The planned usage for this CephFS cluster is scratch space for an image > > processing cluster with 100+ processing nodes. > > Lots of clients, how much data movement would you expect, how many images > come in per timeframe, lets say an hour? > Typical size o

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-22 Thread Nick Tan
ter if required. Thanks, Nick On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Christian Balzer wrote: > > Hello, > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:51:47 +0800 Nick Tan wrote: > > > Hi Christian, > > > > > > > > > > Hi David, > > > > > > > > The

Re: [ceph-users] pros/cons of multiple OSD's per host

2017-08-28 Thread Nick Tan
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Christian Balzer wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:38:25 +0800 Nick Tan wrote: > > > Thanks for the advice Christian. I think I'm leaning more towards the > > 'traditional' storage server with 12 disks - as you say they give a