I've heard of people running dense nodes (8+ TB) using fusion I/O, but with 10GBe connections. I mean why buy a Ferrari and never leave first gear?
As far as saturating the network goes, I guess that all depends on your workload, and how often you need to repair. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 6, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote: > > We’re looking at switching data centers and they’re offering pretty > aggressive pricing on boxes with fusion IO cards. > > 2x 1.2TB Fusion IO > 128GB RAM > 20 cores. > > now.. this isn’t the typical cassandra box. Most people are running multiple > nodes to scale out vs scale vertically. But these boxes are priced > aggressively and honestly I think that cassandra would be able to saturate > the gigabit ethernet port on these machines. > > so it *might* be that these are TOO powerful in a way. > > Curious if others are running in this config and what tuning options were > required to get it to work. > > Kevin > > -- > Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com > Location: San Francisco, CA > blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com > … or check out my Google+ profile >
