>>> Given that "massive" is a relative term, I am as well... but I'm >>> also trying to reduce the footprint (power and space) of that >>> "massive" cluster. >>> I also >>> want to start small (1/2 rack) and scale as needed. >> >> If you do end up testing Brazos processes, please post your results! >> I think it really depends on what kind of performance you are aiming for. >> Our stock 2U test boxes have 6-core opterons, and our SC847a has dual >> 6-core low power Xeon E5s. At 10GbE+ these are probably going to be >> pushed pretty hard, especially during recovery. >> > > I'm aiming for a Ceph cluster of a couple of hundred TB consisting out > of 5 or 6 racks full of 1U machines with each 4x 1TB. Thinking along the lines of the approach of many 1U by 4 drive host (as above) with no hardware RAID... what are the thoughts between SATAII (3G/s) vs SATAIII (6G/s) and on 1G Ethernet versus 10G Ethernet. - Steve P.S. I will be assuming a replication level of 3 copies and would probably be looking at 10 nodes or less initially. Maybe populating with 6 drives instead of 4 (if I can find the right chassis). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
