On 05/20/2013 08:01 AM, Bjorn Mork wrote:
Hi Team, This is my first post to this community. I have some basic queries to start with CEPH software...I found that http://www.supermicro.com.tw/products/system/2U/6027/SSG-6027R-E1R12T.cfm is being recommend as a start of storage server.
This is a reasonable server for a basic Ceph POC using spinning disks with no SSD journals. Since it's using on-board ethernet and RAID, it should be relatively inexpensive, but if any of the on-board components fail the whole motherboard has to be replaced. It's a good starting point though.
As my target is to start with 12 TB solution (production environment, high performance) having three copies of my data. I am confused, that 1. How many servers will be required i.e OSD, MON, MDS (above mentioned chassis).
For production you should have at least 3 MONs. You only need an MDS if you plan to use CephFS. We tend to recommend 1 OSD per disk for most configurations.
2. Should I separate role to each server? or single server will be good enough?
You want each MON on a different server, and for a production deployment I really don't like seeing less than 5 servers for OSDs. You can technically run a single mon and all of your OSDs on 1 server, but it's not really what Ceph was designed for.
3. How many raid-cards in each server will be required? 3.1 I mean separate for read and write can be configured or not? I need best performance and throughput.
There's a lot of different ways you can configure ceph servers with various trade-offs. A general rule of thumb is that you want at least 3-5 servers for OSDs (and preferably more), and for high performance SSD journals or at the very least a controller with WB cache and 1 OSD per disk.
You may be interested in some of our performance comparison tests: http://ceph.com/community/ceph-performance-part-1-disk-controller-write-throughput/ http://ceph.com/community/ceph-performance-part-2-write-throughput-without-ssd-journals/ http://ceph.com/uncategorized/argonaut-vs-bobtail-performance-preview/ Mark
Can anyone suggest? Thanks in advance... B~Mork _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
_______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
