Re: running Qemu / Hypervisor AND Ceph on the same nodes

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On 26-03-15 12:04, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> Hi Wido,
> Am 26.03.2015 um 11:59 schrieb Wido den Hollander:
>> On 26-03-15 11:52, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> in the past i rwad pretty often that it's not a good idea to run ceph
>>> and qemu / the hypervisors on the same nodes.
>>>
>>> But why is this a bad idea? You save space and can better use the
>>> ressources you have in the nodes anyway.
>>>
>>
>> Memory pressure during recovery *might* become a problem. If you make
>> sure that you don't allocate more then let's say 50% for the guests it
>> could work.
> 
> mhm sure? I've never seen problems like that. Currently i ran each ceph
> node with 64GB of memory and each hypervisor node with around 512GB to
> 1TB RAM while having 48 cores.
> 

Yes, it can happen. You have machines with enough memory, but if you
overprovision the machines it can happen.

>> Using cgroups you could also prevent that the OSDs eat up all memory or CPU.
> Never seen an OSD doing so crazy things.
> 

Again, it really depends on the available memory and CPU. If you buy big
machines for this purpose it probably won't be a problem.

> Stefan
> 
>> So technically it could work, but memorey and CPU pressure is something
>> which might give you problems.
>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
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