Hello everyone, We are in the process of buying hardware for our first ceph-cluster. We will start with some testing and do some performance measurements to see that we are on the right track, and once we are satisfied with our setup we'll continue to grow in it as time comes along. Now, I'm just seeking some thoughts on our future hardware, I know there are a lot of these kind of questions out there, so please forgive me for posting another one. Details, - Cluster will be in the same datacenter, multiple racks as we grow - Typical workload (this is incredible vague, forgive me again) would be an Openstack environment, hosting 150~200 vms, we'll have quite a few databases for Jira/Confluence/etc. Some workload coming from Stash/Bamboo agents, puppet master/foreman, and other typical "core infra stuff". Given this prerequisites just given, the going all SSD's (and NVME for journals) may seem as overkill(?), but we feel like we can afford it and it will be a benefit for us in the future. Planned hardware, Six nodes to begin with (which would give us a cluster size of ~46TB, with a default replica of three (although probably a bit bigger since the vm's would be backed by a erasure coded pool) will look something like, - 1x Intel E5-2695 v4 2.1GHz, 45M Cache, 18 Cores - 2x Dell 64 GB RDIMM 2400MT - 12x Dell 1.92TB Mix Use MLC 12Gbps (separate OS disks) - 2x Dell 1.6TB NVMe Mixed usage (6 osd's per NVME) Network between all nodes within a rack will be 40Gbit (and 200Gbit between racks), backed by Junipers QFX5200-32C. Rather then asking the question, - "Does this seems reasonable for our workload ?", I want to ask, - "Is there any reason *not* have a setup like this, is there any obvious bottlenecks or flaws that we are missing or could this may very well work as good start (and the ability to grow with adding more servers) ?" When it comes to workload-wise-issues, I think we'll just have to see and grow as we learn. We'll be grateful for any input, thoughts, ideas suggestions, you name it. Best regards, Patrik Martinsson, Sweden _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com