Folks, I'm new in ceph world, and still in learning stage, this is what I have in my inventory to build cluster please need some suggestions. 5 x HP DL360p G8 / 32 core 2.9Ghz / 32GB memory / 2x10G nic (server has 10 HDD slot) 3 x HP DL 460c blades for Monitor ( I'm not very worried about resousr here) 15 x SSD 500GB ( Samsung EVO) 15 x SATA 1TB 7.5k My requirements is for openstack vm just for block storage, 1. how should layout my drives ? 2. How many sad for journal? 3. Should I put all SSD on single box or should spread out? 3. For avarage load does SATA 7.5k enough ? 4. Do you think DL 360p G8 would be good enough or I need more powerful? My all application is mostly web / small DB / some CPU crunching application ( need CPU core) Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com