Not nice to hear, similar to centos I guess. For now I am sticking to my centos7 till it is eol. So I have a few years left to decide. You can of course get an el7/el8 license, I think you will be having the best match. Maybe in a few years the distribution does not matter any more, because everything will be running in container images. > -----Original Message----- > Sent: 16 February 2021 15:42 > To: ceph-users@xxxxxxx > Subject: SUSE POC - Dead in the water > > For the past several months I had been building a sizable Ceph cluster > that > will be up to 10PB with between 20 and 40 OSD servers this year. > > A few weeks ago I was informed that SUSE is shutting down SES and will > no > longer be selling it. We haven't licensed our proof of concept cluster > that is currently at 14 OSD nodes, but it looks like SUSE is not going > to > be the answer here. > > I'm seeking recommendations for consulting help on this project since > SUSE > has let me down. > > I have Ceph installed and operating, however, I've been struggling with > getting the pool configured properly for CephFS and getting very poor > performance. The OSD servers have TLC NVMe for DB, and Optane NVMe for > WAL, so I should be seeing decent performance with the current cluster. > > I'm not opposed to completely switching OS distributions. Ceph on SUSE > was > our first SUSE installation. Almost everything else we run is on > CentOS, > but that may change thanks to IBM cannibalizing CentOS. > > Please reach out to me if you can recommend someone to sell us > consulting > hours and/or a support contract. > > -Chip Schweiss > chip.schweiss@xxxxxxxxx > Washington University School of Medicine > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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