Mark, We'll see if the problems follow me as I install Croit They gave a very impressive impromptu presentation shortly after I sent this call for help. I'll make sure I post some details about our CephFS endeavor as things progress, it will likely help others as they start their Ceph projects. -Chip On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 9:48 AM Mark Nelson <mnelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Chip, > > > Regarding CephFS performance, it really depends on the io patterns and > what you are trying to accomplish. Can you talk a little bit more about > what you are seeing? > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > > > On 2/16/21 8:42 AM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx