So yes you can get the servers for a considerably lower price than Intel. Its not just about the CPU cost but many arm servers are based on a SOC that includes networking so the overall cost of the motherboard/processor/networking is a lot lower.
It doesn't reduce the price of the storage or memory though which are a large part of the cost. Power consumption on ARM processors is considerably lower than on Intel. Think in the order of 100W per server which adds up over the course of a year. ARM have done work to extend the ISA-L so they have hardware accelerated things like erasure coding in the same way that intel have. Having done a lot of testing on ARM including IO500 work then I can certainly say it works. We didn't hit any problems that where arm specific and certainly pushed things performance wise. Yes you have to consider clock speeds of the processors as quite a few things in CEPH are single threaded but having all the extra cores means you can run many processes for things like MDS and OSD’s. Darren From: Martin Verges <martin.ver...@croit.io> Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 13:09 To: Robert Sander <r.san...@heinlein-support.de> Cc: ceph-users <ceph-users@ceph.io> Subject: [ceph-users] Re: Ceph on ARM ? Hello, > I'm curious however if the ARM servers are better or not for this use case > (object-storage only). For example, instead of using 2xSilver/Gold server, I > can use a Taishan 5280 server with 2x Kungpen 920 ARM CPUs with up to 128 > cores in total . So I can have twice as many CPU cores (or even more) per > server comparing with x86. Probably the price is lower for the ARM servers > as well. Even if they would be cheaper, which I strongly doubt, you will get less performance out of them. More cores won't give you any benefit in Ceph, but having much faster cores is somewhat of a game changer. Just use a good AMD Epyc for best price/performance/power ratio. > Has anyone tested Ceph in such scenario? Is the Ceph software really > optimised for the ARM architecture ? What do you think about this ? If you choose ARM for your Ceph, you are one of very very few people and will most properly hit some crazy bugs that will cause trouble. A high price to pay in my opinion just for an "imaginary" performance or power reduction benefit. Storage has to run 24*7 all year long without a single incident. Everything else in my world is inacceptable. -- Martin Verges Managing director Mobile: +49 174 9335695 E-Mail: martin.ver...@croit.io Chat: https://t.me/MartinVerges croit GmbH, Freseniusstr. 31h, 81247 Munich CEO: Martin Verges - VAT-ID: DE310638492 Com. register: Amtsgericht Munich HRB 231263 Web: https://croit.io YouTube: https://goo.gl/PGE1Bx Am Di., 24. Nov. 2020 um 13:57 Uhr schrieb Robert Sander <r.san...@heinlein-support.de>: > > Am 24.11.20 um 13:12 schrieb Adrian Nicolae: > > > Has anyone tested Ceph in such scenario ? Is the Ceph software > > really optimised for the ARM architecture ? > > Personally I have not run Ceph on ARM, but there are companies selling > such setups: > > https://softiron.com/ > https://www.ambedded.com.tw/ > > Regards > -- > Robert Sander > Heinlein Support GmbH > Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin > > http://www.heinlein-support.de > > Tel: 030 / 405051-43 > Fax: 030 / 405051-19 > > Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: > HRB 93818 B / Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg, > Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein -- Sitz: Berlin > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
