Hi,

If you don't specifiy WAL it will be located on the same drive as the rocksdb. 
You need to specify wal if you have faster disk the your rocksdb, like DATA on 
HDD, Rocksdb on SSD, wal on nvme/optane.

In the past they suggested like this:
300GB data 30GB rocksdb, 3GB wal. Not sure is this still true.

Istvan Szabo
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
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From: Dave Hall <kdh...@binghamton.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 11:27 PM
To: ceph-users <ceph-users@ceph.io>
Subject: [ceph-users] Bluestore OSD Layout - WAL, DB, Journal

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Hello,

I'm in the process of doubling the number of OSD nodes in my Nautilus cluster - 
 from 3 to 6.  Based on answers receive from earlier posts to this list, the 
new nodes have more NVMe that the old nodes.  More to the point, on the 
original nodes the amount of NVMe allocated to each OSD was about 120GB, so the 
RocksDB was limited to 30GB.  However, for my workload 300GB is probably 
recommended.

As I prepare to lay out the NVMe on these new nodes, I'm still trying to 
understand how to size the DB and WAL for my OSDs and whether Journal is even 
needed.

According to https://docs.ceph.com/en/nautilus/ceph-volume/lvm/prepare/
<https://docs.ceph.com/en/nautilus/ceph-volume/lvm/prepare/>

> Bluestore supports the following configurations:
>
>   * A block device, a block.wal, and a block.db device
>   * A block device and a block.wal device
>   * A block device and a block.db device
>   * A single block device
>
First question:  On my first nodes I managed to get a DB, but no WAL.
My current perception is that WAL and DB occupy separate physical/logical 
partitions.  By specifying a WAL size and a DB size, ceph-volume will create 
the corresponding logical volumes on the NVMe.
Is this correct?  It is also possible to lay these out as basic logical 
partitions?

Second question:   How do I decide whether I need WAL, DB, or both?

Third question:  Once I answer the above WAL/DB question, what are the 
guidelines for sizing them?

Thanks.

-Dave

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Binghamton University

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