I successfully installed a new cluster recently following the intructions here 
: http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/deployment/

Cheers

On 02/10/2013 16:32, shacky wrote:
> Thank you very much for your answer!
> So I could save the use of hardware RAID controllers on storage servers. Good 
> news.
> I see in the Ceph documentation that I will have to manually configure the 
> datastore to be efficient, reliable and full fault tolerant.
> Is there a particular way to configure it, or just a datastore on every hard 
> drive (12 datastores) and then Ceph will automatically use them to be 
> reliable and full fault tolerant?
> Can you advise me how to configure it in the better way?
> 
> 
> 2013/10/2 Loic Dachary <l...@dachary.org <mailto:l...@dachary.org>>
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I would not use RAID5 since it would be redundant with what Ceph provides.
> 
>     My 2cts ;-)
> 
>     On 02/10/2013 13:50, shacky wrote:
>     > Hi.
>     >
>     > I am going to create my first Ceph cluster using 3 physical servers and 
> Ubuntu distribution.
>     > Each server will have three 3Tb hard drives, connected with or without 
> a physycal RAID controller.
>     > I would have to be protect on a fault of one of this three servers, 
> having as much as space possible, but without losing the failover security.
>     >
>     > Shall I configure the hard drive on each server using RAID (5?) or not?
>     >
>     > Can you advise me the correct answer, or tell me what are the pro/cons 
> of using or not RAID on physical servers in a Ceph cluster?
>     >
>     > Thank you very much!
>     > Bye.
>     >
>     >
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