Re: [ceph-users] Ceph with SSD and HDD mixed

2015-07-21 Thread Johannes Formann
Hello Mario, in the end your workload defines which option(s) can be considered. They are different trade offs between read/write performance and the price That depend on your workload. E.g. - distribution of reads/writes - size of IO Requests (4k IO-Operations or 4MB..) - „locality“ of the

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph with SSD and HDD mixed

2015-07-21 Thread Mario Codeniera
Hi Johannes, Thanks for your reply. I am naive for this, no idea how to make a configurations or where I can starts? based on the 4 options mentioned. Hope you can expound it further if possible. Best regards, Mario On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Johannes Formann mlm...@formann.de wrote:

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph with SSD and HDD mixed

2015-07-21 Thread Дробышевский , Владимир
Hi, Mario! Can you give more information about your cluster? Number of nodes, OSDs per node, HDD models etc? In general, you can use SSD as OSD journals ( http://irq0.org/articles/ceph/journal ), but it will give you performance boost on relatively small bursty workloads. If you'll just mix

[ceph-users] Ceph with SSD and HDD mixed

2015-07-20 Thread Mario Codeniera
Hi, Can someone give an insights, if it possible to mixed SSD with HDD? on the OSD. How can we speed up the uploading for file for example, as per experience it took around 18mins to load 20Gb images (via glance), in 1Gb network. Or it is just normal? Regards, Mario

Re: [ceph-users] Ceph with SSD and HDD mixed

2015-07-20 Thread Johannes Formann
Hi, Can someone give an insights, if it possible to mixed SSD with HDD? on the OSD. you’ll have more or less four options: - SSDs for the journals of the OSD-process (SSD must be able to perform good on synchronous writes) - an SSD only pool for „high performance“ data - Using SSDs for the