Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-22 Thread Martin Verges
Hello Salsa, Amazing! Where were you 3 months ago? Only problem is that I think we have > no moer budget for this so I can't get approval for software license. > We where here and on some Ceph days as well. We do provide a completely free version but with limited features (no HA, LDAP,...) but

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-21 Thread mj
Hi, In the case of three ceph hosts, you could also consider this setup: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Full_Mesh_Network_for_Ceph_Server This only requires that you have two 10G nics on each machine. Plus an extra 1G for 'regular' non-ceph traffic. That way at least your ceph comms would be

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Marc Roos
> >> > - Use 2 HDDs for SO using RAID 1 (I've left 3.5TB unallocated in case >> >> I can use it later for storage) >> >> OS not? get enterprise ssd as os (I think some recommend it when >> colocating monitors, can generate a lot of disk io) > >Yes, OS. I have no option to get a SSD.

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Salsa
Replying inline. -- Salsa Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 20, 2019 1:34 PM, Martin Verges wrote: > Hello Salsa, > >> I have tested Ceph using VMs but never got to put it to use and had a lot of >> trouble to

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Salsa
to create a fancy solution, you can use something like mesos > that manages your nfs,smb,iscsi or rgw daemons, so if you bring down a > host, applications automatically move to a different host ;) Hmm, gotta read more on that. Thanks for the advice. > > -Original Message- &g

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Martin Verges
Hello Salsa, I have tested Ceph using VMs but never got to put it to use and had a lot > of trouble to get it to install. > if you want to get rid of all the troubles from installing to day2day operations, you could consider using https://croit.io/croit-virtual-demo - Use 2 HDDs for SO using

Re: [ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Marc Roos
u can use something like mesos that manages your nfs,smb,iscsi or rgw daemons, so if you bring down a host, applications automatically move to a different host ;) -Original Message- From: Salsa [mailto:sa...@protonmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 20 september 2019 18:14 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.

[ceph-users] Need advice with setup planning

2019-09-20 Thread Salsa
I have tested Ceph using VMs but never got to put it to use and had a lot of trouble to get it to install. Now I've been asked to do a production setup using 3 servers (Dell R740) with 12 4TB each. My plan is this: - Use 2 HDDs for SO using RAID 1 (I've left 3.5TB unallocated in case I can use