[Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-04 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi I am implementing a small Openstack production system across two sites. This will initially have 2 controller nodes (also acting as network nodes) and 2 compute nodes at each site. Network up to hadware load balancers will be 10gbe. Expectation is we will be running about 80-100 VMs at each

Re: [Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-04 Thread Drew Weaver
with SSD. Thanks, -Drew From: Ian Marshall [mailto:ian.marsh...@freedom-finance.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 2:17 AM To: openstack@lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution Hi I am implementing a small Openstack production system across two sites

Re: [Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-04 Thread Alvin Starr
100 servers has your running 400GB of ram and 2TB of storage per server or 4TB of storage overall. That would actually be within the range of 2 systems using DBRB and SSDs and you would get extremely fast performance. I would argue that CEPH works best for large data sets and where there

Re: [Openstack] Ceph as unified storage solution

2014-04-04 Thread Ian Marshall
Hi 'All' Thanks for your responses, If going with a Ceph storage solution, the plan would be to use two R720xds per site with each having 128Gb RAM, 10gbe network connections and 24 x 600Gb 10k SAS drives for each storage server with each disk being a single OSD setup as RAID0. Regards Ian