Thanks Jun. Couple more questions: 1. Do you guys have dedicated hardware for Zookeeper or do you have a few machines run both a ZK and a broker? If so, do you keep the ZK and Kafka data on separate volumes? 2. You use the 14 drive raid setup is just for Kafka data and a separate drive for the OS?
Thanks again, Ian On Friday, March 29, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Jun Rao wrote: > It's more or less the same. Our new server has 14 sata disks, each of 1 TB. > The disk also has better write latency due to larger write cache. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com > (mailto:i...@flurry.com)> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm wondering how up to date the hardware specs listed on this page are: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Operations > > > > We're evaluating hardware for a Kafka broker/ZK quorum buildout and > > looking for some tips and/or sample configurations if anyone can help us > > out with some recommendations. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Ian > > > > >