1. We never share zookeeper and broker on the same hardware. Both need significant memory to operate efficiently. 2. 14 drive setup is just for Kafka. We have a separate disk for the OS, AFAIK.
Thanks, Neha On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Ian Friedman <i...@flurry.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> >> >> > >
