Hello Rudi
If you have a 4th server it may work,but I am not knowledgeable about
Gluster's GEOreplication. Perhaps someone else can advise.
With regards RAID 5 for 4 disks this is intended for capacity and as
mentioned 4 disks is the maximum I would use for RAID5. As you have SSDs
and intend to use a caching technique like bcache ou dm-cache this
should cover the performance hit of RAID 5 write.
If you consider using RAID 6 in only 4 disks you are much better of
using RAID 10 then as you will have double write performance and same
capacity. I normally use RAID 10 or in ZFS configurations (not this
case) multiple vdevs of RAID6.
For RAID in Linux I have been using mdraid. I know LVM does some Raid
but I personally never done myself so can't advise.
Regards.
Fernando
On 13/11/2017 10:19, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi Fernando,
Thanx.
I meant to say, the 4th server will be in another office. It's about
3Km away and I was thinking of using Gluster's GEOreplication for this
purpose.
I am not a fond user of RAID5 at all. But this raises the question:
does RAID add any unnecessary overhead? I would rather run RAID 6 or
RAI10.
And then, if RAID is the preferred way (over LVM?), as I don't have
dedicated hardware RAID cards, would mdraid add any benefit?
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:47 PM, FERNANDO FREDIANI
<fernando.fredi...@upx.com <mailto:fernando.fredi...@upx.com>> wrote:
Helli Rudi
Nice specs.
I wouldn't use GlusterFS for this setup with the third server in a
different location. Just have this server as an Standalone and
replicate the VMs there. You won't have real time replication, but
much less hassle and probably to have constant failures, specially
knowing you have a wireless link.
For the SSDs I have been using bcache with success. Relatively
simple to setup and pretty good performance.
For your specs as you have 4 mechanical disks I would recommend
you to have a RAID 5 between them (4 disks is my limit for RAID 5)
and a RAID 0 made of SSDs for the bcache device. If the RAID 0
fails for any reason it will fall back directly to the mechanical
disks and you can do maintenance on the Node doing live migration
in order to replace the failed disks.
However as you have you have 2 remaining server to create your
cluster you may need to consider GlusterFS on the top of this RAID
to have the replication and Highavaibility.
Hope it helps.
Fernando
On 13/11/2017 08:03, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please give me some pointers, what would be the best
setup for performance and reliability?
We have the following hardware setup:
3x Supermicro server with following features per server:
128GB RAM
4x 8TB SATA HDD
2x SSD drives (intel_ssdsc2ba400g4 - 400GB DC S3710)
2x 12 core CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Quad port 10Gbe Inter NIC
2x 10GB Cisco switches (to isolate storage network from LAN)
One of the servers will be in another office, with a 600Mb
wireless link for Disaster Recovery.
What is recommended for the best setup in terms of redundancy and
speed?
I am guessing GlusterFS with a Distributed Striped Replicated
Volume across 3 of the servers.
For added performance I want to use the SSD drives, perhaps with
dm-cache?
Should I combine the 4x HDD's using LVM on each host node?
What about RAID 6?
Virtual Machines will then reside on the oVirt Cluster and any
one of the 3 host nodes can fail, or any single HDD can fail and
all should still work, right/?
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