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<p>Helli Rudi</p>
<p>Nice specs.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>For the SSDs I have been using bcache with success. Relatively
simple to setup and pretty good performance.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Hope it helps.</p>
<p>Fernando<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/11/2017 08:03, Rudi Ahlers wrote:<br>
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<div>Can someone please give me some pointers, what would be the
best setup for performance and reliability?</div>
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<div>We have the following hardware setup:</div>
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<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br>
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<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">3x
Supermicro server with following features per server:</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">128GB RAM</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">4x 8TB SATA
HDD</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">2x SSD
drives (intel_ssdsc2ba400g4 - 400GB DC S3710)</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">2x 12 core
CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Quad port
10Gbe Inter NIC</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">2x 10GB
Cisco switches (to isolate storage network from LAN)</span></font></div>
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<div>One of the servers will be in another office, with a
600Mb wireless link for Disaster Recovery. </div>
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<div>What is recommended for the best setup in terms of
redundancy and speed?</div>
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<div>I am guessing GlusterFS with a Distributed Striped
Replicated Volume across 3 of the servers. </div>
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<div>For added performance I want to use the SSD drives,
perhaps with dm-cache?</div>
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<div>Should I combine the 4x HDD's using LVM on each host
node?</div>
<div>What about RAID 6?</div>
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<div>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/? </div>
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<div class="gmail_signature">Kind Regards<br>
Rudi Ahlers<br>
Website: <a href="http://www.rudiahlers.co.za"
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