<div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div>Can someone please give me some pointers, what would be the best setup for performance and reliability?</div><div><br></div><div>We have the following hardware setup:</div><div><div><font color="#2c2c2c" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><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></div><div><br></div><div><div>One of the servers will be in another office, with a 600Mb wireless link for Disaster Recovery. </div><div><br></div><div>What is recommended for the best setup in terms of redundancy and speed?</div><div><br></div><div>I am guessing GlusterFS with a Distributed Striped Replicated Volume across 3 of the servers. </div><div><br></div><div>For added performance I want to use the SSD drives, perhaps with dm-cache?</div><div><br></div><div>Should I combine the 4x HDD's using LVM on each host node?</div><div>What about RAID 6?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><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></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Kind Regards<br>Rudi Ahlers<br>Website: <a href="http://www.rudiahlers.co.za" target="_blank">http://www.rudiahlers.co.za</a><br></div>
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