<div dir="auto"><div>Lots of great hardware knowledge in this thread! I'm also making the move to 10Gb.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm adding a 3rd host to my deployment and moving to Glusterfs on 3 nodes, from my current NFS share on a separate storage server. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Each of the 3 nodes has dual E5-2640 V4s with128Gb ram. I have some hardware choices I would love some advice about:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- Should I use Intel X520-DA2 or X710-DA2 nics for the storage network? No significant price difference. The hosts are running oVirt Node 4.2. I hope to use them in bridge mode so that I don't need a 10Gbe switch. I do have a single 10Gbe port left on my router. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- the hosts have 12Gbps 520i SAS cards, should I spec 6 or 12 Gbps SSD drives? Here there is a large price difference, also large difference between Enterprise performance, Enterprise mainstream, and Enterprise entry. I'm not sure how to estimate the value of those different options in a Glusterfs deployment. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The workload is pretty I/O intensive with fairly small read/write operations (under 128Kb) on windows VMs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Any obvious weak links with this plan?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 12:27 PM Michael Watters, <<a href="mailto:wattersm@watters.ws">wattersm@watters.ws</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We run Dell Poweredge R720s and R730s with 32 GB of RAM and quad Xeon<br>
processors. Storage is provided by Dell MD3800i and Promise arrays<br>
using iSCSI. The network is all 10 gigabit interfaces using 802.3ad<br>
bonds. We actually just upgraded from 1 gigabit NICs since there were<br>
some performance issues with storage causing high IOwait on VMs. I'd<br>
recommend avoiding 1 gigabit if you can.<br>
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On 3/24/18 4:33 AM, Andy Michielsen wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Not sure if this is the place to be asking this but I was wondering which hardware you all are using and why in order for me to see what I would be needing.<br>
><br>
> I would like to set up a HA cluster consisting off 3 hosts to be able to run 30 vm’s.<br>
> The engine, I can run on an other server. The hosts can be fitted with the storage and share the space through glusterfs. I would think I will be needing at least 3 nic’s but would be able to install ovn. (Are 1gb nic’s sufficient ?)<br>
><br>
> Any input you guys would like to share would be greatly appriciated.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
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