Re: [ovirt-users] Hardware critique

I always found replica 3 a complete overkill. Don't know people made that up that was necessary. Just looks good and costs a lot with little benefit.

Normally when using magnetic disks 2 copies are fine for most scenarios, but if using SSDs for similar scenarios depending on the configuration of each node disks it is possible to have a RAID 5/6 ish. Fernando 2018-04-05 17:38 GMT-03:00 Vincent Royer <vincent(a)epicenergy.ca&gt;: > Jayme, > > I'm doing a very similar build, the only difference really is I am using > SSDs instead of HDDs. I have similar questions as you regarding expected > performance. Have you considered JBOD + NFS? Putting a Gluster Replica 3 > on top of RAID 10 arrays sounds very safe, but my gosh the capacity takes a > massive hit. Am I correct in saying you will only get 4TB total usable > capacity out of 24TB worth of disks? The cost per TB in that sort of > scenario is immense. > > My plan is two 2TB SSDs per server in JBOD with a caching raid card, with > replica 3. I would end up with the same 4TB total capacity using 12TB of > SSDs. > > I think Replica 3 is safe enough that you could forgo the RAID 10. But > I'm talking from zero experience... Would love others to chime in with > their opinions on both these setups. > > *Vincent Royer* > *778-825-1057* > > > <http://www.epicenergy.ca/> > *SUSTAINABLE MOBILE ENERGY SOLUTIONS* > > > > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Jayme <jaymef(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Thanks for your feedback. Any other opinions on this proposed setup? >> I'm very torn over using GlusterFS and what the expected performance may >> be, there seems to be little information out there. Would love to hear any >> feedback specifically from ovirt users on hyperconverged configurations. >> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Alex K <rightkicktech(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> You should be ok with the setup. >>> I am running around 20 vms (linux and windows, small and medium size) >>> with the half of your specs. With 10G network replica 3 is ok. >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 16:13 Jayme <jaymef(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> I'm spec'ing hardware for a 3-node oVirt build (on somewhat of a >>>> budget). I plan to do 20-30 Linux VMs most of them very light weight + a >>>> couple of heavier hitting web and DB servers with frequent rsync backups. >>>> Some have a lot of small files from large github repos etc. >>>> >>>> 3X of the following: >>>> >>>> Dell PowerEdge R720 >>>> 2x 2.9 GHz 8 Core E5-2690 (SR0L0) >>>> 256GB RAM >>>> PERC H710 >>>> 2x10GB Nic >>>> >>>> Boot/OS will likely be two cheaper small sata/ssd in raid 1. >>>> >>>> Gluster bricks comprised of 4x2TB WD Gold 7200RPM SATA HDDs in RAID 10 >>>> per server. Using a replica 3 setup (and I'm thinking right now with no >>>> arbiter for extra redundancy, although I'm not sure what the performance >>>> hit may be as a result). Will this allow for two host failure or just one? >>>> >>>> I've been really struggling with storage choices, it seems very >>>> difficult to predict the performance of glusterFS due to the variance in >>>> hardware (everyone is using something different). I'm not sure if the >>>> performance will be adequate enough for my needs. >>>> >>>> I will be using an all ready existing Netgear XS716T 10GB switch for >>>> Gluster storage network. >>>> >>>> In addition I plan to build another simple glusterFS storage server >>>> that I can use to georeplicate the gluster volume to for DR purposes and >>>> use existing hardware to build an independent standby oVirt host that is >>>> able to start up a few high priority VMs from the georeplicated glusterFS >>>> volume if for some reason the primary oVirt cluster/glusterFS volume ever >>>> failed. >>>> >>>> I would love to hear any advice or critiques on this plan. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users