Re: [Users] deduplication

Thanks a lot Karli, you make my mind clear about deduplication, once again we cannot have the best of both worlds. I'll try FreeNAS despite my poor knowledge on FreeBSD. Openfiler, running on Linux, has no better performance but supports DRDB. Jose ------------------------------ *From: *"Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; *To: *suporte(a)logicworks.pt *Cc: *"Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org *Sent: *Sexta-feira, 31 de Maio de 2013 10:45:41 *Subject: *Re: [Users] deduplication fre 2013-05-31 klockan 09:50 +0100 skrev suporte(a)logicworks.pt: So, we can say that dedup has more disadvantages than advantages. For a primary system; most definitely, yes. But for a backup system, that has tons of RAM and SSD's for cache, and you have lots of virtual machines that are based off of the template, or are very much the same, then you have a real use-case. I´m active at the FreeBSD forums where one person reports storing 150TB of data in only 30TB of physical disk. The best practice of scrubbing is once a week on "enterprise" systems, though he is only able to do it once a month, because that´s how long it takes for a scrub to complete in that system. So you´ve got to choose performance or savings, you can´t have both. And what about dedup of Netapp? Much better implementation, in my opinion. You are able schedule dedup-runs to go at night so your user´s performance isn´t impacted, and you get the savings. The question is if you value the savings enough to take on price-tag that is NetApp. Or just build your own FreeBSD/ZFS server with compression enabled and buy in standard HDD's from anywhere... We did;) /Karli Jose ------------------------------ *From: *"Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg(a)slu.se&gt; *To: *suporte(a)logicworks.pt *Cc: *"Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org *Sent: *Quinta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2013 8:33:19 *Subject: *Re: [Users] deduplication ons 2013-05-29 klockan 09:59 +0100 skrev suporte(a)logicworks.pt: Absolutely agree with you, planning is the best thing to do, but normally people want a plug'n'play system with all included, because there is not much time to think and planning, and there are many companies that know how to take advantage of this people characteristics. Any way, I think another solution for dedup is FreeNAS using ZFS. FreeNAS is just FreeBSD with a fancy web-ui ontop, so it´s neither more or less of ZFS than you would have otherwise, And regarding dedup in ZFS; Just don´t, it´s not worth it! It´s said that it *may* increase performance when you have a very suitable usecase, e.g. everything *exactly* the same over and over. What´s not said is that scrubbing and resilvering slows down to a snail (from hundreds of MB/s, or GB if your system is large enough, down to less than 10), just from dedup. Also deleting snapshots of datasets that have(or have had) dedup on can kill the entire system, and when I say kill, I mean really fubar. Been there, regretted that... Now, compression on the other hand, you get basically for free and gives decent savings, I highly recommend that. /Karli Jose ------------------------------ *From: *"Jiri Belka" <jbelka(a)redhat.com&gt; *To: *suporte(a)logicworks.pt *Cc: *users(a)ovirt.org *Sent: *Quarta-feira, 29 de Maio de 2013 7:33:10 *Subject: *Re: [Users] deduplication On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:29:05 +0100 (WEST) suporte(a)logicworks.pt wrote: > That's why I'm making this questions, to demystify some buzzwords around here. > But if you have a strong and good technology why not create buzzwords to get into as many people as possible? without trapped them. > Share a disk containing "static" data is a good idea, do you know from where I can start? Everything depends on your needs, design planning. Maybe then sharing disk would be better to share via NFS/iscsi. Of course if you have many VMs each of them is different you will fail. But if you have mostly homogeneous environment you can think about this approach. Sure you have to have plan for upgrading "base" "static" shared OS data, you have to have plan how to install additional software (different destination than /usr or /usr/local)... If you already have your own build host which builds for you OS packages and you have already your own plan for deployment, you have done first steps. If you depend on upgrading each machine separately from Internet, then first you should plan your environment, configuration management etc. Well, in many times people do not do any planning, they just think some good technology would save their "poor" design. j. -- Med Vänliga Hälsningar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karli Sjöberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8) S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Phone: +46-(0)18-67 15 66 karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se <karli.sjoberg(a)adm.slu.se&gt; -- Med Vänliga Hälsningar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karli Sjöberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8) S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Phone: +46-(0)18-67 15 66 karli.sjoberg(a)slu.se <karli.sjoberg(a)adm.slu.se&gt; _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users