Sadly, it's always 'It depends'.You definitely have to test with your workload. One setup I see -> create a small replica volume for the OS of the VMs and a second one (disperse volume) for the data disks. Then, test and consider if it's enough for you. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 20:02, alishirv--- via Users<users@ovirt.org> wrote: Thanks a lot, another reason alongside the storage overhead that led me to erasure coding was the idle CPU cycles on our servers. Currently, we have enough idle CPU cycles on our servers. Do you think erasure coding is a bad choice even if we have enough idle CPUs? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/ME7SBP4G535BWD...