Hi,
Can someone please give me some pointers, what would be the best setup for performance and reliability?
We have the following hardware setup:
3x Supermicro server with following features per server:
128GB RAM
4x 8TB SATA HDD
2x SSD drives (intel_ssdsc2ba400g4 - 400GB DC S3710)
2x 12 core CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v4 @ 2.20GHz
Quad port 10Gbe Inter NIC
2x 10GB Cisco switches (to isolate storage network from LAN)
One of the servers will be in another office, with a 600Mb wireless link for Disaster Recovery.
What is recommended for the best setup in terms of redundancy and speed?
I am guessing GlusterFS with a Distributed Striped Replicated Volume across 3 of the servers.
For added performance I want to use the SSD drives, perhaps with dm-cache?
Should I combine the 4x HDD's using LVM on each host node?
What about RAID 6?
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/?
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