[ovirt-users] Hardware for Hyperconverged oVirt: Gluster storage best practice

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 1:43 PM, <ovirt at fateknollogee.com> wrote:

> Martin,
>
> Looking to test oVirt on real hardware (aka no nesting)
>
> Scenario # 1:
> 1x Supermicro 2027TR-HTRF 2U 4 node server
>

Is that a hyper-converged setup of both oVirt and Gluster?
We usually do it in batches of 3 nodes.

I will install the o/s for each node on a SATADOM.
> Since each node will have 6x SSD for gluster storage.
> Should this be software RAID, hardware RAID or no RAID?
>

I'd reckon that you should prefer HW RAID on software RAID, and some RAID
on no RAID at all, but it really depends on your budget, performance, and
your availability requirements.


>
> Scenario # 2:
> 3x SuperMicro SC216E16-R1200LPB 2U server
> Each server has 24x 2.5" bays (front) + 2x 2.5" bays (rear)
> I will install the o/s on the drives using the rear bays (maybe RAID 1?)
>

Makes sense (I could not see the rear bays - might have missed them).
Will you be able to put some SSDs there for caching?


> For Gluster, we will use the 24 front bays.
> Should this be software RAID, hardware RAID or no RAID?
>

Same answer is above.
Y.


> Thanks
> Femi
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