ceph

OK , before anyone starts "This is crazy" rant here here me out. I know this is not what it was designed to do. but just want to get some feedback on possibility. From everything I have read so far, it seams that it is theoretically possible to setup Ceph on a single node, and still have the...

Hi! I'm trying to come up with a design for a initially small-medium infrastructure that uses docker and shared multi-host storage, but I'm not entirely sure which option would suite best or be the most feasible... I apologise if this is not the right forum for this thread, and if it should...

I bought 2 Cisco SGSG550XG-24F for our new Ceph cluster. The cluster has been setup in the lab with 2 of our old Blade G8124 24x10G Switches and worked seamlessly with good performance. For the sake of simplicity no VLAN config has been used in the lab setup. Now we moved to the SG550XG (and...

I'm looking to get my feet wet in the Proxmox world... Chassis: SuperMicro 2027TR-H72RF CPU: Xeon 2x E5-2620 per node RAM: 128GB per node SSD o/s: 2x SuperMicro SSD-DM064-PHI per node SSD Ceph: 6x Samsung SM863 or Intel S3710 per node Networking: 1x Mellanox ConnectX-3 dual port 56g + 2x 1gig...

Hi, Looking for a little advise with people who has used Ceph a little more than myself! I have just purchased the following equipment 2 x Dell C6100 4 Blades in each consisting of 2 x L5640 96GB RAM 2 x 10Gb NIC Mez Cards (Waiting to be delivered) The model has 12 x 3.5" drives. I am...

I've setup a small ceph cluster 3 nodes with 5 drives in each (spinning rust type) I've got all the osd's up and in but creating a pool never seems to complete. ceph -w gives me the following status. The interesting thing is the the used portion keeps increasing its now on 115 gb but its...

I have a C6100 that I want to setup with Openstack. The only decision holding me back right now is HDD / SSD choice. Should I get some inexpensive 2TB HGST drives that have been dumped on ebay recently? Or should I get 8 Intel DC S3500 drives? (Or should I get a mix of both?) Does anyone one...

(This turned out to be a long thread start...sorry...) Im redoing my servers at home and looking to maybe redo the storage too. Today I run ESXi on two hosts and run like periodic backups to external storage, because I never really found a way to do it properly. (VMs backup via Unitrends). ...