Learning Ceph - Second Edition

Corporate procurement policies

Hardware choice may be constrained by organizational policy. Perhaps your company enjoys a volume discount from HP, or has an umbrella support contract with IBM. You may even work for a company that sells servers and are thus urged or compelled to keep it in the family, dogfood style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food.

In most cases, this will not crimp your Ceph-stacking style substantially, though this author has seen three problematic instances.

• On occasion, procurement policies are so draconian that it is nearly impossible to order a custom hardware configuration, with the only choices a small handful of ill-fitting models on an anachronistic menu, for example, a 1U chassis with only ...