October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
9h 46m
English
It is natural to feel that more, faster CPU cores are better, but with Ceph this is usually the least effective place to spend extra money. The first and largest bottlenecks a cluster faces under load are usually saturating the storage drives or the replication network. Ceph daemons are multi threaded, so solving for core count is usually better than throwing money up the price/GHz curve. Rules of thumb can be tricky and opinions here vary, especially as CPUs evolve, but as a minimum this author suggests the following:
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