March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
10h 7m
English
When choosing the disks to build a Ceph cluster with, there is always the temptation to go with the biggest disks you can, as the total cost of ownership figures looks great on paper. Unfortunately, in reality this is often not a great choice. While disks have dramatically increased in capacity over the last 20 years, their performance hasn't. Firstly, you should ignore any sequential MB/s figures, as you will never see them in enterprise workloads; there is always something making the I/O pattern non-sequential enough that it might as well be completely random. Secondly, remember the following figures:
As a general rule, if you are designing ...
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