[kwlug-disc] Interesting hardware: ARM, Ceph, server-per-hdd

L.D. Paniak ldpaniak at fourpisolutions.com
Sun Dec 27 19:02:14 EST 2020


An RPi solution is almost certainly CPU-bound for Ceph usage...

But there are server-class (32-core) ARM servers that give good
performance and efficiency for Ceph filesystem solutions:

https://www.suse.com/c/ses-best_ceph_arm_benchmarkenterprise-storage-delivers-best-cephfs-benchmark-on-arm/

On 12/27/20 6:38 PM, Jason Eckert wrote:
> A similar project popped up on the Hacker News feed today too:
> https://hackaday.io/project/175094-raspberry-pi-ceph-cluster
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:36 PM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cool appliance for sure.
>> But trying to find the pricing of it online using some Google dorking
>> turns up nothing.
>> Not a good sign. It's probably an ARM and a leg.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 12:22 PM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc
>> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting use of many ARM servers:
>>>> https://www.ambedded.com.tw/en/product/ceph-storage-appliance.html
>>>>
>>>> Its a one hdd per ARM server board model, with eight in 1U.
>>> And there is even a presentation way back from 2017! In Boston:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rY3yrE2ysQ&feature=emb_logo
>>>
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