Re: Request for ceph.conf environment extension

[Mark Nelson <mark.nelson@inktank.com>]

On 05/06/2013 10:16 AM, Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Just from a raw performance perspective, you might
>> want to make sure that the switch can handle lots of randomly
>> distributed traffic between all of the ports well.  I'd expect that it
>> shouldn't be too terrible, but who knows.
>
> It has been many years since I've seen a switch have problems with that.
> This switch has a 160 Gb/s backplane, so I don't foresee any problems.
>
> Especially considering that I'm mixing the public and private networks
> on the same switch.
>
>> On really big deployments, static routing becomes a pretty big issue.
>> Dynamic routing, or at least well optimized routes can make a huge
>
> I use dedicated routers for routing, the switch is just a "dumb" L2-switch.
>
> I'm looking at a very small deployment (probably 8 servers).

Ha, ok.  I suspect you'll be fine.  Nothing like over-thinking the 
problem right? :)

>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html