From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Nelson Subject: Re: Request for ceph.conf environment extension Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 10:40:06 -0500 Message-ID: <5187CED6.5020307@inktank.com> References: <20130506091822.GA26022@upset.ux.pdb.fsc.net> <5187AEDC.6070202@inktank.com> <5187B4B3.1080304@mermaidconsulting.dk> <5187B5CC.8020901@mermaidconsulting.dk> <5187B832.70504@mermaidconsulting.dk> <5187BB9F.4020301@mermaidconsulting.dk> <5187C556.6050406@inktank.com> <5187C96A.8060504@mermaidconsulting.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:33621 "EHLO mail-ie0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754997Ab3EFPkJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2013 11:40:09 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id at1so2917307iec.35 for ; Mon, 06 May 2013 08:40:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5187C96A.8060504@mermaidconsulting.dk> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Kristian_S=F8gaard?= Cc: Gandalf Corvotempesta , Andreas Friedrich , Ceph Development On 05/06/2013 10:16 AM, Jens Kristian S=F8gaard 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 th= at. > This switch has a 160 Gb/s backplane, so I don't foresee any problems= =2E > > Especially considering that I'm mixing the public and private network= s > on the same switch. > >> On really big deployments, static routing becomes a pretty big issue= =2E >> 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-s= witch. > > I'm looking at a very small deployment (probably 8 servers). Ha, ok. I suspect you'll be fine. Nothing like over-thinking the=20 problem right? :) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html