Recent content by tekhead

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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    I really wish I could help new any further but I'm just a hobbyist learning as well. Maybe and I say maybe a dual SD pci card could be a use case for that? I've noticed some of my dell servers have that pci card. It mirrors on the other SD. Other option could be a pci card with dual nvme... For...
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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    Where did you hang up?
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    MSSQL Database in High Available

    Thank you for the input, I followed your advice. Haproxy, etcd and patroni for postgre... Great combo
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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    I am still at the early stages of my journey with Ceph but can say I was able to share a SSD between OSD. Didn't find a way to accomplish this using proxmox Gui, only cli. OSD are 4tb and SSD is 500gb. 2 OSD per SSD... Command used was: pveceph osd create /dev/sda --db_dev /dev/sdd --db_size 200
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    MSSQL Database in High Available

    I was on the forum to learn about this today and was wondering, what would be best? -Having just one instance of the database on a shared storage and letting the HA start it again on a different host in the event of a crash? or -Having a second instance of the database on a different host...
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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    Great news! So I'll format 2 partitions on the SSD, Wal and DB and all the nodes on that machine can use the same partition then.
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    CEPH shared SSD for DB/WAL?

    What did you end up doing @barius? I'm in a similar situation here. Building the cluster this weekend. 4 nodes, 2x4tb and 500gb ssd each. From the numbers I've seen the SSD should be large enough to upgrade to 4x4tb down the road. Is the partition for the WAL and DB on the SSD shared between...