Mixing HDD and SSD in Ceph? or use gluster for HDD and Ceph for SSD?

Dec 26, 2018
138
2
23
35
Hello.
We are currently building a Proxmox cluster with 3 nodes, with 2x Samsung SM863a (SSD) in each node for VM's. With a dedicated 10GBit storage network.
But we are also going to need Storage volumes for the VM's and space for backup. On HDD's-

One solution i was thinking of is adding HDD's to Ceph, but from what i have read that might kill the performance of the SSD's.

Another solution might to be add a replicated Glustefs volume on two of the servers, like HDD -> ZFS(raid10) -> Glusterfs. But this is another system to maintain.

The third solution might be to make two pool and configure ceph manually, like this:
https://ceph.com/geen-categorie/ceph-mix-sata-and-ssd-within-the-same-box/
But then the setup, and maintaining of the Ceph would get more complicated and manual.

What are your thoughts on this?
Thanks :)
 
Last edited:

About

The Proxmox community has been around for many years and offers help and support for Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.
We think our community is one of the best thanks to people like you!

Get your subscription!

The Proxmox team works very hard to make sure you are running the best software and getting stable updates and security enhancements, as well as quick enterprise support. Tens of thousands of happy customers have a Proxmox subscription. Get yours easily in our online shop.

Buy now!