pveceph - firefly or giant?

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nethfel

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Hi all,

I've been experimenting with our cluster setup and I have a decent grasp of what we can and can't do with our equipment and I'm about to do a final wipe to our cluster to prep it to replace our vmware servers. I do have a quick question - I think pveceph install by default will install firefly - do those that have tried both firefly and giant, which performs better so far for proxmox?
 
nethfel said:
Hi all,

I've been experimenting with our cluster setup and I have a decent grasp of what we can and can't do with our equipment and I'm about to do a final wipe to our cluster to prep it to replace our vmware servers. I do have a quick question - I think pveceph install by default will install firefly - do those that have tried both firefly and giant, which performs better so far for proxmox?
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I don't see any reason to deploy with firefly at this point in time, it'll just mean you've got to do an upgrade to Giant in the future. We did some performance tests, and at least in our environment didn't see any differences. Giant is supposed to be faster, but we only run with 3 OSDs per pool (ssd & platter) which could explain the lack of difference. Giant has been in production for us for the last 2 months, no issues to report.
 
Awesome, thanks Brad. I really wanted to just install Giant so I didn't have to go through the upgrade process, so good to know it's working. I honestly don't expect a huge performance difference either as I'm dealing with a small number of nodes and OSDs, but if there was some serious issue with running Giant with proxmox, I didn't want to get everything setup to have to redo it again ;)
 
Giant works for me too, never tried Firefly as I didn't see a reason to run an older version just because it was the version at the time Proxmox integrated with Ceph. Giant seems transparent to Proxmox, so in ImHO go with latest Giant :)
 
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