Question about Setup WAL/DB

Doktorake

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Nov 29, 2018
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Hello,

i have a fairly small(?) cluster with 5 servers each with 5x OSD spinning disk and one SSD for db/wal (each parition size is 30GB).

I'm looking for following changes:

decrease the DB-Size to 15GB

Current: bluestore_block_db_size = 32212254720

Is this safe to do in production? i do not want to mess with the cluster, so im a bit hesitating to change the value for the whole cluster.


The SSD is 240GB big, with the change of db size to 15gb i will have around ~150GB SSD Space left on each Node.
Is it possible to create an SSD-OSD with the remaining space?




What keeps bugging me is: is that separate ssd db really helpful with that low amount of OSDs in cluster? Im thinking of having the db locally on each OSD, completely removing the need for a separate db SSD. the freed up SSD on each node would then server as OSD-Pool for faster performance.

When i remove the DB-Disk, all OSDs will fail in the node correct? but rebuilding them shouldnt be a problem in my 2:3 setup.
 
Anyone?

My biggest concern would be to completely ditch the SSD as DB-Device and make it an OSD for each node.
Is there any documented way to do that?