Hi, I'm just curious to ask if anyone can comment on recent real-world / hands-on experience with Sheepdog baesd storage for their ProxmoxVE 2.0 environment, ie,
- general comment on platform tested:used (ie, SAS disks in HW Raid10, 3 nodes as sheepdog member? SATA disks in HWRaid6, 3 nodes? SATA disks, no raid / only sheepdog replicas for redundancy?
- general stability
- general performance
- general thoughts, suitability for production .. soon .. or still a while before it is solid enough ?
I gather that the current implementation will likely be limited to single-nic connectivity between member nodes for sheepdog traffic, ie, max theoretical throughput of ~100Mb/s approx assuming decent gig-ether network between proxve2 nodes. Although possibly? if you do LACP trunked interfaces for your proxmox node connectivity you get around this 'transparently' (not sure if anyone has tested) ?
I've been reviewing the 'state of things' a bit more in .. other VM platforms .. for similar solutions and was curious again about this for ProxVE. (Maybe is Ceph more or less mature than previously documented? Although I have impression that currently SheepDog seems like better candidate for moving forward here ?)
Any comments:thoughts:insights are certainly most welcome.
Many thanks!
Tim Chipman
- general comment on platform tested:used (ie, SAS disks in HW Raid10, 3 nodes as sheepdog member? SATA disks in HWRaid6, 3 nodes? SATA disks, no raid / only sheepdog replicas for redundancy?
- general stability
- general performance
- general thoughts, suitability for production .. soon .. or still a while before it is solid enough ?
I gather that the current implementation will likely be limited to single-nic connectivity between member nodes for sheepdog traffic, ie, max theoretical throughput of ~100Mb/s approx assuming decent gig-ether network between proxve2 nodes. Although possibly? if you do LACP trunked interfaces for your proxmox node connectivity you get around this 'transparently' (not sure if anyone has tested) ?
I've been reviewing the 'state of things' a bit more in .. other VM platforms .. for similar solutions and was curious again about this for ProxVE. (Maybe is Ceph more or less mature than previously documented? Although I have impression that currently SheepDog seems like better candidate for moving forward here ?)
Any comments:thoughts:insights are certainly most welcome.
Many thanks!
Tim Chipman