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- Page 1 SUSE Enterprise Storage on HPE Apollo 4200/4500 System Servers Sept 1, 2017 Choosing HPE density-optimized servers as SUSE Enterprise Storage building blocks Reference guide...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
SSD journal usage ................................................................. 12 Choosing hardware ..............................................................13 Bill of materials ..................................................................15 1x HPE Apollo 4510 Gen9 ..........................................................15 1x Apollo 4200 Gen9 System as block storage servers ............................................15 1x ProLiant DL360 Gen10 ..........................................................16 Summary ...................................................................... -
Page 3: Executive Summary
• Can be configured to offer low-cost, low-performance block and file storage in addition to object storage HPE hardware gives you the flexibility to choose the configuration building blocks that are right for your business needs. The HPE Apollo 4000 Gen9 server systems are most suited for the task and allow you to find the right balance between performance, cost-per-gigabyte, building block size, and failure domain size. -
Page 4: Challenges Of Scale
Reference guide Page 4 Traditional infrastructure is costly to scale massively and offers extra performance features that are not needed for cold or warm data. Ceph software defined storage on industry-standard infrastructure is optimized for this use case and is an ideal supplement to existing infrastructure by creating a network-based active archive repository. -
Page 5: Solution Introduction
As video surveillance use grows in commercial, government and private use cases, the need for low-cost, multi-protocol storage is growing rapidly. HPE hardware with SUSE Enterprise Storage provides a platform that is an ideal target for these streams as the various interfaces; iSCSI, S3, and Swift service a wide array of applications. - Page 6 Reference guide Page 6 Cluster roles There are three primary roles in the SUSE Enterprise Storage cluster covered by this sample reference configuration: OSD Host—Ceph server storing object data. Each OSD host runs several instances of the Ceph OSD Daemon process. Each process interacts with one Object Storage Disk (OSD), and for production clusters, there is a 1:1 mapping of OSD Daemon to logical volume.
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Page 7: Solution
Reference guide Page 7 Solution Figure 2: Apollo 4000 reference configuration block diagram SUSE Enterprise Storage v4 SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 based on the Ceph Jewel release includes many new and updated features that accelerate innovation including multi-protocol block, object and filesystem data access capabilities, multisite object replication and asynchronous block mirroring, a new open source management framework. -
Page 8: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Value For A Ceph Storage Environment
Disk encryption In addition to the benefits above, all Apollo 4000 configurations include an HPE Smart Array card capable of secure encryption where enterprise-class encryption is needed. Encryption is FIPS-2—certified for security, has been tested as not affecting IOPS on spinning media for low-performance impact, and is transparent to the operating system for ease-of-use. - Page 9 – Maximum of 1024GB (16 x 64GB) per server tray • OS drive controller/drives – HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i SATA RAID controller (for the two server node SFF drives and M.2 drives.) Optional P244br Smart Array or H244br Smart HBA controller for hardware RAID may be used instead –...
- Page 10 – The Apollo 4200 Gen9 is a 2 RU server that fits in a standard 1075 mm rack – Uses Gen9 HPE Flexible Slot Power Supplies, which provides support for 800 W 48 VDC and 277 VAC environments, in addition to standard AC environments for 800 W and 1400 W Platinum and 800 W Titanium hot-plug power supply kits •...
- Page 11 – Optional HPE iLO Advanced • Cluster Management (optional) – HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU) Figure 4: HPE Apollo 4200 System with large form factor drives; drawer closed Figure 5: HPE Apollo 4200 System with small form factor drives; drawer open...
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Page 12: Configuration Guidance
Reference guide Page 12 Figure 6: HPE Apollo 4200 System rear view with “2 small form factor rear drive cage plus 2 PCIe card expander” option Configuration guidance This section covers how to create a SUSE Enterprise Storage cluster to fit your business needs. The basic strategy of building a cluster is this: with a desired capacity and workload in mind, understand where performance bottlenecks are for the use case, and what failure domains the cluster configuration introduces. -
Page 13: Choosing Hardware
• Peak write performance of spinning media without separate journals is around half due to writes to journal and data partitions going to the same device. • With a single 10GbE port, the bandwidth bottleneck is at the port rather than controller/drive on any fully disk-populated HPE Apollo 4510 Gen9 server node. - Page 14 For a fully disk-populated HPE Apollo 4510 Gen9 with 68 drives, significant CPU cycles must be reserved for 68 OSDs on a single compute node. Configuring RAID 0 volumes across two drives at a time—resulting in 34 OSDs—could reduce CPU usage. Configuring multiple drives in a RAID array can reduce CPU cost for colder storage in exchange for reduced storage efficiency to provide reliability.
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Page 15: Bill Of Materials
Components selected for operational requirements, inter-rack and/or inter-site networking, and service and support can vary significantly per deployment and are complex topics in their own right. Work with your HPE representative to complete the picture and create a SUSE Enterprise Storage cluster that fits all requirements. -
Page 16: Proliant Dl360 Gen10
TCO. All this with no inherent vendor lock-in from the cluster software. This paper shows HPE Apollo 4200 and Apollo 4500 servers as the foundation of a SUSE Enterprise Storage solution for enterprise scale-out storage needs. -
Page 17: Glossary
• Swift—object storage in the open source OpenStack project, used to build clusters of redundant, scalable, distributed object stores. For more information With increased density, efficiency, serviceability, and flexibility, the HPE Apollo 4000 Server family is the perfect solution for scale-out storage needs. To learn more about storage dense servers visit: hpe.com/us/en/servers/hpc-apollo-4000.html. - Page 18 Reference guide Make the right purchase decision. Click here to chat with our presales specialists. Sign up for updates © Copyright 2017 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services.